Tags: Homeland Security Act of 2002

By NANCY MURRAY and KADE CROCKFORD Truthout.org International On August 5, 2002, President George Bush declared, “We’re fighting … to secure freedom in the homeland.” Strikingly, he did not use the word “nation,” or “republic,” but instead adopted a term, with its Germanic overtones of blood, roots and loyalty going back generations, for a country…