Lessons

On this date seven years ago, our government became preoccupied with threat (imagined and otherwise), adrift in paranoia, eager for war, and quick to betray many of the most important legal and moral principles this country stands for. All in the name of "security," and almost to the exclusion of all else.

That, to me, for those of us with only a tenuous or indirect connection to the events of that day, is what must never be forgotten. We will have to live with the consequences of those actions for many years to come.