V.A. Nurse Accused of Sedition After Criticizing Bush

"A Veterans Affairs nurse in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was investigated for sedition after she wrote a letter to a local newspaper criticizing the Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war. In her first broadcast interview, we speak with Laura Berg, as well as an attorney with the New Mexico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union."

Well now, speaking of Freedom of Speech. What a coincidence. This is pure political harassment of opponents to the government. Let's see, 'sedition'; Conduct or language inciting rebellion against the authority of a state. Hmmm, I guess this means I should certainly qualify as well, since I've openly called for an end to the bullshit coming from this government. I've certainly called for our politicians to get up off their sorry asses and abide by the Constitution, and should they fail to do their duty, it then falls upon the citizenry to force them to act.

And to be perfectly clear, the following words should be known, by heart, by every single American citizen, as well as every single U.S. government employee, including the President, who in fact, work for every single American citizen:

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security -- Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. -- The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world."

Those words, written over two hundred years ago, are still valid reason for opposition to tyranny. For my non-American audience (since all Americans should already know it by heart), you can read the rest of our Declaration of Independence here.

As for the original article, go to the page and read the interview of what happened to the nurse who dared exercise her Constitutional right to speak out against the government. Some people just don't get the fact that it's the DUTY of EVERY citizen to speak out whenever they perceive injustice, whenever they see signs of corruption, whenever they see their government acting in a tyrannical manner. It is the sworn DUTY of every public servant, including the President, to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, and if any or all of them cannot, or refuses to, they must be removed from their posititions of power.

If that be seditious, then damn it, so be it.