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)

Comments, questions, corrections, rebuttals are always welcome.

Thursday, April 29, 2004
 
Prehaps, indeed
Pulp fictions triumph over truth
Perhaps the most important divide in the presidential campaign is between fact and fiction. There are, of course, other sharp distinctions based on region and religiosity, guns and gays, abstinence and abortion. But were the election to be decided on domestic concerns alone, George Bush would be near certain to join the ranks of one-term presidents - like his father after the aura of the Gulf war evaporated.

Maureen Farrell lays it outThis is from last week and a little long but is very good.
Peggy Noonan?s Pearl Harbor
Unfortunately, a nightmare scenario involving another terrorist attack in November, followed by four more years of Bush and a return to the draft in 2005 is, at this point, not as far-fetched as it once seemed. Nor is the prospect of frightened Americans goosestepping along, snarling, once again, at anyone who dares to peek beyond the smoke and the mirrors.

The saddest part of all, of course, isn?t what this would do in terms of flesh and bones, but what it would do to the fabric of our nation. Perhaps before long, enough whistleblowers will come forward and scream to the rooftops and the country will at long last awaken from its slumber. In the meantime, however, how many of our sons will be lost? And, even more importantly, what will be lost alongside them? From where I sit, the last remaining shard of what has historically and truly made us "more like Americans" is teetering in the breeze -- and is one tragedy away from falling from its perch.

- posted by Mom/Dad @ 2:37 PM
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