I’m angry because at about 10:30 PM last Wednesday a woman was accosted in an alley near my home and raped. There was no local news coverage, and a full week went by before I was even made aware of this vicious act.
It’s bad enough that I had to worry about being killed tonight because I walked home from Suburban Station in a rain storm without any money in my wallet (a sufficient provocation to warrant death from a mugger), but to know that rapists lurk in my alleys? I’m very frustrated.
And yet, I still can’t understand why Middle America thinks the threat of terrorism warrants the loss of our inalienable rights. We live with all these risks…you live in a fantasy land. We are not afraid. We would give up no rights to protect ourselves. You call us coddlers of terrorists and tell us the NSA must spy without warrants. Fuck you.
