Tragic, tragic.
I agree with you,  and  just cannot  believe  people can be so dumb.
Sincerely,
John Wiseman

Cathy, Jimmy, All,

I concur from California on the opposite side of the country from Maryland. Same truth though. Yes, the old Republic is dead. It is up to us to fight for it and get a real democracy back. [with proportional representation, too.]

It is a fight to the finish against the so-called authoritarian NeoCons. They were just simple fascists 60 years ago known as German Nazis. America's "Greatest Generation" almost wiped them off the face of the Earth. Too bad, they missed a few.

A rich and privileged remnant remained in, of all places, the United States of America. Growing like a cancer from such people as Prescott Bush, grand father of the current appointed administrator in the house of white in DC, they have now returned with the most successful fascist empire of all time; and, with the most lethal military in the history of Warfare.

Yes, it is up to us to bring them [NeoCons] down. They must be replaced. This fascist government cannot stand. The Oceans will run red with the blood of millions unless the real Americans arrest and try every one of the fascist NeoCons for treason, a death penalty offense.

Dear Sirs,

I just finished reading your most recent article (http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2005/1559In), and I am appalled, to say the least. Not for your article, mind you, but for the truth about our elections you have once again made crystal clear. Our American Democracy. I am afraid to say, may be lost. The Republican Party has apparently determined that Ohio and Florida are THE vulnerable states for election manipulation, and have all the equipment and personnel in place to insure future victories in elections in spite of the will of the people.

The special prosecutor investigating the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson is trying to determine whether Deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove lied to the FBI when he was first interviewed by agents about his role in the case in October 2003, attorneys close to the case said.

News reports in recent weeks have suggested that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has narrowed his criminal inquiry into whether Rove purposely failed to tell the grand jury hearing evidence in the case that he spoke with Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper in July 2003 and revealed the identity of the undercover CIA agent.

But Fitzgerald hasn't resolved another important element in the case: what appears to be misleading statements Rove made to FBI investigators on Oct. 8, 2003, less than two weeks after the Justice Department announced that it had launched a criminal probe into Plame's outing, the attorneys said.

Those close to the case say that Rove was caught up in a game of semantics when he was questioned by FBI investigators, insisting to federal agents that he was not the individual who had leaked Plame-Wilson's identity to

How much more will the American people endure?

"Find out just what people will quietly submit to, and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." 
---Frederick Douglass, African-American slave, and abolitionist

229 Years Later Have Passed and True Freedom Still Eludes Most of Us

In support of the brave and intelligent citizens of Vermont who recently passed a resolution to secede from the union, I decided to update and modify our Declaration of Independence to fit the circumstances we are facing in 2005. Despite the numerous distinctions between then and now, in some significant ways, little has changed. Like our Founding Fathers, I enumerated grievances of the Oppressed in my version of the Declaration, and many are similar to those spelled out in the original version drafted in 1776. Even the name of the lead Oppressor remains the same.