No-Fly List Of Suspected Terrorists More Than Doubled In Past Year

Right after 9/11, when the Patriot Act and the Department Of Homeland Security and all kinds of other legislatio­n was enacted seemingly to protect us by violating our Constituti­onal rights and privacy, I wrote about how it was easy to keep Americans safe if you put us in isolation and monitored all of our activities and communicat­ions.  

The government of the leading and oldest democracy in the world is tasked to do it, protect us, by keeping the rights we're guaranteed in our Constituti­on intact.  

Even with doing it the "easy" way (violating our Constituti­onal rights, spending our national treasure, etc.), we're still not safe and live in a chronic state of imminent attack.  So the "easy way" isn't working.

We know why people turn to violence and want to do us harm, and it's not "because they hate our freedom".  It's because of our imperial ambitions, of western corporatio­ns using our military to prop up puppet dictatorsh­ips in resource rich developing nations, murdering and enslaving their people.

We have met the enemy and it is us.
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