Washington D.C. - President George W. Bush awarded Saddam Hussein with the Medal of Freedom today for his work defining U.S. policy on torture, the use of chemical weapons and domestic surveillance.
My country is going off the deep end into a world of trouble. It's getting so no one can say anything bad about their own country/president, without being terriorized by the FBI or Secret Service agents. It's true. Read this and see for yourself:
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - An elderly man who wrote in a letter to the editor about Saddam Hussein's execution that "they hanged the wrong man" got a visit from Secret Service agents concerned he was threatening President Bush.
The letter by Dan Tilli, 81, was published in Monday's edition of The Express-Times of Easton, Pa. It ended with the line, "I still believe they hanged the wrong man."
Tilli said the statement was not a threat. "I didn't say who — I could've meant (Osama) bin Laden," he said Friday.
Two Secret Service agents questioned Tilli at his Bethlehem apartment Thursday, briefly searching the place and taking pictures of him, he said.
The Secret Service confirmed the encounter. Bob Slama, special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Philadelphia office, said it was the agency's duty to investigate.
The agents almost immediately decided Tilli was not a threat, Slama said
"We have no further interest in Dan," he said.
Tilli said the agents appeared more relaxed when he dug out a scrapbook containing more than 200 letters that he has written over the years, almost all on political topics.
"He said, 'Keep writing, but just don't make no threats,'" Tilli said of one of the agents.
It wasn't Tilli's first run-in with the federal government over his letter writing. Two FBI agents from Allentown showed up at his home last year about a letter he wrote advocating a civil war to unseat Bush, he said.
Also, anti-war protestors have been hounded by police....is this "freedom?" The answer is unequiviocly, no. Not at all. You see, when democratic freedom of speech is threatened by a paranoid government (I would like to say, "regime" as that seems more apropo), democracy is doomed to failure.
To me, the utlitmate American "freedom"--isn't owning a gun, or voting, or being able to do whatever you want with your life---democracy, the utlitmate freedom: is the right to say "NO!" The right to speak you mind without fear of retaliation. President Bush's govermnet--has stripped us bare of that essential freedom. My late mother used to say, "the only good GWB, was a dead, GWB." She meant it as a joke--although mum really did hate the man--but I wouldn't have put it past the Bushites to have interrogated a sick elderly woman. This is because these people are totally and hopelessly out of control. This is the sort of behavoior one might expect in Stalinist Russia.
It is a known fact (tho' the administration would have us believe otherwise) that GW is completely out of control--doesn't listen to anyone, is not mentally stable. I have this on good authoritiy, from someone closely associated to the White House. Someone who would have absolutely no reason to lie about such a thing.
I have thought, since the late 80's, that it's a distinct possibility that this country could once again see a civil war. The government has consistantly been taking and taking and taking from the middle and lower classes--and giving and giving and giving to the upper classes and corporations...and this has, in past history (the French and Russian revolutions spring to mind) led to massive civil unrest--and, eventually war. As long as the authorities continue to ignore the desperation (and this has grown in leaps and bounds since the Iraq war) of ordinary Americans---as long as governmental authorities remain massively paranoid and continuie to gag freedom of speech---this country is doomed.
Forget the bleedin' terrorists. The Bush Admin is doing a far better job of detroying democracy than any terrorist ever could. For over 25 years, the conservatives have pushed about the rules--even eliminating them altogether--to selfishly suit themselves, and it's backfiring on them. Democracy must, at minimum, be a 2-party system, and freedom of speech must be upheld at all costs--or, democracy is gone.
I would like to see Bush impeached. I have no wish to see harm come to him, although, if he were to be assinated, while I'd feel sorrow for his family, and would hate to see the upheaval such a crime would cause, to be honest, I wouldn't shed a tear for ol' GW. He's the worst president this country ever had--even worse than Regan, Hoover and Taft put together. And that's my opinion as a free citizen of a supposedly "free" nation.
