A disturbing article from today's San Francisco Chronicle on preparations to suspend civil liberties in the wake of terrorist attack:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/11/TERROR.TMP
If Al Qaeda succeeds in a nuclear attack, we lose the Bill of Rights. Of course, we've already effectively lost the 4th Amendment. It's shocking to me, though, to read about about people meeting to actually plan what rights to take away in the wake of an attack.
If such a bomb does go off ... how can we be sure it wasn't intentionally set by those who stand to gain from the loss of our civil rights?
It took Winston Smith a while to figure out that the rocket bombs falling on the cities of Oceania were launched from within Oceania. Let's hope we learn from this.