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My condolences to the Mayfield family for having had to endure such a travesty of misplaced suspicion, especially since it was foisted on them by their own country's government.
However, I thank all deities that Mayfield is a lawyer; if this had to happen to an American, our entire country is blessed that it happened to one of its better educated patriots.
Our most heroic citizens may well be those ordinary people who survive the first blow landed by servants of their own government when that government no longer serves those ordinary people who by right hold the reins of that government. Brandon Mayfield and his family have suffered a peculiar sort of terror at the hands of this government and by surviving the initial hit, Brandon has become a true American hero, someone to whom we can actually look for inspiration in a time when there is a scarcity of heroes (unless one's only acceptable definition of the word is a person trained to kill foreigners).
What is necessary now is for a critical mass of his fellow citizens to stand behind Mayfield, to emulate his example, and to "tear this building down."
It's time. Mayfield has created a crack so the light can get back in. The rest of us owe it to him and to ourselves use this crack to shatter the wall which has been erected around us.
Thank you Brandon Mayfield, for being a true American, and thank you Garrett Epps, for throwing some light on this proof that we are, indeed, right to love our country but fear our government - and to replace that government. Now.
All pretenders to the Presidency ought to take notice of this change in the weather.
