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That must be why you are hiding behind a screen on anonymity, I guess. What are you afraid of? Surely you're not worried that if you reveal your real name, you will be retaliated against? The FBI is on Bush's side, after all, so you should have nothing to worry about.
What are you afraid of, really? That goes for all the other anonymous posters here.
Truth be told, many of them are likely employees of the major PR firms, all of whom have fleets of bloggers working the internet non-stop. Edelman, last time they publicly discussed it, said they had at least 30 people on computers around the clock, ready to flood comment sections at the drop of a hat.
Others are simply afraid of being publicly identified and losing their jobs in the corporate arcology. Or, it might hurt their future earnings potential within the corporate system - that's why those "radical anarchists" wear the face masks, isn't it?
Your anonymity is just a myth anyway, what with modern packet sniffers and NSA eavesdropping techniques.
By the way, recall when Glenn Greenwald accidentally wiped his interview with Noam Chomsky? Here is is Avi Lewis interviewing Noam Chomsky on the Iraq war - good stuff, with some interesting quotes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biyK7NgdCDA
That interview does show the lunacy of some on the left. Chomsky discussed a left-wing historian who hoped that Bush would win because that would lead to a collapse of the imperial project. This is the leftist version of right-wing Rapture: Waiting for The Revolution. That's the theme that Democracy Now also appears to champion - work to defeat Democrats so the Republicans win, in the hopes the Republicans will destroy the system with their greed and incompetence, leading to utopia...
So sad, really. The fact is that people who identify and define themselves with simple labels like "left" or "right" or "liberal" or "conservative" are nothing but brainwashed victims of the U.S. propaganda system.
Yours, Ike Solem
Freedom of speech - use it or lose it.
