September 10, 2002
Well, she's not really a "babe" in any of that word's meanings. She's a 16 year old girl whose mother posted on Blog Sisters something the girl wrote after using the internet to inform herself about the Patriot Act. What she wrote is worth giving more visibility to. So, here it is:
"I am Amelia Margaret Mason and I am 16 years old. I wrote this because I am worried about what the government is doing. I am too young to change things myself, but I hope that you who are reading this can do something about it. I am greatly concerned because I feel that from now on there is the possibility that the world that I will soon be entering will cease to be a free one.
What are the first things that came to mind when you ask someone my age why someone from another country would come here. They would probably say freedom of speech and freedom of religion. There are also many other things that make America special and different from other countries. I think that the terrorists do not like the freedom we have in our country or are some how jealous that they can’t have the same freedom. I think they do things like the atrocity of 9/11 because they think it could take our freedom away by scaring us.
That didn’t work on the citizens of the United States. But they scared the government. Now the government is scared enough to try to pass a bill called The Patriot Act. This act gives the president a lot of power to decide things without a vote. This may help some time, but I think it could lead to some very bad problems. From what I have hear and read the president is not really competent enough to make these kind of decisions properly by himself. From what I can tell he is more concerned with politics than the welfare and rights of the majority of the citizens of America. Also, this act takes away some of the most basic rights that we have: the freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of assembly. Without these basic rights America would be like any other country that we fight against. In effect the government is carrying out the terrorists work for them.
I hope that the adults that read this can vote and try to stop this so that when my friends and I grow up we will have a country we can be proud of and happy in."
Amen to that.
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Annie on 11 Sep 2002
Thank you for the send up. She is thrilled with the idea that her words will be seen. She even told me I was cool for posting her editorial. How neat is that to have you kid think you are cool? Especially when she had something so important to say.
dzwonki polifoniczne nokia on 14 Jun 2004
Hmmmmm interesting !!!