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In the month after 9-11-01, I was listening to an NPR commentator on a lovely Sunday morning. He was a soft-spoken man whose name I cannot remember; he was one of many men of reason I listened to on the radio in those days.
On that day, he frothed. On NPR, the commentator called those who opposed Bush's coming invasion of Iraq traitors. He snarled and called opposition treason, a danger to our persons and aid to the enemy. This quiet NPR commentator.
Imagine, if you will, the last seven years where the most sane of voices on the radio, on public radio, called those who pointed out the madness traitors, and worse than traito. Imagine a country where none opposed Bush in the media of radio, TV, and newspapers. This could have happened, and we'd be waging WW III, the war against Islam, right now.
But we had a million voices bloom on the verges of the old phone system, posting marked-up text and pictures and video, calling the old voices fools and worse, and proving it.
Imagine the US without those voices. Imagine hell.
