Don...you need to get a grip. On the new reality. It's hard to break conditioning even at my age, so it'll be harder for you. A lifetime living a governmental lie. I know you know your stuff on the Constitution and so forth, but the Constitution is being circumvented and will soon be eliminated altogether. By the people who bombed the WTC. And meanwhile, we're being accustomed to the thought of torturing our neighbors while everyone wants to return to the comfortable old routine of electioneering. But we CAN'T fall back into comfortable old diversionary ways, or it's all over.

Last year the CIA (whose job is to assassinate, distribute arms and topple govts) was legally authorized to operate within the borders of the U.S. for the first time in our history. The pro killers have been directed inwards now, and there won't be any more free elections, then no free speech, then no constitution, then concentration camps. It is here, and I certainly don't take glee in it.

The price tag for a 5-year occupation of Iraq was just announced. 1.7 to 1.9 trillion dollars, US. The largest beneficiaries will be the corporations who ARE the Bushes and Cheneys....Haliburton, Westinghouse, Wackenhut. And the major defense contractor now is the Carlyle Group. Bush Sr and the bin Ladens work for the Carlyle Group, and they've already SPENT the bonus money they will make from the 'occupation' of Iraq. They bought Universal Studios last week. An Armaments Contractor bought Universal studios. So...tell me exactly HOW I can ignore this stuff. Next year you will have a universal service bill (not just a draft...but ditch digging for those not in the military), and torture will be affecting your neighborhood, and the definition of domestic terrorist will be 'anyone who infers from conduct they might break a law'...etc. And Universal studios will be making pictures about how this is all GOOD. TELL ME why I shouldn't be upset.