This is where fear leads us

Broad new surveillance powers approved by Congress this month could allow the Bush administration to conduct spy operations that go well beyond wiretapping to include - without court approval - certain types of physical searches of U.S. citizens and the collection of their business records.

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~ Dick Cheney

so there you go... your liberty is slowly and systematically eroded. And we are not one iota safer than we were on 9-11. Au contraire.....