It Can Happen To You: First They Came for the Muslims

What began amidst the swirling ash and rubble of the Twin Towers has avalanched to this point. Through tear clouded eyes we watched the Bush Administration take from us our right to free speech, our right to privacy, our right to habeas corpus, even our right to freedom from torture. With each new demand we assented, promised that this would keep us safer, this would protect our families, our children, our very lives from those that seek to destroy our way of life.

Yet for Donald Vance it was not a terrorist with a box-cutter or a bomb-belt that destroyed his way of life, it was the government he trusted, served, and believed in.