It seems each time another whistle blower steps forward in to the spotlight to expose the Bush Administration, he or she’s either retired, or no longer employed.  When will the time come where our media will publish the stories from those with the Smoking Gun, in hand?  There’s a diffusion of priority when informants of this type step forward. 

On a related note, it seems that the American media do a consistent job of turning each of these major infractions, be they related to significant breaches in 1st Amendment rights to free speech, to covert spying of governmental officials on basically anyone.  What would have been a call to arms in newspapers past is now the quietly hidden in the drone of another scandal, another slap on the wrist of that sloppy president of ours.  What they lack in content is made up for in it’s very absence.  The way that our media reduce the importance of this issue is alarming, as it’s also the case that Nixon was brought to his knees under these very auspices. 

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/photography/70thanniversa ry/70s/watergate/watergate7.htm Odd symmetry between the Nixon and Bush Administrations…

Wire tapping, fabricating reasons for conflict, while vastly bolstering military industrial spending are not new concepts to those that reside in the Oval Office.  What has changed, this time through, is an overt willingness by the current administration to waive off responsibility for their actions, and place 100% of the blame squarely on the need to stay the course, and keep on fighting terrorism.  See http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/17/143241

Remember, our responsibility must lie with what is good for this endangered planet on which we live, and not with the lesser of evils.  Stand together.  Organize.  Remember that our lives are fragile, but our will is unbreakable.

Investigation is the centrist choice, between ignoring overwhelming cause for alarm and pushing for impeachment without enough evidence. How many leakers have to speak out before the American public will contact their representatives to demand it?

That’s the kind of difference each person reading this can make.

http://jpsgoddamnblog.blogspot.com/2006/04/how-many-le akers-will-it-take.html

Was this the story that CBS was going to air before the 2004 election but ended up canning after the “Rather-gate” had GOoPers crying “partisan liberal media bias”?

I apologize ...

I should have written “words of our heroic founders” ... because it has been men, women, and children who have stood up for truth and liberty and justice for all.

I got carried away by the lyric phraseology of my youth, now many years ago ... when I should have been paying closer attention to the real meaning of the words.

Best regards,
Hilding Lindquist

Our course is clear. “Our” being “we the people.”

It is time to demand the truth.

Will we follow the age old wisdom of our heritage?:

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” John 8:32 (King James Version of the New Testament, http://www.blueletterbible.org)

or the wisdom of the wacko Jack Nicholson character, Col. Nathan R. Jessep, in A FEW GOOD MEN?:

“You can’t handle the truth.”

That is the question confronting us as we head toward the election on Novemeber 7.

Let us remember our heritage as we heed the call to learn the truth. Let the words of our heroic forefathers stir our hearts and minds to give us the courage to demand the truth, for if we fear the truth then truly we need to be afraid.

“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
-Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address (Hay Draft, Library of Congress)

“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” - Signers of our Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776

2006 is the year of the people. Throw the bums out!