"I've been watching the cable news channels all day the past few days (your tax dollars hard at work) and no matter who reports on it, no one ever asks what Mr. Ivins's motive was, nor do they ask why Daschle and Brokaw were targeted. Certainly they never report about how the anthrax attack was blamed on Islamist terrorists (or Iraq) back in '01. Oh and by the way, these attacks that used a biological agent created in our own military labs was the biggest reason why I was forced to recieve a potentially harmful vaccine against said substance last year."

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This is a great point by the active duty yet anonymous marine. The msm (they deserve no capitalization) has not asked many of the hard questions.

I have one that they should ask of themselves. How the hell did the media allow the attacks to be justification for the blatant murder of so many innocent Iraqis? How did they just take Bush's line and spew it forth as gospel 24/7 without ever looking to see if they were a party to a war crime?

Glenn, if you are reading this mess still, I think a post on the msm responsibility for their reporting back then might be in order. It would be great if you could interview a media expert on the radio about that subject.

I didn't open it. I blocked the domain name. Anyone else get such an email? Anyone have any clue as to why an email such as that would be sent to me, or if the email is bogus or not?

-- Kitt

Have you been posting on that evil Greenwald's blog? :-)

If you want, you could forward it to me and I'll look at it while using one of my test OS partitions. In Linux, we usually have little to fear from a worm or virus from the letter if it is a scam.

Let me know.

"The FBI does not send out e-mails soliciting personal information from citizens." (from official release)

Because they already have all your personal information!

:-)

Rather than investigate and punish violations of the Constitution and other laws, our political class conceals those crimes for as long as it can, endorses them when they are disclosed, and then acts to protect the lawbreakers. Public opinion is steadfastly ignored, rendered virtually irrelevant. Congress has deliberately made itself completely impotent, while the sprawling Executive enjoys virtual omnipotence and freedom from any real accountability. Laws are written not just for, but literally by, the largest corporations and their lobbyists -- even including, as we recently witnessed, laws that have no purpose other than to immunize them from consequences when they are caught deliberately breaking our laws.

--Glenn Greenwald

The paragraph identifies the main problem with our government; it is out of control. Since violations of the "law of the land" go unpunished, we have no effective control. I could identify "high crimes", that are public knowledge, on the part of every administration since WWII (and even before that, of course) that have gone unpunished. This movement of yours is a great first step, and I pray you have all the luck in the world with this coalition.

I would add an idea. I think the movement needs to try for a constitutional amendment that strips the executive of all powers of pardon and sets up a permanent, independent council that has the function of investigating the executive branch for constitutional violations.

In others words, the system is broken and you can not fix the underlying problem with "better men and women" in office. (although I applaud you for treating the symptoms of the disease)