Here is another reminder of the importance of paying attention to what has gone on before. We can learn from our predecessors' experience and wisdom.
This article quotes John Ashcroft in a 9/11 memorial speech:
"Observation number two. The father of our Nation, George Washington, steamed open the mail in the fight for freedom. Abraham Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus. Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Delano Roosevelt monitored all communications across our borders, and Roosevelt interned over a 100,000 people, a third of them that were citizens of the United States of America. Neither Woodrow Wilson nor Roosevelt suffered domestic casualties."
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