Hurray! The country will be safe now that we can hold people without evidence and torture them. Sure mistakes will be made, but there is a war. As for those innocents of Arab descent who get sent to Syria and beaten with a cable for months until we are sure they are innocent, well that's the price of freedom these days. Everything changed with 911, right?

What seems to have changed is that America stopped being America. The desire for safety has overrun the desire for freedom. Our safety has never been more in jeopardy than it will be from the generations of hatred that has been stirred by the war on terror. Be afraid! That's true enough. Be afraid of the government. The new government has the power to steal elections. It is in the process of dissolving the Constitution. It is beating back any two party system. Soon there will only be Republicans and terrorist sympathizers. Everyone should ask themselves, when I get deported, what country will they send me to?