Edited by author 12-23-2002 09:25 AM
Cory: in whose interest, exactly, is it to "roast civil liberties on a pyre of the smouldering 9-11 dead?"

As Robert pointed out, it's a little over a year after the 9/11 massacres, and we're still in crisis mode.

Which is more likely: some Freemason-like cabal somewhere, ready to go at a moment's notice with a carefully pre-coordinated plan to strip us of liberty, or a vast, slow-moving bureaucracy that, when prompted by circumstance to react quickly, produces something sloppy and ill-considered?

The beauty of the American system of government is its ability to fix itself, which in turn is largely the result of the citizenry's ability to complain about things they don't like. I'm not saying that the legislation passed in the wake of Septermber 11 is perfectly acceptable, but your rhetoric seems to assign sinister motives where, I think, none exist.