"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices"

[Roland99]

"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices." - Edward R. Murrow

For too long this nation has been an accomplice to the destruction of itself.

For too long the Constitution has been under attack in ways even Sen. McCarthy would never have dared to imagine.

For too long the propaganda of fear has ruled the airwaves, chanting "9/11! 9/11! 9/11!"

But no more.


The end of an administration

Remember that image for that image above represents the darkest hour of democracy in this nation since it was under attack from within almost 150 years ago. Darker than the days of McCarthy when lives and businesses were destroyed under a campaign of fear. Days dark enough to have caused the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent lives in a war waged in the name of this nation's security.

But no more.

The tide has turned.

That which has been known as "Bush's Brain" has now officially been indicted for charges of perjury and lying to investigators.

The tide has turned.

The mighty American media which has turned into that which Edward Murrow lamented as isolating us from the truth in its attempt to entertain us to gather ratings for ad revenue. Money spoke louder than truth and fairness.

But no more.

The American media has been beaten by a new force: the public. The public has arisen and the truth has been found. In the form of the internet with its blogs, discussion forums, and independent journalists. Names such as Kos, Leopold, Alexandrovna, Atrios (Black) have risen above the muck of infotainment and provided the nation and the world with information. Information that has spread and been used to fight back against the powers and their war of propaganda.

The Vice President of the United States was the one responsible for the most egregious attack on Fourth Amendment rights since those days of McCarthy. And this is not the first time he has done so. His efforts to wage war on the world in the name of whatever idol he worships resulted in the travesties of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib. The flag of freedom and democracy was trampled and ripped to shreds in the process leaving a shell of a republic that must work for decades to repair from within, straddled now with massive amounts of debt incurred so that they could wage their war of ideologies. They still claim to have been right in their actions and many believed.

But no more.

[Demeter]

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