Patriot Act

Creating a free society requires that the statesmen involved take positive steps to ensure rights of privacy and due process; liberty cannot exist without these components. To wrench these things from the hands of an oppressor takes the sacrifice of many lives. The price of liberty is always high and paid for in blood. So it was with our country, 230 years ago.

As long as the principles of liberty are in place, the society is strong and nearly impervious to destruction. Liberty breeds courage and courageous people are not easily repressed or conquered.

To destroy a free society an enemy must start a sequence of events that shakes courage and causes the foundations of freedom to buckle and collapse. This is usually done with the help of the populace who, in their quest for safety and security, abandon the risks and duties associated with living free. Threatened, they attempt to buy back peace-of- mind using their freedom as collateral.

The destroyer need only wait for a time when the populace is complacent and then damage the public courage with a sudden, frightening act. After that, he then waits for the governmental reaction that will start the process of weakening the structure. Soon, the inevitable collapse begins.

Sounds like the scenario for 9/11 doesn’t it?

Government interests are a key factor considered by the attacker. Using the natural tendency of governments to control their citizens and abridge civil liberties in times of peril, the aggressor fans the flames of fear in order to hasten the collapse.

Usually, a second attack is not required, just the threat of one.

Public paranoia builds, politicians respond, Lady Liberty screams, the terrorist is delighted.

Terrorists have proven that they were tactically adept enough to use this exact scenario in the destruction of two buildings, why would they not use it on our society as a whole?

Why does it appear that we are helping them? Giving up freedom for supposed security is exactly the reaction the terrorists were hoping for. The destruction of the two buildings was secondary to the real objective: to change the American way of life and start the collapse of our society.

Is the loss of freedom proposed in the “Patriot Act” a viable or necessary trade-off or is it the first plane flown into the side of our liberty?