I'm not even sure if Canada is far enough away, if McCain gets elected.

I've read a good portion of the letters. I get that you're all angry and disappointed. I do, I get it. I am, too, but I still am aware of the stakes.

So, go ahead and vote for that clown Nader. Let McCain win the presidency, and end our democracy.

Our judiciary is already stacked with lifetime appointees who got their law degrees out of a Cracker Jack box, and who believe the president should have kingly powers. Everyone talks on and on about the Supreme Court, but there are a LOT of federal courts, not just the Supreme Court, and they are trying to rewrite our constitution. Our founding fathers would have hung the lot of them as traitors.

Furthermore, the right wing has assaulted the right to vote more passionately, and with more creativity, of late, than we've ever seen before. George Bush picked up right where Nixon left off. In the past two presidential elections, we've seen voter suppression, missing ballot boxes, extra ballot boxes, as well as black box voting machines invented by right wing financial donors, and that's barely scratching the surface.

So, fine. Vote on the fourth amendment. Write in Kucinich. If McCain wins, I'll move to Vancouver, and watch you all crash and burn, because I will not lend my name to tyrants who practice mass murder, and mass torture. That's what McCain stands for, now. And that's what you stand for, too. You implicitly endorse his policies if you allow him to win, and especially if you stay here and continue to pay for it with your taxes. That's blood money, whether you like it or not.

Obama isn't the messiah. He made a stupid, boneheaded decision, and if he gets into office, he'll make more of them. But, when 2012 rolls around, you will still have the right to vote, and you just might even have a transparent election.

All of you who are staying home, or voting 3rd party can truly go fuck yourselves. I've had it with your shit. I have highly technical skills, and I frankly don't have to sit for it.

I feel truly, and deeply sorry for all of the people who do have to sit for it, and who will be completely destroyed by your little temper tantrum.

Betrayal. <.!.> I raise a cup of tea and agree. Betrayal is the deepest hurt. It's real pain.

So, since the hurt and pain is increasing, we need to be honest and soothe each other.

Betrayal!

O Awklib.

Heres a sip of Milk Thistle, Dandelion, and a cup and saucer with powerful Burdock Root.

Thank you.

What exactly is the dreaded "warrantless wiretapping"? It's hard to tell because it is in the best interest of those whipping up your ire to keep the actual issues murky.

No, it's hard to tell because it is in the best interest of those trying to pacify you to keep the actual issues murky. It is hard to tell because every single player who has some inkling of what the Administration has actually been doing refuses to say.

It is also hard to tell, because the House bill does not in fact say anything about individual taps being placed on individual foreign agents. The old FISA law did that. This one merely says that the Attorney General is to submit some secret, yet to be determined, plan for listening in on calls with one end in the United States to the secret FISA court. No one but the President, the AG and the secret court will know what that plan is, or what it involves, all the way up to tapping every single call into or out of the country.

Once the secret FISA court secretly approves the secret plan, the AG goes off and taps whatever he likes for six months. The court is not allowed to inquire into what particular taps are placed. Its sole oversight consists of secretly approving or rejecting the secret six-month plan. An intelligence apparatus willing to break the law - as Bush himself has acknowledged it was doing for six years - will have a wide open playground to break it in, with nary an adult in sight.

There are only two things we know for certain about that six month plan. First, that it will not consist of what you pretend to envision, a set of justifiable individual taps on individual foreign targets. Because if it did, the old FISA law would have provided everything needed.

And second, that it will be abused to listen in on political opponents. Because in the absence of oversight, that's what every administration from FDR on, Republican or Democrat, did. As the Church committee investigation demonstrated, which was why the old FISA was created in the first place. Bush will abuse it. McCain will abuse it. Obama will abuse it. As the Founding Fathers, whom you hold in such deep contempt, understood: that is the nature of power.

The Obamite Dumbocratic capitulation to this ongoing assault on the Constitution exemplifies the "Evil of the Two Lessers." There is no longer any excuse, other than specious lesserevilism, for progressives to support Obama.

Nader/Gonzalez (currently polling at 6%) is the meaningful alternative for progressives, just as Barr/whoever is the meaningful alternative for honest conservatives.

I have to go visit the Canadian Consulate Office. Maybe we can car pool? Maybe we can chip in on the muscle power and ride a two/4/two peddle tricycle. You can go along with me to the Consulate on one of those three wheel bikes or a unicycle with me to DC? I am half-serious.

Honest.

No ride a CAT ferry or you get in more and more deep trouble.

We are in deeper waters, so-to-speak, than we will dare admit!

I think one of the biggest reasons such abuses of power go unchecked is because of the way mainstream media presents the issues. They don't. All most people ever read are varnished uncritical fawning cover pieces which all essentially repeat the same AP newswire milk and toast news. You could write a book about the reasons behind the media's complicity in the dumbing down of America, but whatever the reasons, the point I'd like to make is that anything that would increase the public's exposure to critical analysis such as yours would help.

I don't know how much time you can afford to market yourself, but you really are doing the world a service. Use that 300,000 to buy a giant megaphone, I dunno (that would probably not go over so well, but really, I certainly wouldn't object). Of course, we'll have to put some checks on your power when you get too big for your britches, but right now you're David against Goliath. We know how that turned out one time, but unfortunately that story usually has an alternative ending.