Twenty years ago, filmmaker Michael Moore and I began a few years of very close concurrence. Both of us fretted deeply over the civil liberties a soft and timid generation of Americans seemed willing to fritter away for a semblance of security — from Islamic terrorists, back then. He reiterated those concerns recently in a post on his website entitled “In the End, bin Laden Won.”

“How did he know we’d pass legislation giving up our sacred constitutional rights, and call it a Patriot Act?” Mike wondered. “How did he know we’d put a spy camera on every corner from Butte, Mont., to Fort Myers, Fla.?”

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