I must confess up until today I could not have named one person who was killed on 9/11. I could not give you the name of one of the acting terrorist. However, I have not forgotten Osama Bin Laden and the havoc he has rained down on our country. The cost is now over 3 trillion dollars! It looks like his death is going to create more havoc with our freedom and security.
Since 9/11 we have been engaged in a Muslim war in Iraq and Afghanistan at a cost in lives of our young men and women which cannot be replaced. The marriages of those in the military are falling apart at an alarming rates--divorce is on the rise. The financial losses many retired American suffered after 9/11 will never be recovered. The personal freedoms we once enjoyed are gone-- maybe forever. Through the enactment of the USA PATRIOT Act and subsequent executive directives and regulations, essential rights and freedoms that were once guaranteed to all individuals have been lost. Many Americans still do not realize the significance of what we have lost from Bin Laden.
There was a time in America where we could speak our mind. Today, government agents can monitor activities of religious and political institutions, and then infiltrate these groups with no suspicion of criminal activity. This is a return to domestic spying on law-abiding religious and political groups. You can be the subject of a government investigation simply because of the political, activist, or advocacy groups you are involved in, or the statements you make within these groups. Your freedom of speech has been limited to what the government will permit.
Authorities may now conduct secret searches and wiretaps in your home or office without showing "probable cause." They need only to claim that intelligence gathering is "a significant purpose" of their intrusion, even when the primary goal is ordinary law enforcement. They may also monitor where and to whom you send and receive e-mail, or where you go on the Internet, recording every e-mail address and website you have been in contact with. Authorities may now demand any personal records held by any source including your doctor, employer, accountant, or library. All they have to do is claim that it is related to an investigation into "terrorism." The record keepers may not reveal that your records were provided to the government.
For those who travel by air, freedom has been reduced, here are some highly publicized incidents around the screening procedures:
- A breast cancer survivor was forced to remove her prosthetic breast
- A bladder cancer survivor had his urostomy bag seal broken during a pat-down, leaving him soaked in urine.
- A woman with a hip replacement was singled out for pat down.
- A rape survivor was distressed by a pat-down that she described as feeling like being sexually assaulted again.
- A 3-year-old child was distressed by surrendering her teddy bear and being subject to a pat-down.
- An eight-year-old boy was patted down on his genital area.
- A woman claims that she was selected for additional screening by a male TSA worker for the size of her breasts.
- A four-year-old boy was on his way to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., with his parents when TSA agents forced him to take off his leg braces.
Do these individuals sound like terrorist? I don’t think so. These are the freedoms we have lost because of Bin Laden. There are those who would discredit the premise that Muslims are the main reason we have lost our freedoms. It is hard to deny the driving force behind the loss of our freedoms is tied directly to the Muslims. There are those who would deny Bin Laden was a true Muslim—but he was. When will we stop allowing our freedoms to be taken from us?
We as American, continue to fund the terrorist with our dependence on foreign oil. As the price of oil goes up many Americans will have to make financial decisions like – do I keep my home or do I eat. Maybe we need to start using our own oil.
America is in the worst recession since the 1930s and we seem to have billions to spend on mosque building in 27 Muslim countries. I don’t know of a Muslim ruled country that doesn’t have massive oil wealth and plenty of money already to build or renovate their own mosques! What happened to separation of church and state? This is nothing less than stealing from the American people at a time when millions are losing their homes jobs and careers! We should be shutting down these houses of hate instead of rebuilding them.
Our State Department is worried about our image in Muslim countries while the goodwill and freedom of the American citizen is of no concern. Bin Laden even in his death will continue to destroy the American way of life and reduce our freedoms. Am I glad he is dead? I don’t know. What excuse will be used now that he is dead to reduce our freedoms? What concessions will we give to appease the Muslims? Do I hate Muslims? No, I just know there is a better way of life than being filled with hate. Has American been in the wrong in Muslim countries? There is no doubt we have taken the lives of many innocent people, destroyed towns and cities and are continuing to do so. If we are so bad why do Muslim leaders continue to ask us to stay? Why do they continue to take our money? I feel it is time that we allow the Muslims who are fighting Muslims to fight their own wars and America stop funding both sides.
Well, I have rambled long enough. It’s time to take back America from the leaders of this country who are more concerned about what the Muslim world thinks than what the American citizens think.
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