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