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call and response
June 22, 2005 11:51PM
a dozen days of echos
had me by Fireflies
and the Moon hanging at its lowest
do you know fiercely tender?
i liked your kiss but wondered
if there is a cycle to life
if the best parting gift could be
a choir of halos over tomorrow
blowing up a storm on behalf of memory
© 6/2005 Seven
Support our Troops
June 14, 2005 11:00PM
We Need More Deep Throats
June 01, 2005 11:52AM
We Need More Deep Throats
Thank You, Mark Felt
By MIKE GRAVEL
Former US Senator
W. Mark Felt, the assistant director of the FBI during the Watergate scandal, has admitted to being "Deep Throat." He was the source of important information for Washington Post investigative reporters Woodward and Bernstein. Felt's revelations and tips kept the investigation alive by pulling back the shroud of secrecy hiding the criminal activities of the Nixon White House.
Felt should receive the American Medal of Freedom for his courage and patriotism in defense of our democracy. The greatest threat to democracy is secrecy. It is a generic flaw of our representative system of government. Secrecy is endemic to government; it is the device government officialdom uses to hide the truth and to manipulate the media and the public, and is the slippery slope leading to tyranny.
The only antidote to the excesses of secrecy is the occasional patriot leaking the truth to the media or to the Congress. Unfortunately, the Congress is all too complicit in maintaining secrecy in government. Thank you, Marc Felt, for your service to freedom and democracy; let us hope that your revelation is an incentive to present-day whistleblowers. The need for whistleblowers has never been greater.
Mike Gravel represented Alaska in the US Senate from 1969-1981. He is now chairman of the United States Democracy Foundation.
www.counterpunch.org/gravel05312005.html
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