Seeing Clearly, Finding Our Courage

For Americans, now is a time of waking as if from a long slumber -- one filled with nightmares of the most terrifying kind. Some of the terrors are real -- the attacks of September 11, 2001, were indeed quite real. But increasing numbers of people, largely through Internet research, have come to believe that the newspaper headline of several years ago was right: "Bush Knew."

The mayor of Salt Lake City, Utah, one Rocky Anderson, has recently given a powerful speech affirming the right, even the duty, of Americans to say the truth about the President, good or bad. He quotes, significantly, President Theodore Roosevelt in this regard. Mayor Anderson helps make clear how aberrant is this administration, how cruelly unfaithful it is to what America truly is. In future days I plan to continue reading this speech. I am placing a link to it below.

Citizenship in a democracy means work. It means constant vigilance. It means pitching in to do one's part. As we celebrate Labor Day, let us remember our civic duty, as well as our financial duties to our selves and our dear families.

(Thanks to Dr. G. for alerting me to this speech.)

deseretnews.com Text of Mayor Anderson's speech