such things as the TSA takeover of the airports, the establishment of a Homeland Security Agency, the perpetual “war on terrorism,” and the adoption and exercise of such totalitarian-like powers as torture, state-sponsored assassinations, indefinite detention, and kangaroo judicial proceedings.

To restore our rights and liberties, we need a rebirth of liberty within the hearts and minds of the American people. When that happens, people will demand a restoration of the proper role of government in American society, one that protects, not destroys, the rights and liberties of the people.LONDON — A fast-moving overnight fire engulfed a 24-story apartment tower in London on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people and injuring 74 others, police said. Desperately trying to avoid the flames, residents threw one baby and other small children from high windows to people down on the sidewalk, witnesses said.

The inferno lit up the night sky and spewed black smoke from the windows of the Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, where more than 200 firefighters battled the blaze. The smoke stretched for miles (kilometers) across the sky after dawn, revealing the blackened, flame-licked wreckage of the building, which was still burning over 12 hours later.

People trapped by the advancing flames and thick smoke banged on windows and screamed for help, witnesses and survivors said. One resident said