This is the home of the brave and the land of the free? What a joke! 63% of you strong and blythly free yanks are willing to bend over and let the government stick a scope up your willing ass as you gleefully proclaim "It's O.K. I have nothing to hide. 9-11 changed everything." One thing is crystal clear since 9-11, as a nation we have become a land of snivelling cowards, cowering in fear that terrorists are hiding under every rock. Our fearless leader, the current boss of the Bush crime family, is morally and spiritually bankrupt and has only fear left in his bag of dirty tricks. He beats you mercilessly with this fear. Home of the brave, indeed!! Since you say you have nothing to hide, are you willing to have Uncle Sam put cameras in and around your house to protect you from the terrorists? You only think you have nothing to hide. You would be a fool, and could be singing a different tune when they someday come for you. No one is secure if all are not secure from unwarranted, intrusive, invasive snooping into our private affairs. Generalissimo Hayden doesn't even recognize the legitimacy of the 4th amendment to the Constitution. He is the villain that our imperial wizard has nominated for the head of the C.I.A. Republicans do not believe in privacy unless it's their own. Conservatives are curious about what others are doing, who they are doing, and what they are thinking while contending that their business is none of your business.
I'm not surprised that fascists are pursuing their dark, sinister agenda, but I am horrified that a once proud and freedom-cherishing people have become a home of wimpering lemmings.
You trust Dubya, but fail to realize that he was fostered by nazi sympathizers. His grandfather Prescott was found guilty of aiding and abetting the nazis. He helped finance their war machine. George the elder, former head of the C.I.A., with the aid of John "Death Squad" Negroponte, oversaw the death squads of Central America during Reagan's questionable tenure, which slaughtered 10,000 innocent people in El Salvador and Nicaragua. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. The Bushes drip with blood and yours is expendable. The Bush family has always sided with fascists and the average American citizen, excuse me, consumer, is mere fodder for the megacorporations for whom the Bushes serve.
If you still support Bush you are either a fascist or an idiot. If the latter, you deserve neither freedom nor security; if the former, those concepts have no meaning for you. Remember, during our revolution against the madness of King George, only one in five Americans were patriots. The other four were Royalist-loyalists who preferred the tyranny of the crown. My how history repeats itself. Ribet...ribet

The Sick Rose

O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.

William Blake
1757-1827

Once your civil liberties have been usurped, it is virtually impossible to regain them. Bush pisses with impunity on the Constitution and you bastard republicans who still support this haughty pig are as treasonous as any citizen who sells secrets to foreign nations. Halliburton is building prisons,even now, for the inevitable incarcerations of American citizens who oppose this monstrous regime. We as a people have become fat and stupid, indifferent and blind to the fascist onslaught facilitated by our collective silence and apparent acquiescense to tyranny. William Blake understood the nature of evil and its allure to the weak of spirit.
O America, thou art sick!! It may already be too late to reverse the creeping fascism engulfing the nation.
Fortunately, there are those among us who are students of history. We have a President who holds himself above the law , as did Hitler.His spies are now spying on you and me and collecting your phone records, as did Hitler. You will be issued a national identity number just as Hitler did to the German people while they slept the deep sleep of nationalism.
You may naively think that nazi tyranny cannot occur in America. You would be fatally misguided to hold such a view. Ribet...ribet