There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. -Alan Simpson

Last month, TechDEC — our Technology Decisions Exposition and Conference — was held in Tampa, Florida. Despite our fears of what the September 11 attacks would do to attendance, we went on with the show and were rewarded with a wonderfully successful event.

But then there's Tampa, a location we chose more than a year ago. I wish we never would have given it our business. Tampa epitomizes the worst of what government can do, especially in a time when our civil liberties are being threatened.

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