June 2005

KOMO news in Des Moines, Iowa has reported that 57 year old Cecilia Beaman, a middle school principal, is now on the terrorist watch list. Mrs. Beamen did the unthinkable. She accidently misplaced a rounded edged butter knife. To make matters even worse, she committed this felonious act while chaperoning 37 middle school students on a trip.

Seems more and more, the people of this country are becoming the criminals, and the criminals are becoming the saints. At least it is that way in the eyes of the government. As you can see by the new Dubya quote generator, even our President can make a mistake. Why is it that people in this country can no longer make a simple error? Is it true that we are now resorting to criminalizing those who made a simple mistake? And, are we now guilty until proven innocent?

If all this is true, then I must say congratulations to the terroists that struck us on September 11, for they have won. President Bush has said time and time again that they hate us because of our freedoms. Well we continue to limit those freedoms more and more. If that is the true reason they hate us, then are we not admitting our loss in this war? Have we finally stripped away the rights that have made us a great nation because of the failing war effort.

This is another sign that it is time Americans to take back America. This is our country that our forefathers fought and died for. Our government, by trampling the rights of its citizens, is now acting in a way that our enemies would. That is intolerable.

The full text of the article as reported on KOMO can be seen here.

The first President Bush, also what I like to call version 1, told Larry King in an interview on Tuesday that he would like to see his other son Jeb run for president "when the timing is right". He did how ever say that the timing now is not right.
This is could lead to one of the scariest dynasties this country has seen since the television series "Dynasty" in the 80's.
While he is not planning to run in the 2008 election, it shows that Democrats really need to pull together now and make a solid plan to take back over. We had a strong go during the Clinton years, but the press machine of the Republican party is a strong monster. I believe that the DNC under Howard Deans leadership will be able to strike back at the negative press the Republicans are good at generating. We can only hope.
Many people feel that the next Presidential election is too far off to even worry about, but in the world of politics you start campaigning the day you start your career as a politician and it does not end until you die. Even if you are not running you are still out there supporting other candidates and campaigning for them.
We need now, more than ever for citizens to stand up for the rights we are granted in the Constitution. Now is the time to start organizing and planning for 2008, as well as the 2006 Congressional elections. If we want to return our country to the proud democracy that was once envied the world over, then the Democrats must get back in control.