Post 9/11 America

Ground Zero, New York, NY

Post 9/11 America is a country the Founding Fathers would not recognize. Thomas Jefferson would undoubtedly declare it was time for the “tree of liberty [to be] refreshed.”

Sad to say, Post 9/11 America is a country where one no longer enjoys a right to privacy (conversations are recorded and virtual and real movements are tracked – George Orwell’s 1984 has been realized), the system of “justice” is rigged such that the outcome is predetermined, “choices” are imposed with threats of punishment, an over militarized police force carries out extra judicial race-based executions with impunity, religious liberty is under attack, the press is intimidated and threatened, people are profiled, immigrants are viewed with suspicion (if not outright contempt), the constitution is an archaic relic that is ignored, and egregious acts of systematic torture are committed to supposedly protect lives and protect national security! These appalling crimes against humanity are UNACCEPTABLE and can NEVER be JUSTIFED under any circumstances!

This is not the America that had once served as a moral beacon for the world and land of opportunity. It is not the country I grew up loving. Hopefully the latest disclosures will be a catalyst for constructive reform, positive change, restored liberty and the establishment of a system of impartial, equitable justice.

To be silent is to be an accessory. To be silent is to share the same guilt of the many good people in Germany who were either too afraid or apathetic to protest and condemn the evils of the Nazi regime of not even a hundred years ago. To be silent is to encourage further encroachments against individual freedom, additional acts of injustice and even greater crimes against humanity. May my collage cry out and condemn these un-American, treacherous evils!