Silence is Consent

If you don't speak up you accept what is happening. This site was born out of the mainstream media's inability to cover the news. I am just an American cititzen trying to spread the word in the era of FCC consolidation, post 9/11 Patriot Act hysteria, hackable voting machines and war without end. I rant and post news items I perceive to be relevant to our current situation.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson

Social Security is not broken and therefore does not need to be fixed

So Called Social Security Crisis (SCSSC)

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Thursday, February 19, 2004
 
The fight over the PDB's
Extraordinary Measures
A recalcitrant Bush administration forces the 9/11 Commission to poke into Bob Woodward's notebook

Howard Zinn with another story on the cost of war
The Ultimate Betrayal
The quick Thanksgiving visit of Bush to Iraq, much ballyhooed in the press, was seen differently by an army nurse in Landstuhl, Germany, where casualties from the war are treated. She sent out an e-mail: "My 'Bush Thanksgiving' was a little different. I spent it at the hospital taking care of a young West Point lieutenant wounded in Iraq. . . . When he pressed his fists into his eyes and rocked his head back and forth he looked like a little boy. They all do, all nineteen on the ward that day, some missing limbs, eyes, or worse. . . . It's too bad Bush didn't add us to his holiday agenda. The men said the same, but you'll never read that in the paper."

We hold these truths to be self-evident
The One You’ve Been Waiting For
The one you’ve been waiting for has always been here. The one you’ve been waiting for pressured these candidates to fight the onslaught of the Bush administration. The one you’ve been waiting for took to the streets before the Iraq invasion, worked for the campaign which most inspired, agitated against the PATRIOT Act, spoke to friend and neighbor and family about what has gone wrong.

This final truth is self-evident. You are the one you’ve been waiting for. You drive the agenda. You make or break this political season. You are the hero. You’ve been here the whole time.


If it works don't fix it. The Republicans have been using this since Ike.
The Dummy Defense
Like Reagan, Bush is not particularly conversant with the details of policy. But unlike Reagan, Bush gives the impression that he just doesn't give a damn. Call it decisive leadership or know-nothingism, Bush seems to believe that a complex understanding of the options before him – like worrying about the reaction of other nations or contemplating the potential for unintended consequences – is for wimps. And he's not just unconcerned that liberals might have disdain for the limits of his intellectual curiosity. He counts on it.

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