Home of the brave? That's how the song goes but now how we live.
Certainly since 9/11, we have largely done as we are told. TSA agents fairly strip and humiliate us per air trip, all without reason or evidence they keep anything safe. Police forces from the tiniest towns load up on military surplus murder machinery way out of proportion to any past or predictable threats. Local cops have swung from serve and protect to badger, bully and brutalize.
More astonishing even is how many allegedly brace Americans call for or demand obeisance to out-of-control police. Check out the comments in even allegedly left-leaning rags on Darren Wilson and Michael Brown. Most comments are along the line of Brown deserved everything he got (even 12 bullets because he may not have blindly obeyed Wilson immediately.
That's not the America we boomers grew up in or the one our parents fought World War II to save.
Let's talk about what has happened to our nation that has led us to blindly submit to irra
