911

I remember exactly where I was when I heard a scream and "Come Quickly". Several of my staff went out to the production booth and watched the horror unfold...just in time to watch the second tower fall. I was stunned, confused and angry. I remember the flood of calls and the desire to be with my family. The church was filled that weekend as people cried out to God to make some sense of it all, to be comforted. It seems so long ago now and yet our world is still shaped by those events. The airport security, the border tightening, the news of war and death everyday...and Osama Bin Laden speaking out against America. Ben Laden has recently said that America is not a Democracy because it is big business that runs congress, he said the american people have no voice because we voted in Democrats to end the war and the Democrats don't have the collective will because ending the war is not in the best interest of the lobbyist...What scairs me the most is I agree with him on those points. When corruption and deceit are what we expect from our leaders in creates cynicism... And then words of the Declaration of Independence ring loudly in my ear "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." The Men who wrote this are called Patriots!