Well , thanks to the iNet , the citizen's exercise of " constant vigilance being the price of freedom" takes on a whole new dimension .

Know that this here DoJ is being actively "watched like a hawk" by its *citizenry* of all stripe and persuasion and the great American passtime of sounding off and shouting "Bat Guano" in a crowded room ( online or otherwise ) is alive and well *as it should be*.

As far as his about ..... " gullible reporters who, in turn, reppeat this to the public under the guise of news." ....in this marketplace of overly-commercilaized *packaged* public opinion square-dancing with *tabloid* news as entertainment......well I have to correct Citizen Hatfield a wee bit-of-a-tweak because , like demon drugs & pornography , there wouldn't be so much of it if so many otherwise just good folks *supported it* so readily and feverishly.

I mention this because I've found it a great splash of reality in the face of some of my more Right wing-persuded friends/ informal debaters who readily worship at the altar of *laissez faire uber alles* and yet forget that *the media* is a central creature of that self-same free market. Always manages to wrinkle a few idoelogically correct noses outta joint. Try this at home and it's great at parties and social gatherings.. I love reminding them the what they criticize as *the Media* ( meaning all press or TV that doesn't agree with their *free market * conservativism ) are chasing after the same profit motive that the Right wingers so religiously espouse. That's the Jeffersonian Faustiain bargain of a Jeffersonian free press in an Alexander Hamilton marketplace: If there were not such a profit-ready market for the *tabloidization* of the news then you wouldn't get so much of it. To quote Don Henley : " We *want* dirty laundry". And yet ,to loosely quote ol' Tom Jefferson: " I'd rather have an active press and no Gov't than an active Gov't and no press ". Free speech cuts both ways and twice ways from Sunday and all Americans should have a healthy skepticism anyway just on principle . So Mr. Hatfill's complaint about the media's part in magnifying his public pillorying by the FBI is a bit uncalled for because it'll be that same media who will just as publically *roast* the FBI alive for getting another one wrong and then Mr. Hatfill will have his public vindication.

Glad you sounded off Rev. Bobert. Pushing some buttons means your opinion has "currency"