The politics of our nation since 9/11 have been the politics of fear. Because of fear that one of us is a terrorist, we allowed our intelligence services to listen into our private conversations; because of fear of terrorists from abroad, we murdered millions of innocent people in the Middle-East; because of fear that our planes will be hijacked, we let government agents put their hands on our children's crotches and look at our naked bodies, and now, because of the fear of viruses, we allowed our government to unlawfully detain us in our homes, close our businesses, and abrogate many of our most important Rights. None of feels very brave or free. None of this feels very American. And what disappoints me the most is how slovenly my fellow Americans have accepted it all, without a fight.

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