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[dr_pretentious]

Whatever your personal political views, I think you will all agree that the situation described here is extremely alarming. If I attempt to summarize it in any sort of detail, I fear I may begin hissing and spitting with wrath. I did a lot of my growing up on army bases. My father served in the Army for 20 years. In the military communities I grew up in, everyone understood and valued the importance of a politically neutral military. It was, for them, a matter of honor. The people who serve in our armed forces now do not hold their honor cheap. It should not be cheap in anyone's eyes. That they should be used in this way... No party has the right to make oathbreakers of them. Read it for yourself. Follow the links, if you like. Do your own searches, your due diligence as you feel necessary. Writing to your representatives with your opinion, whatever that is, would be all to the good.

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[anthonyjaycee.livejournal.com]

On a somewhat related note, I heard that Bush is now cracking down on people in the administration who leak information... like the information leak that lead to the domestic wiretapping scandal.

No word on whether or not this rule also applies to people in the administration who leak names of CIA agent operatives... :P


While the whole wrath-feeling thing is, of course, more of a personal type of thing from issue to issue... it's starting to become relatively obvious, in an "objective fact" kind of sense, that the Bush administration is making some huge mistakes, and is basically trying to pull anything it can, legally, semi-legally or (as we're seeing with your link) illegally, to attempt to hold onto power and/or to make itself look good.

I'm not sure at which point this observation switches over from "well, only the angry far left, and various sources that may or may not be especially unbiased, are telling us this," and, "holy cow-- everyone but the irrationally loyal parts of the Republican base is telling us this!" Oh well-- if this keeps going the way it's going, without anything changing, then there'll probably be another scandal next week, and then another one the week after that, and so on and so on...

Eventually, one has to start wondering how many people out there actually still don't realize that the emperor isn't wearing any clothes...

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

You know, I feel about this much as I do about M's ex-husband: every time I think he can't sink any lower, he does.

[elphaba-of-oz.livejournal.com]

In the last 5 years we have moved steadily down the road to fascism. I am astonished that this is ha[[ening in America. I want to leave the country but my sweetheart won't go for it. These years have given me a idea of what those who o-posed the Nazis in the 1930s and 1940s experienced. They must have been a little more gobsmacked every day until one day they woke up and realized they were living in hell.

We are frogs in a pot of water. The heat is on below us. We are sitting in our water, unaware theat the temperature is slowly creeping higher. If it keeps climbing we will boil to death.

I'll write a letter to Specter and (shudder) Santorum. They will respond as they always do. But I'll write again anyway.

[tokeiwakamidesu.livejournal.com]

I would suggest you call, actually. When I was working for Schumer I handled mail and phone calls, and the calls have a lot more impact. Also, you'll find out what the front office people have been coached to say.