I don't know what your opinion of how close we are as a people living in a so-called "free" country, is, or if you agree with me that we are very close to losing our ability to live free, but my opinion is, as shallow as my thinking is and as un-read as I am and as poorly educated as I am, that we may lose our personal freedom to follow our desires very soon. Maybe in a couple of years, or less. The current regime in power in Washington is enjoying almost absolute power. They have carefully cultivated a group, you might even call it a cult, of "true-believers" who exercise extreme power and influence over certain very large groups in our country. They own the Supreme Court, they own the Senate, they own the White House and they certainly own the slavish House of Representatives. They have all the power, enough to intimidate the timid Democrats who say they are the "opposition party". There is no Democrat who has the ability to lead and the guts to speak out for our rights, mine and yours. Do you know of one? Name him/her. Certainly not Daschle, not Pelosi, not Gephardt.

The cult that is bent on taking away our rights, yours and mine, have so meticulously planned and executed the takeover, most of the citizens in this country are not even aware of it. True, some have vague feelings of unrest, thinking that something must be wrong with our government letting people like Clarence Thomas and the rest of the Supremes shove a jerk like Bush down our throat. I thought, "Well, that is just horrible, but we will certainly throw out all his henchmen in the House and Senate in 2002 and cripple his chances of taking absolute power". So few of us cared that we were about to lose our rights to control power that some did not even go vote! And so, by not voting those people have brought us to this, America's lowest point since its taking of freedom from the Imperialist British. And now, the King, sitting in the oval office, is the new Imperialist... the hegemon, and most people in this country are ready and happy to give up their precious rights to please HIM... His Majesty King George Bush.

Is it over? When you die, will you be known as the last of the free? Will you trade your rights and mine for a false feeling of security? Are you such a coward that you will not speak out to others about this cult that call themselves Christians? However you decide, that is do nothing or speak out to your friends and neighbors, freedom is yours to keep or to surrender.