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Whatever you think about the events on 9/11 one thing is for certain, our civil liberties have never been more at risk. Anyone who thinks otherwise hasnt been paying any attention to whats going on inside our own country and numbly accepting what the gov't is pushing on us as neccessary for our "national security". Hitler did the same things as the nazi party rose to power. Creating a notion of "the homeland" that needed protecting, fostering ideas that peoples lives in other countries (and within their own country) we not as important as others, creating paramilitary groups that didnt have to report directly to the gov't the way traditional millitaries do (see Blackwater)...etc.
Im not saying that our country is going to end up going down the path of Nazi Germany, but we as Americans have a DUTY to keep an eye on what our gov't is doing and to say otherwise is the most unpatriotic bullshit... It just makes me so angry to see people who live in this country and just think that men in power will always do the right thing and never lead us astray... a theory with NO historical evidence whatsoever.
The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. - John Adams