I figured I should stop posting stuff in other people's comments section and just write a blog of my own.

To tone things down a bit from my acidic posting in Sam's blog, 9-11 is a sad, sad day. As it was describe before two years ago in the press, this day will forever be the 'Pearl Harbor' of almost every self-aware person alive. It's shocking to think that nothing will ever erase what this day comes to mean for the American psyche.

I heard a story on NPR this evening about a government employee who was the only person in his office of 7 to survive the Pentagon attack. He explained that before 9-11 he and another co-worker, someone he described as a very good friend, would go out for dinner every TH night. When that plane slammed into the Pentagon his friend died. It’s these little thing that made this day so sad. No amount of wars, arrests, foiled attacks, or revisions to the Patriot Act will allow this man to have another dinner with his friend. And I find that upsetting, because it is something you can't control. This to me is the most frightening thing about post 9-11 life. I can't control if a terrorist is going force another plane into a building, poison the water supply, or fill the air with a deadly chemical.

I guess that is what the Patriot Act is supposed to pre-empt. However, everything I read is about how the government is harassing some naturalized citizen because he refused to spy on his immigrated Middle-East community here in Anytown USA. To me that doesn't seem like progress, just a bunch of shots in the dark with a media spin.

So, for right now, at two years after thousands of people died, I say the terrorist won because look what our American government is reduced to: crushing the some innocent minority's dream of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness so the majority to can sleep easy at night. That is until the next time the government issues a non-specific terror warning. Maybe in five or ten years, I can feel like the American government is setting the right example of how to treat ALL the people that live. Only then will I say that America won.

Muslims Complain of Pressure to Inform
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1427735

Three People Reflect on Changes Since Sept. 11
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1428335