Hating Our Kind Of Freedom

--> by Mark Adams

If you haven't been keeping track of the latest tribulations of investigative reporter Greg Palast, you'll be relieved to hear that he's been released, unharmed.

And he didn't even have to convert -- to Republicanism.

I'm sure that if forced to save his skin, he would have choked out the words, "There is no God but Exxon, and Cheney is it's prophet."  But he would have felt dirty afterwards.

Reporter Palast Slips Clutches of Homeland Security: "One of George Bush's weirder acts in office (and that's saying a lot) was to move FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, whose main job is to save us from floods and earthquakes, into the control of the Department of Homeland Security. Exxon's refineries, once 'pollution source points' scrutinized by government watchdogs, are now 'critical infrastructure' protected by federal hounddogs.

As the front lines in the War on Terror expand from Baghdad to Baton Rouge, we find that America has been made secure only against hard news and uncomfortable facts."