The Freedom Tower

Not far from America’s financial epicenter, universally known as “Wall Street,” is a huge, empty crater where the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center once stood, the blog baumanblog.sovereignsociety.com says.

Within weeks of the disaster that annihilated those once-glorious free market icons, fear served as the justification for a panicked U.S. Congress to enact the so-called PATRIOT Act.

Without even seeing the text of the bill, the congressional herd mentality to “do something!” produced one of the greatest assaults on the American Constitution ever passed into law. Its odious impact on our liberties still remains today. And barring the miracle of a new Congress emerging with both courage and common sense, it will continue on for years to come.

And now we find ourselves six Septembers after 9-11, 2001 in a different, yet all too familiar national media “panic.”

Once again self-described “experts” are telling us that the Congress must act immediately to bailout faltering Wall Street, adding nearly a trillion dollars to the national debt. (The existing public debt alone figures out to be $31,600 for every man, women and child in America, and this new demand will add another estimated $2,300 for every American).

But wouldn’t hindsight prompt us to think before acting this time around?