Crossing the Line

Crossing the Line

(A guest editorial by Cliff Carson)

    Much discussion has been bandied about in the past few days concerning the use of Sarin gas on the Syrian population, and what we as a moral Nation should do about it. Of course the inference is that the Assad Regime is the user of that poison gas. The Media is full of the Obama statement, warning Assad, that using gas on the people would be "crossing the Line" and if such was to occur, the United States would become involved on the side of the Rebels.

    Well the charge has now been made, so what to do next is the question.

    I pose that first we need to do some fact checking and then some soul searching.

    Has gas been used? According to reports, gas was used in a limited way on March 15th.  Can this be proven and if it was used who did it - the Assad Regime or the Rebels?  By the way, who are the Rebels and when did this all start?

    We can go back as far in history as you might desire, but I choose to wander back to Plato and report some of his writings on Elites and State leaders, and as you might guess the nobility of wars.

    Plato espoused that for the Elites and the State to lie to the people was perfectly acceptable as long as it was good for the State as a whole. But in Plato's world the State leadership was made up of the Elites.  His reasoning for allowing the Elites, and thus the Government, to lie?  The State and the Elites will only act for the good of the people as a whole and there the people should look upon the State and the Elites as a form of Gods.

    "If anyone at all is to have the privilege of lying, the rulers of the State should be the persons, and they, in their dealings either with enemies or with their own citizens, may be allowed to lie for the public good.".  - Plato

    You might not be surprised to learn that Plato, who believed in Reincarnation, thought that the deceased would return in either a higher calling or lower status depending on their performance  at their previous level in life.  Plato thought that the highest level into which anyone could be reincarnated would be  -  Politician.

   Back to the question - was Sarin gas used?  At this time there is no way to prove whether or not it was used, unless it was immediately tested, because Sarin gas and any evidence of it disperses rapidly and it is too late now to find any evidence pertaining to use back on the 15th of March.

    But if it was used, who did the deed?  Some information to ponder:

   Once Gaddafi was deposed and the new Libyan Government was in control, it was reported in one of England's Newspapers, The Daily Telegraph that:  

    "Syrian rebels held secret talks with Libya's new authorities on Friday, aiming to secure weapons and money for their insurgency against President Bashar el-Assad's Regime.  Syrian rebels held the secret talks ( in Turkey) with Libya’s new authorities on Friday, aiming to secure weapons and money for their insurgency against the President Bashar al-Assad’s regime"

    A Libyan source speaking on the condition of anonymity stated, "There is something being planned to send weapons and even Libyan fighters to Syria. There is a military intervention on the way.  Within weeks you will see."  Later that month over 600 Libyans were reported to have entered Syria to begin Combat operations and more fighters and weapons have  followed continuously since.

    After the longest war in American History ( Iraq) which was entered into based on false information ( A Presidential lie) that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, isn't it hypocrisy to see the Western powers, including America, arming, funding, and politically backing rebels in Syria, whose army consists of Al-Qaida terrorists and religious Sunni's fighting to oust the Alawite Religion of Assad and based on that initial report of the use of Sarin gas on March 15th? It was first reported to the world by European news Media as follows:

     "At least 25 are reported dead after a chemical weapons attack targeting Syrian soldiers was carried out by NATO-backed terrorists in the northern city of Aleppo."

    So here we are. If the gas was used, by whom was it used?  Keep in mind that the statement about "crossing the line" was uttered by Obama prior to this gas attack.  Was the gas attack something the Assad Regime initiated?  Or was it by the foreign fighters brought in by the United States and its allies?  Or maybe it was a False Flag operation conducted by those wanting a new Profit Stream opened up due to a new War in Syria?

    Finally there is a final question that should be asked and answered:

    Is the United States war crowd  immoral enough to want to instigate a new war for the war profits that accrue to the Elites and the Federal Government which the Military Industrial Complex controls?

    Let me take you back to Operation Northwoods.  At the time this False Flag concept was hatched up by the War Crowd in our Government, the Cuban Missile Crisis had caused planners to work up a plan to rile up the public, to support a war against Cuba.   This was to be done by initiating raids against American Citizens conducted by US special forces.  This series of raids was to kill American Citizens and blame it on Cuban Terrorists. The only reason Operation Northwoods wasn't carried out was because President John Kennedy told the War Crowd it wasn't going to happen while he was President.  Later both he and his brother Robert were assassinated, by - well you know the story.

    There are those who want War as a means of profiteering. They have been on Earth since man rose up to walk upright. They will always be among us. We need to be vigilant and learn to recognize them by their actions.

    It is they who have crossed the line.

A Little Child Shall Lead Them

A Little Child Shall Lead Them

Isaiah 11:6

AN eight year old child made a poster in his third grade class. His proud teacher took a photo of him holding his poster. I’ve spent quite a bit of time looking at that photo, which now has been seen around the world. I have looked at his expression, the way he delicately holds his poster up for his teacher. He has a small smile, including the gaps of missing baby teeth, but his eyes caught me. I see a sadness, a pleading, in his eyes. He means what his poster says, “No more hurting people. Peace” On either side of the word Peace is a heart and below it is a peace symbol.

    This eight year old child has just solved the major problem of the world, and he wants the world to understand it and do it. No More hurting people. If that is accomplished, then Peace may result.

    I don’t know what it was that influenced him to write that poster. Perhaps he had heard people discussing drones and the killing of women and children around the world. Perhaps he had watched a schoolyard bully beat up a little kid and steal his lunch money. Maybe it was a kindly old lady who lived down the street and sat on the porch swing, feeding him cookies, petting her cat, and telling him stories of her youth. Perhaps it was just common sense, which is much more common in small children than it is in  adults, but is rarely recognized by us.

    A few days, or perhaps a week or so later, his shattered body was lying on a street in Boston, surrounded by many hurting people, including his mother, sister and, his father.

    A bit earlier, I had seen a photo of a bunch of Pakistanis, with a row of dead children laid out in a row before them. Victims of an Obama sponsored drone. Perhaps he saw that, though I doubt it. It was not widely published here in the US.

    Mr. Obama came to Boston for a brief photo-op, vowing to bring the perpetrators to “justice” and announcing that he is sending in guns, tanks and drones to “pacify” yet another poor country in Africa.

    Mr. Obama, what part of Martin Richard’s poster do you not understand?

 No More hurting people.

Peace

    Isaiah 11:6 says, “a little child shall lead them.” I see that Martin’s picture is slowly fading away as the mass media has milked it for what it can get in the short attention span of the American public. I hope, though, that this simple photo will remain as a lesson in the hearts and minds of many around the world who weary of endless wars, endless “hurting people” for the profits and power of the arms and war makers.

    Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the memory of this innocent little martyr and his simple poster could, in fact, lead the world toward the path of peace?

    Bless you Martin Richard. May your memory stay green and bright and may we bring your simple plea to fruition.

Steve Osborn

18 April 2013

Remembrance Day

    Now is the day that we remember
    Our dead, the wars, each falling ember.
    Veterans, Poppy clad, march in sadness and pride,
    Ever mindful of the dwindling companies they once marched beside.
    Men, long turned grey, who remember the youth and strength
    Bourne by them into war, adventure, endless length,
    Ever yearning, at last, for home, for hearth, for peace.
    Remembering all their lives the horrors that wars release.

    Eleven, eleven, the day the guns fell still,
    Leaving only the stench of gas, and bodies, and graves to fill.
    Eleven, eleven and the “War to end all wars,” had ceased.
    Vengeance and madness! Again the dogs of war unleashed!
    Ever rending a new generation to feed their maw.
    Now, war follows war, each more cruel, more raw,
    Tears the fabric of life, slays man, woman, child; death in the rough.
    Heaven itself must cry in pain, “For the love of God! Enough! Enough!”

Steve Osborn
For Remembrance Day 2008
© Stephen M. Osborn 11/11/2008

“I’m mad as Hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”

MANY of you are old enough to remember the movie Network. There are two clips you should watch. The first is Mr. Beale telling everybody to open their windows and shout, “I’m mad as Hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” and it worked! The politicians listened. Changes were made. The second clip is more somber, but lays out the program of the 0.01% in a nutshell.

    If you are tired of reading of women and children being killed by drones, of all males in a country between the ages of puberty and senility being deemed combatants, so killing them bolsters our alleged success and is not considered a terrorist act, if you are tired of Obama’s kill list, of the NDAA and the ability to pick up anyone and disappear them for life if someone feels they are a danger, if you are tired of endless surveillance, no fly lists, no border crossing lists; If you remember the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights and remember that this nation met terrible crises and survived under the above documents; if you remember habeas corpus; if you remember what life was like before the misnamed and unconstitutional “Patriot Act,” and its various clones supplanted the Constitution; if you remember what the world and the US was like before it was given to the banksters and Hedge Fund CEO’s, to rob at will. If you remember these things and would like our world and our nation back in the hands of the people, then it is time.

    It is time to remind Mr Obama and his henchmen that he has just been re-elected, mainly because the Republicans put up an even crazier and greedier opponent to run against him.

    But We the People expect our country back! We want our Constitution back in the halls of government, intact and functioning. We want transparency in government, we want whistleblowers protected and the crimes they expose investigated and corrected. We want the Bill of Rights recognized as the rule and guide of this nation as it has been for two centuries.

    So contact your alleged representatives, buttonhole the press, write Mr. Obama and the various appointees of his cabinet. Tell them We are mad as Hell and we’re not going to take it anymore!

    We want the change that was promised in 2008, not the change we got, with more wars, more dead, more trillions given to the banksters, more homeless and jobless than ever before. We want single payer medical. We want to be free again! You work for us! That is what your jobs are about. Our taxes paid belong to us, you just hold it in trust to help our nation prosper. It is not given to you to spend as you see fit on war and oppression and spying. Legislation is to protect the people, not make them subjects of an expanding Empire.

    Just keep hammering them until they get the idea, and if they don’t, impeach them, recall them, search for honest men and women to replace them and help them get in office.

    It is time for We the People to take our country back, to make an end to greed, bigotry, hatred, poverty.
 Let that beacon of liberty shine again with pride!

Memorial Day 2012

Memorial Day 2012
A Remembrance

    My memory of war starts with World War II. I was just a boy during the war and it was largely an adventure to us, but I remember the quiet pride and the sadness in the eyes of the increasing number of mothers who hung a gold star in their window, never knowing if my mom might be next and my big brother, a Pearl harbor survivor, gone.

    The wars, great and small, were legion in the last century. My dad lost his leg in the Horse Cavalry in the Phillippines in 1913. WW-I, was the “Great War to end all wars.” An entire generation died in the trenches. One of my uncles, who lied about his age, was the first, and youngest, soldier from Oregon to die in that war, at the battle of Chateau Thierry.

    The memory of man is short and only twenty years passed before another generation was thrown into the meat grinder to stave off domination by Hitler’s Nazis, Mussolini’s Fascists and Imperial Japan’s expansion.

    We had hardly buried the dead and recovered from the shock of the realities of nuclear annihilation when East and West went at it in Korea, a war which still goes on, the fighting finally just stopped by mutual agreement.

    The cold war and the covert wars went on, then along came Vietnam. Since then, the “little” wars have gone on all over the world, like bush fires in the California hills, consuming human and material resources.

    In 2001, we saw  the tragedy of 11 September and its aftermath. Then we watched another war in Afghanistan, which has been swallowing up armies since the time of Alexander the Great. We are now in the tenth year of a horrendous war in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Pakistan, which has killed US troops in the thousands, Iraqis and Afghans and Pakistanis in the hundreds of thousands and fosters still more hatred and unrest. Every year, our wars expand and poverty increases here at home. We have prosecuted yet another war in Libya and are facing yet more "preemptive" wars in Iran and possibly Syria.

    Along with our endless wars, we are faced with increasing oppression at home, with endless surveillance of our citizens, police repression of dissent, a Supreme Court that rules in favor of business and fascism, a nation where torture has become the norm and the military may pick anyone up and incarcerate them for life with no charges and no evidence.

    Once more the toll will be enormous, at home and abroad.

    Amongst the dead may be the man who would have discovered the cure to cancer and other deadly diseases, the composer who may have surpassed Mozart or Brahms, the playwright or poet who might have succeeded Shakespeare, the statesman who could have brought about world peace or the person who might have been able to end world hunger.

    Those are the might-have-beens. The reality is the millions of humans who have died, fathers, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fighters and civilians in this past century, all with the dream of peace and human dignity before them. Yet, with the new millennium, war and repression still goes on around the world.

    Let us give pause in remembrance of those who died, often alone and forgotten, victim of mine and booby trap, sniper fire or disease and infection, whose resting place is unmarked save for perhaps a little more verdant growth where they have nurtured the soil.

    Let us give pause in remembrance for those who survived, maimed in body or soul by the atrocity of war.

    Let us give pause in remembrance for those who survived to carry on, with nothing but memories, of which they do not speak.

    Let us give pause in remembrance for those whose lives ended abruptly, without warning, on 11 September. And those of all nations and beliefs who continue to die by war and terrorism.

    Let us give pause and reflect, that we might carry out our lives in such a way that love and tolerance might overbalance hatred and bigotry in the scales of life and the dream of peace might become a reality, so those we remember today did not die in vain.

Steve Osborn

Chernobyl and now Japan

Twenty-five years ago, I wrote the article below. I wrote it as a warning, and to make people think. Now, what I feared so long ago has come to pass. Can we learn from this catastrophe, or do we wait for “the third time is the charm?” I fear we are really running out of time.

Our hearts go out to the people of Japan, their suffering is unimaginable. They have been battered by an earthquake and tsunami of Biblical proportions and now they are in the middle of a cascade failure of nuclear reactors with a far greater destructive potential than Chernobyl. We may feel, or breathe, the effects of that failure around the world.

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"THE BURNED HAND THINKS TWICE ABOUT FIRE"
by
Stephen M. Osborn

©1986 Stephen M. Osborn

The Time: Summer, 1956, shortly before dawn.
The Place: A passageway leading to a lightwell aft of the conning tower of the escort carrier, U.S.S. Badoeing Strait, at sea off Bikini Atoll.

An eighteen year old boy stood with his back to the lightwell, his arms tightly crossed over his eyes, shivering with anticipation as he listened to the voice on the intercom. Other than that, absolute silence reigned about the ship.

"...Five ...Four...Three...Two...One...Zero."
Intense light! Seen right through the arms and clenched eyelids.
Heat! As though standing before an opened furnace door.
Eerie silence.

After a time, the light began to fade; the boy cautiously removed one arm from before his face and winced, for it was back, shining through the remaining arm, but again fading. When he could finally open his eyes, he squinted up the lightwell at a sky so brilliantly blue it dwarfed the noon. Finally, he peeked around the conning tower at the fireball and glowing cloud of "Cherokee," later described to us as a "twenty megaton plus thermonuclear device, detonated at an altitude of twenty thousand feet, at a distance of approximately thirty miles."

Now that young sailor is forty-eight, with a grown daughter and a seventeen year old son. He can still, when he closes his eyes, see those glowing clouds in his memory and feel the shock wave hammer the ship. He still, upon occasion, has the nightmares.

I have written elsewhere of my impression of that nuclear test series and the effect that it has had on my life; on all of our lives. Every time the "cold war" is warmed up, the "Star Wars Program" is extolled or more missiles are deployed, I go through agonies of depression and apprehension. I write, to the Kremlin, to the White House, to the U.N.

The U.N. sends me literature and refers me to my government. My government answered me once. The State Department sent me a copy of one of Reagan's speeches and told me that the President was as concerned about peace as I was and that was why we needed to build more modern, efficient missiles - and retire the obsolete ones. The Kremlin never replies, but a couple of times they have used almost the same language as in one of my letters. A coincidence, no doubt, but it made me feel good.

For a time, we cooperated in space, visited each other's stations, even designed the docking bays so both nation's ships could use them. Now, we are to use space as a battleground. We are to lift satellites into orbit with a nuclear device on board. Good thinking, when we are zero for three and can't even put a weather satellite in orbit.

If we get them up there, they are supposed to be detonated through a device to zap "most" of the incoming missiles with x-rays. Of course, some ten percent are going to get through.

I remember when they detonated a nuclear warhead in space and it screwed up the Heaviside layer so badly that radio communications were knocked out for weeks. They quickly made a treaty never to do that again. We have a rather finely tuned set of screens shielding us from solar radiation. We are not too sure what it would take to damage it beyond restoration, but the scientists have a pretty good idea of what life, or the lack of it, would be like without that screen. With the magic of "Star Wars," they seem to have forgotten all about that test and its effects. (My son just walked in and asked me if I had seen the weather report in the Chronicle? "For the first time in history," he said, "'Scattered showers this evening with minor traces of radioactive iodine.' Wow!")

That brings us to the point of this article; Chernobyl.

Chernobyl was a minor incident. A single reactor failure. The explosion was a simple chemical one, the fire a chemical fire, rather intense and hard to extinguish, but simply an extension of a coal mine fire. The amount of nuclear fuel was probably a few tons at best.

Yet the effect of that small incident has been felt, physically, half way around the earth and the cloud is still moving East. The area surrounding the plant, the local reservoirs, crops, livestock, the earth itself, contaminated perhaps for decades. [now estimated to be 300-600 years] Discussions are going on as to removing the soil and replacing it with uncontaminated soil from elsewhere. Very good. Bring in livestock, new plant stock, new soil. Perhaps in a few years it will be just a memory.

Multiply that by even a small nuclear exchange, or perhaps a major meltdown, say a whole complex of reactors. Where are you going to put the contaminated soil? Where are you going to find the uncontaminated soil to replace it with? We can't even dispose of our current nuclear waste from normal operations safely to date.

Oh! We're in high dudgeon about the Soviets not keeping us informed of what was going on. At Three Mile Island, the state officials couldn't get any information about what was going on for days, just the usual "Situation under control," followed by "A small. amount of radiation was released," then "Well, it was a bit more than we thought," etcetera. When the Titan exploded at Vandenberg, the local officials could get nothing from the military about the toxic cloud of Red Fuming Nitric Acid vapor drifting across the landscape. Union Carbide wasn't exactly free with information on either of their spills and just try to get toxic dump information out of any company or agency without a court order. Come on, now, the Russians didn't do anything differently than we do.

We crow about our containments, but they cannot withstand infinite pressure. Why do you think they valved off radioactive vapors at TMI?

Russia offered a moratorium, unilaterally, on nuclear testing. No more tests, period. Reagan said, "You can come over and watch ours." We then proceeded to set off three tests, while the Russians kept saying, "No more testing, please." After we set off three, they called off the moratorium and Reagan said, "See, the Russians can't .be trusted." Since then we set off another one. Who is showing bad faith?

Our seismographic stations around the world can pinpoint any explosion over a few hundred tons. That makes verification quite easy. We could have supported the moratorium. Ending the arms race is the only thing in the world that makes sense. It is bankrupting everything but the military-industrial complex. Even a one-sided nuclear attack is going to destroy civilization and most of the life on the entire planet. We are getting a little fallout from Chernobyl. What does the government think would happen if we hit the Soviet Union with everything we've got before they could get anything off the ground? They would be the lucky ones, most of them would be quickly dead, we might take months, but we would have sealed our fate and that of the rest of the world as well.

The lesson of Chernobyl, TMI, the Fermi Plant near Detroit, Bikini, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Nevada and Utah is clear; Star Wars, hardened sites and missile subs have nothing to do with it. We must leave the nuclear beast alone until it is tamed and its waste made harmless. The best way to do this is to talk, and listen, then act to dismantle this beast. Perhaps, if we do this and the world heaves a collective sigh of relief, we can then bend our efforts to solving some of the problems of hunger, poverty, disease and illiteracy here on earth. With that under control, perhaps we can even begin the joint adventure of exploring the stars.

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It is twenty-five years since Chernobyl. We have many more reactors in service, the cold war arms race has begun yet again, to the enrichment of the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complex and the death or crippling of millions around the world as we pursue endless wars for oil and mineral wealth in other countries. Now we have a cascade reactor failure in Japan with possibly up to five reactors and their cooling ponds melting down and spewing into the atmosphere

Brownshirts Dressed in Blue?

I wrote the article below on 2 September 2004 after the police corralled hundreds of people and held them on a rat infested pier until the RNC was over. We have continued to deteriorate to the point that we now have candidate's thugs beating up any opposition. And the right is praising them! I see little difference between being Bushwhacked in 2004 and living in the Obamanation today, except that the wars and torture and giveaways to the rich are even wider, more brutal, and more blatant.

Brownshirts Dressed in Blue?
by
Steve Osborn

I have observed the Republican fascist takeover of our government with great trepidation, as I am a student of history. The parallels with the Germany of the 30's are frightening. The Weimar Republic was under attack and the economy was failing. They could have balanced the budget, but chose not (or were not allowed) to tax the wealthy Junkers, the owners of most of the agriculture and heavy industry of Germany. Instead, the burden fell on the middle classes.

Hitler had written his plan for Germany and the World in Mein Kampf and there was little of freedom in it. The Nazis had a small minority in the Reichstag, but there was a large organization of thugs known as the SA, or Brownshirts. These stormtroopers protected Hitler’s rallies by driving off or beating up on the opposition. They destroyed polling booths and drove off opposition party voters at the polls, stole ballot boxes, and generally brutalized any opposition. Hitler made a pact with the army Officer Corps and the Junkers, that the army would be rebuilt and supplied. They would be given free rein. The Junkers would not be taxed or their profits reduced by the Nazi government. They poured huge amounts into the Nazi coffers, which was used to fuel a propaganda machine unmatched until today.

The Nazis finally won and took power. Hitler quickly suborned the Reichstag into a rubber stamp congress for his programs. He used a phony terrorist act (The SS set fire to the Riechstag Building and blamed it on the communists) to clamp down on the people, for their own security of course.

“Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of freedom of expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications; and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permitted beyond the legal limit otherwise prescribed.”

No, that is not a quote from the PATRIOT ACT, it is taken from a decree “for the Protection of the People and the State” (AKA the Enabling Acts) issued on 28 February 1933, the day after the Reichstag fire, suspending the seven sections of the Weimar constitution which guaranteed individual and civil liberties. It was described as a “defensive measure against Communist acts of violence endangering the state.”

Once the Nazis had consolidated their power, newspapers or radio stations expressing opposition were either shut down, or the Brownshirts destroyed their presses and offices. As the newspapers were suppressed, they were “bought” by Nazi propagandists. Soon, all that one heard or read in Germany was the Nazi’s “fair and balanced” viewpoint. Soon, it was death or a concentration camp for those who disagreed or even listened to another viewpoint. Labor unions quickly came under fire and were abolished. The various churches who tried to protest were silenced or outlawed. Pensions were erased and labor laws were abolished. New ones were substituted which left the workers with no right but to do what they were told. Then came the book burnings and an attempt to erase anything that did not agree with the Nazi view of the world.

Don’t get me wrong, I do not equate Bush with Hitler. Bush doesn’t have Hitler’s charisma, nor is he anywhere close to as intelligent. I am just trying to point out that the United States is poised on a slippery slope and the lesson is there to be read in fairly recent history.

In both Italy and Germany, the government and big business were closely tied and business had the right to unlimited profit. The government passed laws against organized labor and repealed any laws that guaranteed worker’s rights. Pensions were repealed and the funds returned to business and government to use as they wished. Both governments invented foreign enemies that “threatened their existence.” The people were expected to approve any measure that protected them from those enemies. People who protested these policies were automatically classified as traitors or enemy agents. They were tried, often in secret tribunals, and executed, or just disappeared, often to a concentration camp. Ethnic groups were singled out as scapegoats and persecuted, often winding up in concentration camps. The above description is only a thumbnail sketch of what happened, but one can get the idea.

The result in each case was a nation whose citizens were bombarded with only one point of view until they came to believe it, who marched lock step with their leader right into the abyss, dragging millions of innocents along with them. In four years, we have gone from a respected nation that worked with the world to try to make it a better place, to a nation hated and despised for being a bully, a liar, a killer, a torturer and a gross polluter, raping the environment for private profit and greed.

I would like the United States to be remembered as something better; as a nation of law and empathy and respect; as a nation with a marvelous Constitution and Bill of Rights that is a model for any emerging nation. Watching the actions of the NYPD suppressing the people exercising their First Amendment rights, while the major “fair and balanced” media ignored it, made me realize how fragile these freedoms and that Constitution have become under the Cheney/Bush regime. These latter day Brownshirts are rapidly gaining power. We the People are rapidly running out of options and we had better exercise them at the polls before it’s too late.

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