I heard this report on

KUNM radio (one of the best news reports I’ve ever heard produced by KUNM; here’s the link to page with link to the audio — worth a listen).

Summary –

1) Like hundreds, if not thousands before her, a disgruntled citizen writes a letter to the editor of the Alibi

expressing her outrage at BushCo’s incompetence and deceipt.

2) Her government employer confiscates her work computer, after she

tells them she did not write the letter at work, as a part of a necessary check on “any act which potentially represents sedition” (definition: Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority

of a state. Insurrection; rebellion.)

No reason to fear for your right to free speech. I guess we can be glad she didn’t simply

“disappear.” That comes in Bush’s third term (when he can’t trust anyone else to protect AmeriCo like he can). mjh

PS: I recommend you read The Sedition Act of 1798 — I

think you and I may very well be guilty of violating that act. But then, Lush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly have probably violated the act

in the past.

alibi .

september 15 – 21, 2005

Wake Up, Get Real

Dear Alibi,

I am furious with the tragically misplaced priorities and

criminal negligence of this government. The Katrina tragedy in the U.S. shows that the emperor has no clothes!

Bush, Cheney,

Chertoff, Brown and Rice should be tried for criminal negligence. …

We need to wake up and get real here, and act forcefully to

remove a government administration playing games of smoke and mirrors and vicious deceit. Otherwise, many more of us will be facing

living hell in these times.

Laura Berg
Albuquerque

ABQJOURNAL: ACLU Wants Apology to VA Employee Investigated on ‘Sedition’

VA human resources chief Mel Hooker said in

a Nov. 9 letter that his agency was obligated to investigate “any act which potentially represents sedition,” the ACLU said. …

Berg, a clinical nurse specialist, wrote a letter in September to a weekly Albuquerque newspaper criticizing how the administration

handled Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq War. She urged people to “act forcefully” to remove an administration she said played games of

“vicious deceit.”

She signed the letter as a private citizen, and the VA had no reason to suspect she used government

resources to write it, the ACLU said.

“From all appearances, the seizure of her work computer was an act of retaliation and a

hardball attempt to scare Laura into silence,” the ACLU said.

ACLU-New

Mexico Weblog – ACLU Protests Investigation of VA Employee for “Sedition”

So,

Duhbya, the oil man, standing in front of Cheney, the oil man, in a year in which oil company profits have exceeded any in history, on

the day that begins the trial of an oil con-artist, and, ignoring all irony, declares America has an oil addiction. Standing in the very

chamber where countless scoundrels have sought repeatedly to sneak in the rape of ANWR to any unrelated legislation. Was that a howl of

laughter or outrage that swept the land this morning?

MR may have said it best: “he could have said this right after 9/11.”

Indeed, imagine the hundreds of billions spent on Iraq having been spent over the last 4 years on alternative fuels or public

transportation.

Now, as someone who believes America has a serious oil addiction and is currently ruled by the pushers, I wish I

could be happy that Duhbya finally sees the truth. I wish I could ignore that everything he turns his attention to is destroyed and hope

that that won’t include alternative energy, conservation and the environment.

But when someone says, “here’s the truth!” while

ignoring how that truth completely contradicts everything he has said and done his whole life, he should at least acknowledge his

conversion and might have the graciousness to say, “you know, they were right and I was wrong.”

Instead, when someone says,

“here’s the truth!” and acts like he has always had this truth, it sounds like a cynical trick to shift the focus of the nation and/or

to steal the arguments of his opponents. You know, “Republicans — the Party of the Prius!”

If there were a god, the earth would

shake at this arrogance. mjh

Friends and Neighbors, Our Exalted Leader,

Duhbya, is comin’ to town Thursday night through Friday morning. Time to go up on your roof and leave him a greeting. I’m

trying to choose from these:

if lies were oil
we’d have a gusher

out, out
damn
duhbya

bush
be
gone

flunk bush

dump duhbya

impeach bush

Kenny Boy Lay & Jack Abramoff say hi!

Bush
Abramoff
Lay

DeLay

BUllSHit (an old favorite)

Add your own ideas in comments or send me photos of your greeting. I’ll post them on

www.rooftoprevolt.com.

peace, mjh

Cutting the corruption by Arthur Levitt Jr.

Now

removed from Washington and viewing its problems from the perspective of the private sector, I’ve come to think that our federal

government is plagued by some of the same problems that have been hurting corporate America, primarily a lack of transparency,

accountability and independence. As with many of the disgraced corporations of the past few years — Adelphia, Tyco and WorldCom, for

example — so it is with Congress: Conflicts of interest abound, oversight has been myopic and those given the public’s trust have used

it to enrich themselves. …

[L]awmakers need not look far for an example of how to reform themselves. Just as Congress passed the

Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002 to clean up American industry, it should pass similar legislation to clean up American government.

I highly recommend you read the entire piece linked above. These are practical suggestions for cleaning up a

process from someone who has mucked out other stables. mjh

PS: The Albuquerque Journal titled this “Our

Congress Cannot Police Itself” — which is not at all the message of this piece.