We're Not Free Anymore

Totalitarian paranoia runs, deep in American society, and it now inhabits the highest levels of government...Since the terrorist attacks of 9/1 1, America has succumbed to a form of historical amnesia fed by a culture of fear, militarization and precarity. Relegated to the dustbin of organized forgetting were the long-standing abuses carried out by America's intelligence agencies and the public's long-standing distrust of the FBI, government wiretaps and police actions that threatened privacy rights, civil liberties and those freedoms fundamental to a democracy. 

—Professor HENRY GIROUX