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The gulf that is beginning to divide us is taking on the proportions of the Grand Canyon. We are no longer divided along lines of “dissidents” and “conformists.” We are divided along lines of “patriots” and “traitors.”

Curiously, the masters of mass media mind to the wrong foreheads.

According to the media, in order to be a post-Sept. 11 patriot, you must believe that the Civil War was fought over slavery and that all other references to historical and contemporary events, as job function email list taught in public schools and as reported in the dominant media, are accurate and unbiased. To be a post-Sept. 11 patriot, you must unquestioningly believe the government and its media mouthpieces and follow their dictates blindly. It would seem that such blind acceptance of information, much of which is contrary to the founding principles of our nation that defined the relationships between people and government, is a betrayal of those principles and tantamount to treason.

Those who have studied our history beyond what we were taught in school and have, therefore, learned how to more accurately assess the real meaning behind current events, are denigrated as traitors. Is it not one's patriotic responsibility to question the motives behind the government's retaliatory response to the events of Sept. 11? Is it not our patriotic duty to resist the unconstitutional police state that is being erected here at home?