Does America have any freedom anymore?

President Bush is now saying the government can open your mail without a warrant.

We've had so many freedoms and liberties diminished or even destroyed under this President, that can it really be said that America is a free country at all anymore?

Here's something that bugs me: the most persistent of Bush's lackeys and followers are using the same tactics to deride critics of this man that were used by those faithful to Hitler back in the 1930s. I've actually heard some - quite seriously - say that to disagree with Bush is to exhibit mental illness. No doubt that those of us bringing up how wrong this latest action by Der Decider is will be called "unpatriotic" and "fifth columnist" by those who follow Fearless Leader because we dared question his "brilliant strategery".

I can't begin to describe how loathesome I find this kind of blind allegiance to a party or an individual... neither one of which has done anything honorable to command our loyalty.

The Democrats are taking control of the House and Senate today. Why should that even matter? The news channels are all over this story but the reality of it is: nothing will change. We just get one pack of jackals taking turns with another for a slobbering bite out of the fatted lamb that is the American people.

I know some people who were genuinely bothered that the Republicans were swept out in November. Personally, it made no difference to me. Because I understand that no matter who has the House and Senate, regardless of which party has "the power", that this country is still going to suffer loss. We are losing jobs and industry to foreign competitors. We are losing control over our borders. We are losing the right to determine our own destinies. We have lost having a government that is accountable to us. We are losing young people in needless conflict in a situation with no clear goal. We have lost basic liberties like freedom from unwarranted searches and seizures...

Why should I expect things to get any better just because another political party now has the reins?

When does this abuse of power stop?

This country now owes the old Soviet Union an apology. The United States government is doing the very same things that it used to brand the Communists in that country as evil for doing. At least the Soviets were honest enough to admit that they had only one political party running everything. We keep telling ourselves that we have "a choice".

Well, here's the choice as I see things: we either let "them" keep getting away with it. Or we could stop watching the damned football game and put down the PlayStation controller and quit drinking the cheap booze long enough to give "them" a hard kick straight in the ass.

And then keep kicking them while they're down. Kick them in the face, in the kidney, in the groin. Keep kicking them until they don't move anymore.

Either something changes real soon, or else we're looking down that same dark path that Hitler and Stalin and Pol Pot and damned too many other insane men have took their people.

And to anyone who still thinks that George W. Bush is "a good Christian man" and a "wise leader": I feel sorry for you. Decades from now, historians are going to look back on this period and wonder aloud "who were these poor delusioned fools that pledged their allegiance to such a morally damaged person?"