Bin Laden's Legacy, Or Ours ???

Some thoughts from The Rutherford Institute on this 20th anniversary of 9/11:

"I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life."

Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported by CNN

What a strange and harrowing road we’ve walked since September 11, 2001, littered with the debris of our once-vaunted liberties. We have gone from a nation that took great pride in being a model of a representative democracy to being a model of how to persuade a freedom-loving people to march in lockstep with a police state.

Source - https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_rise_of_the_security_industrial_complex_from_9_11_to_covid_19

I suppose we still could blame all of this on Osama bin Laden, but in reality we did it to ourselves. And if we had stopped to THINK about what we were doing 20 years ago (or even 100), much of this would not have happened.

You may believe it's too late to do anything about it, but I say better late than never.