Is the U.S. Government the Enemy of the People? America’s Lost Liberties, Post-9/11

Take heed, America. Our losses are mounting with every passing day. What began with the post-9/11 passage of the USA Patriot Act has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse. The rights embodied in the Constitution, which have been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded, are now on life support. Since the towers fell on 9/11, the U.S. government has posed a greater threat to our freedoms than any terrorist, extremist or foreign entity ever could. Indeed, as constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead points out, the U.S. government—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.