QUADKITE: 7/1/07

We used to be the good guys.

Oct. 5, 2006

Senator Feinstein,

Quoting from your email,

" I firmly believe that detaining and interrogating enemy combatants is a justified and necessary part of war. How we find a proper balance is not an easy question to answer. "

It IS an easy answer!

This is not unlike the equivocating NON answer I received from you with respect to America's election crisis, where you thought the Help America Vote Act was something you could proudly point to as a solution.

We treat PRISONERS OF WAR in accordance with the Geneva Convention as we have always done. We do NOT torture. We SET the example! Your lack of leadership in defense of this issue and many other issues that define and distinguish our nation in the world has caused me to regret my previous support of you as our senior Senator.

You'll never again enjoy my support or my vote.

Regards,

Michael Guttormson
San Diego, CA

It looks like the Fascists won

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The issues raised in this book, however, only add to my pessimism. Based on the performance of the Democratic Leadership in Congress, I have no doubt that Fascism has itself firmly established in this Country, and that the trappings of constitutional government will remain present only so long as it doesn't impede the corporatist's agenda. I dispute those who argue the Democrats lack the courage of their convictions. The Democratic Leadership (Howard Dean notwithstanding) is every bit as interested in Government of, by and for the corporations as the Republicans are. Witness the proposed immigration law. Witness insourcing and outsourcing of American jobs, Witness the SECRET "FREE" TRADE DEAL. Witness the utter capitulation on Iraq Funding. Witness the lack of consumer protection against Gas Price Gouging. Witness the revamped bankruptcy bill which force wounded Iraq vets to pay off massive debts while letting the rich protect their assets off shore.

I don't know. I'm exhausted. The Democrats are in lock step with their corporate benefactors. This nation is beyond redemption. We are the Wicked Fascist Empire. We are the bad guys. There is no issue on which the U.S. takes the right side anymore. None. Susan Davis, Dianne Feinstein, Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, Joe "Real Deal" Biden, are corporate lackeys, willing to sell out Labor and the environment and our troops to the whims of the Corporate Emperors.

So I will continue to publish my little webpage, but I have no doubt I'm pissing in the wind, and by and by I'll take it down and retire to my despair.