Interesting read. As someone who had just turned 20 around the time of 9/11 and was in college in upper Manhattan at the time, I went along with all of the "Patriot Act" nonsense because I was angry and because I didn't yet fully understand what happens when you give the government more power. It never gives it up and it almost always ends up abusing it.

I think a lot of people regret their support for the various responses to 9/11. Hopefully that means that we (in the immortal words of The Who) won't get fooled again.