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by Tom Rose

1. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were made possible by a government that has disarmed its citizens. We know for sure that some persons on at least one of the hijacked planes futilely attempted to overpower the terrorists, according to a number of cell-phone communications, but they were unable because they were unarmed. Just one armed passenger might have prevented a plane from being hijacked.
2. The reason why so many foreigners hate America is our often misguided, unconstitutional foreign policy of intervention in the affairs of other nations.
3. The long history of foreign wars that America has been engaged in shows that American political leaders are capable of deceiving and lying to the American public to further both their war and domestic agendas. Therefore, American citizens should not accept uncritically all that they are told and beware of false propaganda.
4. History has shown that war tends to an increase in government authority and control. The Constitution of the United States and it protections of civil liberty must not be set aside for the sake of fighting terrorism.
5. Great sophistication was needed to successfully pull off the terrorist attack, a sophistication that independent terrorists probably lack. We must carefully investigate all possible involvement by hostile regimes, and even by those that claim to be our friends.
6. Civil rulers invariably turn to increasing their own power at the level of central government to solve problems, but this is, more often than not, the source of most problems in the first place. The better strategy is to follow the practice of decentralization in order to return more freedom, more self-responsibility, and more power to the people. As a result of the tragedy, we must see, for example, that it is our government policy of disarming citizens which made the four airliners susceptible to being hijacked. How many lives of Americans might have been saved if some passengers had been armed?

Tom Rose owns and operates with his wife, Ruth, American Enterprise Publications, 177 N. Spring Rd, Mercer, PA 16137; web site: www.biblicaleconomics.net

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