Our Fading American Ideals

On this 4th of July weekend it is comforting to see someone who, at his own peril, is defending the ideals that this country was founded upon. Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, a lawyer in US Navy, has stood against the oppressive winds of neo-con Fascism to deliver, at least temporarily, a refreshing whiff of true democracy and morality.

If they're guilty, let 'em hang, but we can ill afford to persecute innocents to satisfy the rabid blood-thirst of a defective, power-mad administration. I have experienced first-hand the extents to which this type of mentality will go to achieve any and all goals they deem personally profitable - and this cannot be allowed.

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