[proud American in Canada]

Hellooooooo? Is there anybody out there?

jeesh... the fights between Bush supporters and Bush critics attract 1000+ posts...

Yesterday, FR was full of infighting about CFR, and how Bush screwed up, the SCOTUS screwed up, etc.

I saw a lot of passion yesterday. Where's the passion today, when we have a plan?

I've pinged everyone I can think of but no one seems to care, beyond the people that have responded here.

Pretty sad...

I know there a lot of people who love GW because of his love for the military. As a person who has military family--who got spit on in O'Hare airport, btw, upon returning from Vietnam--I understand that. I love how GW supports th troops.

And after 8 years of Clinton corruption, I can tell you that GW's inauguration was the happiest day of my life (ahem, besides the birth of my children and my wedding day).

:)

But we--and I'm talking to ANYONE who reads this, DU members or not--MUST realize that we have just given up a huge--well, not so huge, after all, it's just sixty days, right?--right.

We all, as Americans, MUST stand up for the First Amendment. And we should ALL, as Americans first, Democrats and Republicans second, demand that this law be repealed.

Why do you think the Founders put the First Amendment first? It is because they knew that without freedom of speech, and ESPECIALLY without freedom of political speech, the rest falls like a house of cards.

We--Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, Communists, whatever--cannot tolerate the first "brick in the wall" in stopping the freedom to express political opinions.

/end plea. Goodnight...

[Hoverbug]

This is a wonderful effort.

The fact remains though, that even if CFR is rescinded, the real damage has been done. The SC decision remains in law that the government has the legal ability to restrict free speech. The government now has a pre-approved wink-and-nod from the SCOTUS to ignore the Constitution.

I don't want to belittle the effort here. It is a good thing. But it aims at the wrong target. As on the Titanic, slowing the boat down after the collision(speed being the cause of the collision) didn't fix the hole in the hull under the waterline.

Get SCOTUS to reverse it's decision, and both CFR (the speed of the boat)and the real threat (the hole in the hull under the waterline) is gone in one stroke.

I wish you luck in the current endeavor.
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[Valin]

I saw a lot of passion yesterday. Where's the passion today, when we have a plan?


Because many here would rather curse the darkness than light a candle. Also if they really did something other than rant they might be forced to deal with someone who is less than 200% pure conservative, and we can't have that.