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"The greater one's physical or emotional proximity to the attacks, the greater is the danger that one will seek excessively to empower and submit to government authority and cheer for destructive counter-measures which allow few, if any, limits."-- Glenn Greenwald
I actually found it bizarre that the further away people were from the 9.11 attacks, the more eager and proud they were to want to eliminate civil liberties, empower Bush with dictatorial rule, and scrap both the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. While there were, undoubtedly people scared shitless in the NYC area, it was the people that Gov Palin considers "real Americans" (heartland, all-white, all-Christian) who became the most unhinged and cowardly - demographically speaking - post 9.11. The correlation between rank cowardice and supporting Bush & the GOP is hard to separate. And the areas that were attacked were, and remained, very much anti-Bush.
