If you’re an American, you’ve been robbed. 19 foreign hijackers killed more than 2000 people on September 11, 2001, but our own elected representatives; our own countrymen have robbed us of many of our freedoms. You might not know it, you might not feel it, but we’ve lost several freedoms in the name of national security.
The hijackers opened the door for those who may legitimately want to make us safer to remove free speech and due process from the Constitution. Those things tend to get in the way of fighting terrorism. It’s so much easier to fight terrorism when you don’t have any nasty rules to follow.
What if those making up the rules decide that you or your group aren’t “American” enough or are undesirable in some way and decide to remove you from American society? Who would do something like that? Who would carry out genocide or any other form of cleansing in this country? It can’t happen here. Sure it can. Get some Pat Robertson wannabe in the White House and you’ll see purges on the scale of Hitler and Stalin. Don’t think you’re safe because you’re part of the “Christian Right” either. They’ll decide that if you believe in pre-tribulation rapture you’re a heretic, or maybe you don’t believe baptism is required for salvation and you’ll be out too.
Don’t believe me? Don’t think we’ve lost much? That’s fine. Read this article and see what you’ve lost already. If you’re interested, you can read the book Namoi Wolf wrote on the subject. You don’t have to call yourself a liberal to be alarmed; you just need to be an American who believed our founding fathers created the greatest system in the world. It’s ironic that we successfully defended our Constitution and way of life against the most powerful armies on Earth only to willingly give it away in response to an attack by 19 guys.
