Since 9/11 the U.S. government had enacted a number of major and far-reaching laws and taken administrative actions all in the name of national security and the ‘war on terror.’ The net results of these actions, when looked at as a total package, are that Americans’ basic freedoms have been eroded to the point that in many areas we are no longer ‘the land of the free’. In some cases, citizens of some unlikely nations - countries that our government criticizes and in some case sanctions for civil rights abuses – are better off legally than U.S. citizens.
I have posted a special article on this subject on my other blog, 'The View From Here'. To read 'America - The Land Of The Free?" just click on the link on the left called 'Hot Topics'
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