My heartfelt thanks to Bud Morgan for his guest column titled "Darkness Obscures America's Horizon" and to the Highlands Today for publishing it. I fear that the American public has submerged itself in a sea of complacency with respect to the gradual erosion of our liberties and the blind reliance on an administration which is systematically dismantling our democracy behind a veil of secrecy. Using fear as a smokescreen, the Bush administration has prevented public disclosure of activities which by Constitution and custom are the legitimate and critical concerns of both Congress and the American public. Our biggest danger is not the Islamic fanatic plotting against us in a cave in Afghanistan, but the public apathy which fear has instilled into the public discourse. ...more

November 19, 2007