This Is Not America

This is not America -- and we know it. In America, the President does not order spying on every-day Americans. In America, we don't lock people up and throw away the key. In America, we don't invade and occupy countries for no reason, then sign secret deals to remain forever. In America, the White House doesn't arrange for PR firms to carry the water for the Administration, selling programs hurtful to the citizens. In America, the government doesn't operate in secret refusing to let the people who pay their salaries understand and know what it is doing.

Yet, this is what our government is doing today -- in our name. We now have a candidate McCain who says he would also spy on average Americans. This is what we are reaping by failing to impeach R. Cheney and G. W. Bush.

Related to all this: in Minnesota this week-end persons concerned about the state of the media in America are meeting to learn and plan for a media -- if not owned by -- then more responsive to the people. Citizens are seeing that unless we have a media which is not driven by a narrow profit motive, we cannot have a democratic, and open government.

Let America be America! Let a free and responsible and informed citizenry run this country and this government!