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"Remembering what we lost on 9/11 ? and what we threw away thereafter"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Remembering what we lost on 9/11 — and what we threw away thereafter, Blog on the Run: Reloaded by Lex Alexander: On most anniversaries of the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and Flight 77, I have been much more about sorrow than anger. Not today. Today I’m pissed. A recent confluence of events is emerging into a mosaic that depicts the destruction of some of what’s most valuable about America. Our Fourth Amendment in particular, and many of our essential rights in general, are under attack by our own government at all levels by officials of both major parties My own short reflection is similar. We have up more rights to be "safe" than I could ever imagine. Then the technology boom joined in. Ben Franklin said, depending on the source, "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on September 11, 2010 (boomark / email).