Are we the language that we speak, or a religion whose rituals we observe, or the flag that has flown over the lands we have fought for, or are we about Truth and Justice and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights of the Democracy We the People have created?
For centuries we have been the Nation which stood for Principles. Those principles do not include kidnapping, torture, murder, holding without rendition or warrantless surveilance. They include the sentiments cast in the base of the Statue of Liberty.
We are not a nation of secretive cowards seeking the dark corners rather than the wide open spaces. It is cowardly to erect as a monument to security a Great Wall of Fear to keep people either in or out, with us or against us.
Let us put it to all the gods of men, all the great principles of truth, justice, beauty, wisdom, what is right and proper, whether they are allied with us in this endeavor. The winds blow down our cities and the seas rise up against us. The fire rages in our praries and forests and even the earth quakes in consternation that all the rules of heaven have been trodden down in our rape of Mother Nature. The gods have spoken!
Mr. Bush!!! Tear Down this wall!!!