Letter to the Editor
FBI agent Mark Felt, who today revealed he was "Deep Throat" did the right thing more than 30 years ago when he leaked information that brought down a corrupt president. Some people will say that what he did was unethical, but that depends on where your loyalties are. We are a nation of the People, by the People and for the People. The first duty of all government employees is to the people, and not to the government or its institutions. It is the duty of all officials to reveal corruption and to protect the integrity of America.
Would something like this happen today? Unfortunately not. Today we have a level of corruption that far exceeds anything that was going on when Nixon was president. Today people put the government ahead of the people. Even if they did leak corruption the corporate press would never print it. And under the "Patriot" Act what Nixon did would probably be legal. Nonetheless I want to thank Mark Felt for being loyal to the people of this great country.
I've finally after almost 2 years made it to the top of the pile for IRS not for profit status for the Church of Reality. I have a ton of work to do to get them new information and to answer the questions they sent me, but I am optimistic that they are going to "bless" reality with a religion.
I've been doing a LOT of work on the Church of Reality Web Site and it's really looking good. If you haven't been there in a while you will see a lot of new material to read. And - I even got a guy who is fixing the spelling and grammer errors.
Letter to the Editor
The Bush Administration is blaming the news media for violence by Muslims who are upset with news reports about the brutal torture of prisoners at American prison camps. They say these news reports are getting people killed. But it's not the news reports that are getting people killed, it's the news. The torture at Abu Ghraib really did happen. The Gonzales memo approving the torture really did happen. And the abuse at Gitmo as reported by Amnesty International really did happen. It's not the job of the news media to cover up for the presidents war crimes. If the Bush administration wants to stop the news reports I suggest that he stop doing the things that the news media is reporting on.