After reading some comments I decided to make a change. Daily Kos has been quite aflutter over the NSA spying. Nothing wrong with that. It's a damned serious issue.
But guess what? At least so far, no one has been arrested because of that spying. This is not so in the case of Chris Wilson, a Florida website owner who found himself in jail only a few months after "outraged" liberal bloggers went crazy about the content on his site.
To me, his case worries me as much as anything. It is one of those scary times where sound collides with color and the political continuum turns into a Moebus strip. You glance over in the dark, and suddenly you see a liberal and a wingnut standing together, one hand washing the other. That's when we all ought to look in the mirror and ask ourselves what, apart from our labels, we actually believe in.
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