As I shuffled through my daily routine for the remainder of that week and heard news of airports resuming traffic under enormously tightened security, I wondered to myself something then that is still very much on my mind today: will the freedom and diversity that have made the United States a shining light amongst the other countries of the world be put on the chopping block because of the events of September 11th? There is no

It is things like this that make me wonder how Americans will react to the policies that have and will undoubtedly be put in place in regards to September 11th, 2001. It is my personal fear that the people of this country will be slowly led to accept policy that at first seems little more than a series of reasonable inconveniences - a fair trade for the reassurance that such terrorist events won't happen on American soil again - without stepping back and examining exactly what core values and principles of the American ideal are being sacrificed in the process. Beyond technological advancement, America offers a set of enriching freedoms that are available nowhere else on earth. These freedoms have nurtured what is arguably one of the most prosperous economies in this history of mankind, and has provided the highest standard of living available to anyone on earth. To sacrifice those values, whether suddenly or over a long period of time, would be

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