Six years ago today, I was driving to work and listening to music on the radio. The broadcast was interrupted to report that a jetliner had just crashed into the Pentagon. I was stunned. When I got to the office, I learned that planes had also hit the World Trade Center in New York. Then, another plane went down in Pennsylvania.
We remember well the horror of that day. We were angry, confused, and fearful all at the same time. We weren't sure who had done this, or why.
Eventually, the truth came out, and we responded. We reacted militarily in Afghanistan and legislatively in Congress. To their everlasting shame, our elected representatives ignored their oaths to uphold the Constitution of the United States and passed the Patriot Act.
Certainly, there were some new security measures called for. That is not in dispute. But to trample on the liberty our true patriots gave their lives for and call it "The Patriot Act" was an outrage.
Our nation's true patriots bravely faced certain danger and risk of their lives. But they were willing to do so because they believed in the freedoms we were privileged to inherit. The people who attacked us on September 11, 2001 hate our way of life and its freedoms. They are determined to destroy our liberty. The legislative and executive branches of our government have cowardly and unwittingly joined forces with those who would destroy our freedoms and had the audacity to label it patriotism. God deliver me from "patriots" such as these!
It is past time for our elected leaders to find again the courage they lost and to once more stand up for liberty. Yes, there is risk. But then Patrick Henry, Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a host of others faced more certain risk. Many gave their lives. We do these true patriots no honor to name freedom robbing legislation after them.
That's my two cents.
Wade Houston
September 11, 2007
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