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Friday, September 09, 2011

How I'll Remember 9-11 This Year

It’s been a decade since the attacks of 9-11. Since that time, the cost of the American government has more than doubled while American economic output has drastically slowed. Communication and public speech has suffered under the weight of the Patriot Act, and today, most Americans understand that their government tracks them and spies upon them. Travel across this beautiful land has been made more expensive, as fuel and food costs have skyrocketed. The new and wholly un-American Department of Homeland Security has settled in for the long war, apparently against the American people and American traditions of liberty.

A recent Frontline television program outlined the research effort by two reporters at the Washington Post in describing a "Top Secret" America. The real federal jobs program in the last decade has been in surveillance, monitoring, and intelligence-development – of Americans on American soil.

In the decade after 9-11, Washington, D.C. launched repeated land wars, government takeovers, and nation-building, first in Afghanistan, then in Iraq, and later in Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan and now Libya. None of these wars, all sold as "wars against terrorism" were granted any public congressional debate, and none entailed a Congressional declaration of war.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I sat and watched the towers crumble with my aged sick and dying father and this before any of the conspiracy theories the day of the event and he said and I thought it was the drugs or possibly senility " They let this happen...this will be their Pearl Harbor and they will use it to justify anything they want." I was shocked those words from a simple working man and marine of few political views or complexities and seems he was right. Im thankful he was spared to see what has come to pass since.