Post 9/11 America has become the land of the fearful
"There is something sinister in the term Homeland Security. Homeland sounds a little too like Fatherland for comfort, a place demanding unthinking loyalty. Very un-American, one might imagine, but then Americans are not as free-wheeling as they like to think they are. Most of them like rules, enforced with a brand of passive aggression all the more unsettling for being delivered with a smile as bright as it is indifferent.
They don’t even manage the smile at JFK when you hand over your passport. Well, some do. Things have lightened a little since the early post 9/11 era when any foreigner was an object of suspicion. The Orwellian technology remains, however: the fingerprint scanner and camera, adding you to some vast, churning database, and increasingly for those boarding flights in the United States, the hugely intrusive whole-body scanner. Land of the Free-ish."
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Pro-Truth Comments being allowed on this as well.
The following articles are allowing pro-truth comments. Give it one more push on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/09/911-truthers-to-tone-protests-down-for-a-day/
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/here-comes-trouble-michael-moore-book
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/september-11-attacks/8753097/Post-911-America-has-become-the-land-of-the-fearful...