Word: citizens
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...Regardless of who you are - whether you're a 9/11 family member, an Iraqi war veteran, whether you lost a child in a hot tub drain, whether your child was abducted - if you're an American citizen, you have every right to open your mouth and partake in democracy. I have every right to voice my opinion...
...Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, a key 9/11 facilitator, said - apparently under interrogation - that after he was rebuffed in several attempts to enter the U.S., "in late 2000 he tried to convince a U.S. citizen in San Diego via e-mail to marry him to gain entry... but [lead hijacker Mohammad] Atta convinced him to abandon the idea." Just before his capture, the document says, bin al-Shibh had identified four operatives for an attack on London's Heathrow Airport. Indeed, several of the detainees are asserted to have been planning or close to executing new attacks at the time...
...those who lived through that day, it was unfathomable that three decades later many Americans would have no memory at all of what happened back in 2001. As a 67-year-old writing in the year 2031--at an age that used to qualify me as a senior citizen before that term was banned as ageist, and before the standard retirement age was raised to 80--I can still remember 9/11 pretty clearly. But today 1 in every 3 Americans is under age 30. And so I had better explain why I think the attacks constituted the first battle...
...Joan Claybrook The President of Public Citizen and former head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) talks about the merits of having black boxes in cars...
...this new age of mass access to mass communication the viewer or consumer has to decide what to believe, because there is no longer much power in getting to decide what to publish. If De Kort is right, Coast Guard boats have video blind spots, but citizen-observers in the new mediasphere should be just as wary about their...