It's September 11, 2008. Seven years since the worst terrorist attack that ever happened on U.S. soil. On this day we remember where we were when we heard the news, we hear the numbers of people that died that day, but the damage that was done that day didn't end on that day, in fact it continues as I write this and goes unnoticed or at least unspoken by the media.
A shocked nation watched the horror unfold in front of them, and in the days immediately following the attacks most of the nation, including myself, thought that the president was taking appropriate action. It wasn't long though before some of us started seeing that the attacks had destroyed more than lives and buildings. That day marked the day that our rights started being taken away from us. U.S. Patriot Act, which stated that somebody that was SUSPECTED of being an enemy combatant could be detained indefinitely without bail or trial was introduced by the president and passed by congress. Your house could be searched and your phone could be tapped without a warrant. Some of us started to wake up at that point, but the media said nothing.
Then Congress gave the president a rubber stamp to invade a country that was no threat to us. A country that we still are fighting in that we have lost over 4,000 service men and women in that war. Some more of us started to wake up, but the media still said nothing.
Some of the ones that woke up wanted to be heard, but found that now if you had an opposing view point, it could only be said in a "Free Speech Zone", which was well away from where you could be heard. I thought that as an American in
Now the Executive branch has extended its power well beyond what was ever intended by our founding fathers, and congress for the most part has stood idly by while all of this has taken place and the news media looks the other way, or worse, actually helps the current administration lie to the people, who swallow the lies without question because they don't want to seem unpatriotic.
The "Smear and Fear" tactics that are being use by the Republican Party to try and keep the power that they have are basically terrorist tactics. They try to convince the people that they are the only ones that can keep the terrorist at bay, and that the other candidate, by the sound of his name, may even be a terrorist. They want to make the American people afraid to vote for anybody but them.
Foreign terrorist attacked us seven years ago today, but they didn't drag down our economy or take away our freedoms, we let the domestic terrorist do that.
