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Nelson Minar
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There's an excellent
opinion piece in the SF Chron today about how fear of terrorism
has changed
Washington DC. Open government and accessibility used to be considered
important democractic values in the US, but now everything is locked
away. Do we even recognize what's been lost?
Today, much of this beguiling traditional democratic American openness
has been rudely swept away, possibly never to return. And the nation
once known as "the land of the free and the home of the brave" seems
both less free and less brave.
But one thing is certain: Washington today is a heavily armed, hunkered- down capital. The city on the Potomac appears to be a city under siege. Congress has allocated more than $600 million for increased security for the capital. Update 2004-07-19: Tom Bridge, who lives in
the DC area, has posted a rebuttal
to the SF Chron piece.
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