And while I'm at it: Fundamental freedoms are being stripped from people and we do NOT see it happening to us. Freedom of information doesn't exist anymore. And expecting to get truth from the media is like expecting to get the truth from a pathological liar. If it happens, it will be quite by accident. I haven't respected the media as a bastion of free speech for more decades than I care to say. Filthy bastards: their cowardice is selling all of us out--and we can't do shit about it. Stop buying the friggin' newspapers, and stop listening to evening news. We haven't got enough of the truth even to begin filtering out the bullshit. Basically, we wouldn't know where to start.

I'll shut up now, and thank you for letting me get this off my chest.