We are an optimistic nation, a hopeful nation. Whatever our politics, we hope that our political and corporate leaders value our lives. This is a wonderful thing about America. But it does leave us somewhat open to manipulation, deceit, and betrayal. I think this Administration is disastrous to us in ways that are have been sufficiently transparent for some time but that many people don’t want to see or believe.

Fellow Americans, I do believe that more of us are beginning to understand. More information will only show how deep the damage goes.

Read, please. Read more. Ask questions. Find out. Pick an issue and find out everything you can about it - from different points of view. Put together your own ethical judgment - whatever it is. Become truly informed to your very best ability. Only in this way can we have a functioning democracy again.

Here are a few links to articles that I think are worth reading.

• Top ten power brokers of the American theocracy machine. View income, players, goals.
• George Lakoff on the meaning of freedom (progressives vs conservatives)
• Fifteen Things to Remember about Ken Lay and Enron- Joseph Palermo
• Garrison Keillor on Ralph Reed - still running for office in Georgia
• Bush Thinks he Can Rule by Fiat (Helen Thomas)
• Victory for Mexican President Blank-o (Greg Palast) - Election brought to you by ChoicePoint Inc. and the American Republican Party
• How America Lost its Way (Noam Chomsky) - Defining traits of a failed state: inability to protect its citizens, belief that it is above the law, lack of democracy.
• Who Owns What? - Columbia Journalism Review’s online guide to what major media companies own
• Infiltration of the Military by Hate Groups - We’re training and arming our own terrorists…
  

  Light infantry is your branch of choice because the coming race war and the ethnic cleansing to follow will be very much an infantryman’s war, he wrote. It will be house-to-house, neighborhood-by-neighborhood until your town or city is cleared and the alien races are driven into the countryside where they can be hunted down and ‘cleansed.’

  As a professional soldier, my goal is to fill the ranks of the United States Army with skinheads. As street brawlers, you will be useless in the coming race war. As trained infantrymen, you will join the ranks of the Aryan warrior brotherhood.