60 years ago, the most terrible thought an American could have conjured was one of having to live in an America under the fist of a terrible tyrant of the Red Chinese or Soviets, and we built large stockpiles of nuclear weapons promising total world destruction rather than live in a world where we would give up freedom.
Today, the most terrible thing an American can think of is destruction, and would rather live under the fist of a tyrant than face attack. We've come 180 degrees.
Where once our forefathers would have rather blown themselves up in an instant to protect the ideals of freedom, we cower in our houses with our duct tape and plastic sheeting and hope that Tom Ridge and John Ashcroft will protect us from the great
We forget that when we leave the job of protecting freedom in the hands of a few people, like Ashcroft, Ridge, Cheney, and Bush, and we don't do it ourselves, we endanger ourselves and we enslave our children and their children's children. Once the tyrants have won, and there's nowhere to go, there will never be anywhere to go again.
And that is only more true today than it was 60 years ago, when men of good conscience favored destruction of all that was good, over inescapable tryanny, no matter whose tyranny.
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