Abused By Illusions

I thought that this Judge Learned Hand quote from 1944 encapsulated the present situation in our country and perhaps the world rather eloquently.

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. No constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it - Judge Learned Hand, 1944



C.I. Abramson

First they signed onto an illegal war based on lies that has cost us over 1500 American service members. Now, tacked onto an $82B emergency supplemental appropriations bill they give us the Real ID act. It seems that I remember that the reason that Bush and his minions said that the terrorist attacked us is that they hate our freedoms. So is it now their strategy to take those very same freedoms away? Is this those bright boys and girls from the beltway's idea of how they can keep the American people safe? By giving the terrorist what they wanted to begin with? By giving them what they themselves said that the terrorist wanted?

I thought that the United States of America didn't negotiate with terrorist? Or are we beginning to see who it is that really benefits from the fear invoked by the terrorist? Have we been lied to? Are we being lied to? You decide!

C.I. Abramson