while it would not pertain to sitting in a crappy rental seat in a warehouse in the front row of a drug program being "rehabilitated" to conform, I am glad that I went through all that shit all those years ago, because it makes it all so much easier to digest and believe.
Thanks Bob, I agree. My father-in-law is a Republican. I can't stand being around him sometimes because I disagree so strongly with his views. I would never try talking politics with him, and it's kind of a strange knowledge gap. I feel like there is a part of me he won't ever understand. I sat down with both of them (in-laws) and talked to them about when I found out about
http://www.thestraights.com, this board, and the others. I ended up just talking to my mother-in-law about them though. Dad never said a thing to me about it. I know it was because I showed him articles with the
Bush name in them. Everything about these programs goes against what the Republicans would believe.
Sometimes I wonder if Dad thinks I'm just a disgruntled "druggie." I hate that even at 33 years of age, I can worry if someone thinks I?m a druggie. :flame:
I just know that there is wayyyy too much coincidence and evidence not to have a reasonable doubt about this administration. But the political argument is futile, and I'd rather not waste my time.
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I heard about this on NPR this morning:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5915547/site/newsweek/ Sept. 13 issue - In the summer of 2002, congressional investigators probing the September 11 terror attacks made a startling discovery. A college professor and longtime FBI informant in San Diego had dealt extensively with two of the 9/11 hijackers. The informant became close to the future terrorists after he'd rented them rooms in his house. The connection raised plenty of questions: What did the informant know about the activities of his housemates? And why hadn't the FBI said anything about the connection?
The discovery led to a closed-door confrontation between the FBI and Florida Sen. Bob Graham, co-chair of the joint House-Senate panel investigating 9/11. Convinced that the bureau was stonewalling, Graham tried to slap the FBI's chief counsel with a subpoena to produce the informant. "With the subpoena still in hand, I approached him, holding it inches from his chest," Graham writes in his new book, "Intelligence Matters," which deals with his efforts to get to the bottom of the 9/11 attacks. "He leaned back from the subpoena as it if were radioactive." The FBI counsel asked for extra time to see if something could be worked out. In the end, the FBI refused to allow Graham and his colleagues to question a crucial witness.
The function of the press is very high. It is almost holy. It ought to
serve as a forum for the people, through which the people may know freely what is going on. To misstate or suppress the news is a breach of trust.
--Mr. Justice Brandeis
