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In
front of the Federal Building in the heart of downtown Kalamazoo,
this pedestal had the Bill of Rights posted onto it. Now they are missing.
this pedestal had the Bill of Rights posted onto it. Now they are missing.
How
emblematic of where this country is going, given our government's
recent wrangle over the debt ceiling (something most Americans never
heard of), the undeclared wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya,
right-wing attacks on unions, immigrants, public schools--not to mention
the protection of the richest one percent of Americans at the sacrifice
of the other 99 percent..
In
2003 during the beginning of the war with Iraq, a local civil liberties
lawyer stood at this monument and pointed out each Amendments that had
been dismissed by the Bush administration. Now, as we prepare to
recognize the tenth anniversary of September 11, we seem to have lost
all of them.
