by Roxanne Cottell

Created on: October 02, 2008

I am pretty sure that I am not going to do anything stupid with my laptop that does not have to do with myspace and a camera.

Freedom is something that we should all value more than gold. Freedom of expression is our birthrite. I don't like politics much, but any dummy can see that this current administration has taken great pains to scare the hell out of the majority of us while managing to use our fears against us. They went on the hunt for WMD's, and thus far the only WMD they have managed to dig up is our own ability to fear the unknown. We Americans love to be prepared for anything and everything. What we were not prepared for was that one heinous act against us all. Now look at us. We are IN a recession right now. I don't care how many times the president tells us that we are headed from one - that guy does not have to worry about losing his home, his job, his family and his sanity. All he has to worry about is not screwing up yet one more speech.

When did it become OK with the majority of people in this country to exchange our precious freedoms for a false sense of security?

It is an EGREGIOUS sin for any person to even suggest that an airport security employee is going to be safer than I will be with my laptop.I am pretty sure that no one is worried about what I have stored in my files, and it is none of their damned business anyway. What is in my laptop is nothing illegal, is nothing threatening, and is nothing for us to go completely code red. What is in my laptop is my business and not that of a nosey bunch of Washington morons who like to tell me what is best for me, no matter how many times I let them know that I am alergic to their sense of reality- it makes me itch.

I felt violated from the moment I saw the first plane hit the tower, and instead of making me secure, making you secure, making us all secure, our adminstration made it so that we would wallow in the miry depths of uncertainty and call it Homeland Security. We have allowed these people access to not just our rights to freedom of expression, but we have handed over to them our very lives and said "OK, you can tax me until I am begging for the whip and the ball gag," thrown our hands up in the air, and decided that what someone else thought was OK for the few would apply to the many.

WELL IT ISN'T and because of those few, the majority now suffers.

When was it that we would dare to wear the badge of honor and integrity, and then decide that the color of fear looked so much better on us all?

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