I don't feel safe these days. It isn't about crime or terrorism. it isn't about the war or aging airplanes. It isn't about killer bees or bird flu. It isn't about road rage or illegal aliens crowding into our cities. It isn't about gangs or drugs or other such things.

I don't feel safe anymore because I don't feel free. The country I grew up in is not the same country I am living in today. When I was a kid and in fact most of my adult life, I never feared speaking out. It was one of the privilages guaranteed by the constitution. But that was then. Today, I read about people being arrested for protesting or placing protest flyers up in public. These are quiet people protesting quietly. I read where one college student was expelled because he turned his back when the president walked onto the stage. What is so bad about that? What is so wrong with the student's right to protest?

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