“Feeling the bootheel of the Patriot Act” is an especially disturbing—and revealing—first-person account of life under Homeland Security. Jason Halperin is a resident of New York City, and you just have to wonder why this piece made it into one Times—the Los Angeles Times— but not the other.
Imagine siting down to a meal at a midtown Manhattan restaurant and becoming the target of a roust by five bullet-proof-vested cops with guns drawn and fingers on triggers. The roust turns out to be a mistake, but that’s not known until days later. After the cops come the suits from Immigration and Naturalization and Homeland Security.
Such is life in the new America, thanks to a spineless Congress. Because, after all, “we’re at war….”
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