In the first twenty-four hours after we announced our site, quite a few veterans signed on to the statement. But a small minority sent hate-mail. To give you a picture of the tone, I’ll quote three of them:

“Get over your-stupid-selves. Dumbass Liberal pussies.”

“I say turn the place into glass!”

“Where in God's name did you ever get the idea to countermand the commander in chief of our nation?”

Ok. I have to take exception to this. Let’s make one thing clear – George W. Bush is indeed the commander-in-chief of the military, but last I heard, the President works for the people, not the other way around – even if they didn’t vote for him.

Since when did patriotism equal silence? Did that happen about the same time peace activists were added to the “no-fly” list? Will we let the terror war, or the Iraq war, or the oil war, or whoever it is we’re fighting this week destroy the very foundations of our democracy?

It’s time for people to sit up and pay attention. We’ve reached a turning point in history, where Americans say they’ll cash in their freedom and liberty for security. We defeated communism and dictatorship, so now we’ll try capitalism and dictatorship?