I have a tale of liberal exploitation of 9/11. I live in an unincorporated small town in LA. We have a select group of lefty elitist liberals who wanted to incorporate our town to; 1. create a mayor/city council type municipal government. 2. Create a oneman (horse) police department, 3. enact liberal city ordinances for power control, 4. raise taxes when there is no revenue to fill the coffers. 5. All of these meatheads came from up north and wanted things here to become like their former habitats. Myself and a group of loyal followers had petitions circulated and signed by 15% of the residents in our area which was brought before the county commission for a vote to create our own district to stop this incorporation nonsense. When the commission met shortly after 9/11 we presented our case in a professional and substantiated manner. The opposing group elist liberals stated the following;1. the reason 9/11 happened was because of people like us not pulling together and disagreeing with them to incorporate our town. 2. Our actions were that of the KKK and would divide the community(put up an imaginary berlin wall) 3.One lackey said the next thing is, we would require all people not in our district to wear arm-bands to identify them as non-residents of our district, 4. and the liberal leader's wife jumped up and shouted at the top of her lungs, that at a time of duress in this country we should all be pulling together instead of apart. Well after all the hysterical whining the commissioned voted on our petition to create a new district. The vote passed by a margin of 4 to 3 and I quickly turned in the petitions immediately to the secretary of the county commissioners to insure it was annotated as received at the time of the vote passage. Well, we won and I laughed so hard at the hysteical liberals ranting about, if klintoon were in office janet reno would come down and straighten out this outrage of injustice. I smiled at them and said this is America land of the free and home of the brave. I further told them that we unlike them pulled together and not apart to stop their power grab of our little community. I hope that I did not bore you with this story, but I just wanted to show my example of the liberal mind-set in my part of the country.P.S. our county government provides us with superior police services and many other amenities without the burden of another layer of government/more taxes. Our referendum, when the vote took place was overwhelming in our favor by a vote 600+ to a mere 40-. In closing even after Ivan things here in Lillian,LA are looking good. 9/11 only made America stronger.