As Americans mark the 19th anniversary of the attack on the Twin Towers, most likely the furthest thing from their minds is the breadth of freedoms they’ve lost in the years since. In a poignant essay, Constitutional attorney John Whitehead lists the assaults on this country’s freedoms that began with 9/11.
From the passage of the Patriot Act, which Whitehead says laid the groundwork for eradicating Constitutional freedom protections, to lockdowns, mask mandates, surveillance, snitch lines for Americans to report their fellow citizens for engaging in risky behavior, and veiled threats of forced vaccinations, the assaults have piled up, one on top of the other.
The results are the loss of “free speech, the right to protest, the right to challenge government wrongdoing, due process, a presumption of innocence, the right to self-defense, accountability and transparency in government, privacy, press, sovereignty, assembly, bodily integrity [and] representative government.”
In essence, he says, “the government that was supposed to be a ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’ has become the enemy of the people.”
SOURCE: The Rutherford Institute September 8, 2020