clipped from: atheistethicist.blogspot.com   
Most children who were 12 years old on September 11, 2001 will be graduating from high school this year. They have spent the bulk of their formative years watching us, learning our values, learning what we can reasonably expect from a citizen of this great country

What have we taught them?


if any political faction should work to remove the Constitutional protections

the most important thing that they are to do with their lives is to wonder about the significance of things like Tom Cruise dancing on Oprah Winfrey’s couch exclaiming his love of Katie Holmes, or the identity of the father of Anne Nichole Smith’s baby

we can only wonder what this generation will do when, 30 or 40 years from now, some would-be tyrant decides that he wants to be dictator of the United States

what will that generation do to protect those same Constitutional freedoms. (Will there be any Constitutional freedoms for them to protect?)