Those that control the courts control the country, just as those that control the money run the citizens.

Those that control ones information that one holds to be personal, including the right to evaluate it or disseminate it, remove all sense of security in privacy. No one would hire an attorney if that attorney would hand over ever document regarding your income to the IRS at any time, without warning. Why do we want our government to have the right to simply swoop in and take that information without first asking why they want it? And yet, that is just one thing the Patriot Act allows.

Sadly, I don’t hold much hope that either side of the present aisle will ever ‘get it” and protect people from the government, not the other way round. There are, at present, no checks and no balances. We have four more years of this, or two lifetimes in political timekeeping. It should be more than enough time to reclaim our birthright. The question is, will we ever get our rights back?

With these fools in charge and after our individual freedoms and choices, it became necessary to get President Bush 43 out of office ASAP. I sincerely hope that the GOP has no chance at the white house until they change their agenda back to individual freedoms.

Well, my blood type is O negative (wouldn’t you know it?)

I remember thinking it was interesting two people not brought up with typical American values got to define so much control over all Americans. Viet Dinh was from Vietnam and Chertoff was a second generation Russian-American.

That system of government was well and truly assassinated on September 11, 2001. The full burial took a few weeks longer, but by October, the illogically named Patriot Act put the “quaint” “piece of paper” formerly known as the Constitution 6 feet under. Our rights, it appears, were never all that inalienable to those bound by oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

I suppose we’ll have to live another four years without the Bill of Rights. We’ll also have to live indefinitely without Habeas Corpus, as that was done in by a military spending act that promised unending war against an undefined and unidentified enemy without any identifiable national roots, back in 2007.

At one time, they might have “hated us for our freedoms,” but we showed them. We got rid of our freedoms, lock, stock and barrel. Now Congress is set to extend what those alleged terrorists could only have dreamed of doing. It does make one wonder precisely who, or what, we are to truly fear.

Can this nation call itself a beacon of freedom in a land where freedom and security from the misdeeds of government is only the quaint memory of a quaint document?

America has been building groups of “hate America” all over parts of the USA. I spent my summers in the northern most part of Idaho where my mother’;s brothers owned property on Priest Lake. I saw no minorities in this Paradise for golfers and wondered about the imbalance. Yep, I was right and many members of the groups now being investigated for terrorist plans are moving into the areas around that part of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. I guess the individual states do not have the money or time to weed out these folks. .

Many of these groups meet secretly and are armed which is perfectly legal and they can and do use a form of terrorism in their words. The churches have been doing this for years.

Can we trust our government to repeat their approving of a law that they have not even read? We do have control over our representatives but do we care enough to throw their sorry butts out of office?

Carl Nemo **==