Now can we have our country back?

Osama bin Laden's death closes a chapter in history. President Obama took only 2 years to catch him, when Bush couldn't do it in 8 years. (Hell, Bush didn't even fucking try.)

I hope that with this chapter closing, we can also slam the book shut on the police state that America became. Although the fastest growth in the police state occurred before 9/11 under the Contract With America (and its expansion of the War on Drugs), 9/11 provided new pretexts for it.

Whenever 9/11 was cited as an excuse to violate basic rights, it was a surrender to the terrorists. Those who surrendered are guilty of treason.

With bin Laden dead, can we end this bullshit now?

Shouldn't ALEC be among the first to end its crap? Right-wingers are crying about us having too many entries lately exposing ALEC, but I've yet to find any bills on ALEC's "model legislation" list that would seem to have states opt out of the Patriot Act or Real ID.