I would like to give everyone a heads up on a wonderful book I found at my local Chapters. Suprisingly it was
in the clearance section for $2. Writen by Lewis H. Lapham, editor of Harper's Magazine, He lays to bare the
American media and politcal climate. Reaching as far back as the beginings of America in 1776.

This is from the inside cover of his book. I believe that fair use covers me on copying it here.

DISSENT IS DEMOCRACY. DEMOCRACY IS IN TROUBLE.
Never before, Lewis Lapham argues, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream conversation,
so marginalized and muted be a government that recklessly disregardes civil liberties, and by an ever more
concentrated and profit-diven media in which the safe and the salable sweep all uncomfortable truths from view.

In the midst of the "war on terror" which makes the hunt for Communists in the 1950's look, in it's clarity of aim
and purpose, like the Normandy landings on D-Day - we face a crisis of democracy as serious as any in our
history. The Bush administration makes no sercret of its contempt for a cowed and largely silenced electorate,
and without bothering to conceal its purpose the government coordinates 'not the defense of the American
citizenry against a foreign enemy but the protection of the American plutocracy from the American democracy"

Gagy Rule is a rousing and necessary call to action in defense of one of our most important liberties, the right
to raise our voicesin dissent and have those voice heard.