Its limitless expanses and endless possibilities are a natural symbol. And it has crumbled. With the coming of conflict, the destruction of sacred rights of freedom are challenged more directly than ever before. Our sky of freedom is being caged by the unreal constraints of paranoid lawmakers. At every turn, frightened politicians seek to take our liberties in the name of security.
Security agencies detain foreigners for no reason except that they look suspicious.
First our music, and then our presses. The planes and the missiles and the bombs have hit more than just our girders and our windows and our stone. They have struck not only our buildings, at a cost that seems almost greater than we can bear, but have traveled deeper, striking the very core of our existence. In the end, it was a target that no amount of steel or glass or stone or bullets would have protected. Terror has rained from the skies, and now we seek to right ourselves, adrift in a sea of blood.