are you now or have you ever been?

what year is this?

i am no longer amazed at what happens in this country. our civil rights are slowly ebbing away. we're concentrating on money and oil and wars. we SHOULD be concentrating on feeding, housing, healing and education ALL of the people of the world.

we're a bunch of idiots

Progressive editor details new McCarthyism
-dave zweifel

The Progressive's Matt Rothschild, heir to the editorship of "Fighting Bob" La Follette's magazine, has been collecting examples of Americans suffering the consequences of speaking their minds after Sept. 11, 2001.
He's reported on many of them in The Progressive and on the magazine's Web site under the apt headline "McCarthyism Watch," because that's exactly what so much of the infringements on civil rights are -- a reincarnation of Joe McCarthy's trashing of our Constitution.
Rothschild has now assembled 82 examples -- barely half of his collection -- in a new book that will hit bookstores in early July and should give all Americans pause on just where their country is headed.
Titled "You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression," the book tells the tales of American citizens suffering everything from the loss of their jobs to being subjected to investigations and hassling by federal, state and local officials, all because they dared criticize what their own government was doing -- a right we are supposedly guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution...........