It looks obvious

More than seven years ago, in the summer of 1998, I moved from Israel to live in NYC. I did not do it from ideological reason, quiet the contrary, I followed the women I loved.  However for me America always was the ideal of freedom and individualism: the Wild West, Gary Cooper in the fountainhead and Thomas Jefferson .

But the dream is far from reality. In the battle between the moral police of the conservatives and the political correctness of the, so called, liberals we the people loosing are freedom. It was easy to pass the patriot act after the September 11^th terror attack and it seems ok to force content censorship on TV and Radio broadcast. But how the hell are we justifying this :

“Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.

In other words, it’s OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess.

This ridiculous prohibition, which would likely imperil much of Usenet, is buried in the so-called Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. Criminal penalties include stiff fines and two years in prison.”