the FCC rules changes of 2003 that went largely unnoticed by the general public. In your opinion, is there any relationship between the government's propaganda efforts and MSM's complicity (esp NBC) in promoting the war in regards to these changes? If memory serves the consolidation of media ownership and the very threat of this type of deliberate manipulation was a primary fear of such changes.

http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/fccchanges.html

Thank you for your efforts.

I found this quote in a Wikpedia article on Lincoln. The final sentences seem appropriate for the position you're advocating. I included a bit of a lead-in to give it a proper context.

Lincoln returned to politics in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), which expressly repealed the limits on slavery's extent as determined by the Missouri Compromise (1820). Illinois Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, the most powerful man in the Senate, proposed popular sovereignty as the solution to the slavery impasse, and incorporated it into the Kansas–Nebraska Act. Douglas argued that in a democracy the people should have the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery in their territory, rather than have such a decision imposed on them by Congress.[17]

In the October 16, 1854, "Peoria Speech",[18] Lincoln first stood out among the other free soil orators of the day:[19]

[The Act has a] declared indifference, but as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I cannot but hate it. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world — enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites — causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity, and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty — criticizing the Declaration of Independence, and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self-interest.[20]

Many thanks for your efforts to keep the light shining in the dungeons of our failing republic.

...a modicum of modesty would mediate your megalomania. I find little purpose in quoting yourself so profusely, especially one who is thoughtful and talented. The siren song of your own voice will only serve to undermine the quality and substance of the good you provide. Cut it out!

All the same, I'm proud of your work and the service you provide. Thank you.