“How to Beat Terrorism: Refuse to Be Terrorized” by Spencer Ackerman
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/09/end-911-era/

“[H]ysteria is what the terrorists want.”

Bin Laden was successful, “not because of what he was, but because of how we reacted to him.”

“The U.S. has to embrace the reality that terrorism is not anything remotely like the existential threat we make it out to be. We can honor those 2,996 without being permanently haunted by them.”

“[T]errorism alone cannot do anything to the Constitution. Only Americans can damage the Constitution.”

“A Moment of Silence” a poem by Emmanuel Ortiz
http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/silence.html

Before I begin this poem, I’d like to ask you to join me in a moment of silence in honor of those who died in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001.
I would also like to ask you to offer up a moment of silence for…