Listening to Joe Wilson re-running on C-Span, with Thursday's panel in the
basement. Heartened by this move, but with trepidation as a citizen with a
disability living in Section 8 housing with Medicare/Medicaid, food
benefits program, and other DFCS programs; other words, my roof and
living assistance are alleviated by the Patriot Act Big Brother
administration I stand against; also in Georgia, Republican-run; also
newly eligible for my prescriptions to be $5 apiece finally, January '06.

A voter for 40 years, absentee when hospitalized and in recent years.
An administrative career prior to this disabling event at age 40.
A signee and newsletter recipient with many protest-oriented organizations
prior to this one. Self-educated; regionally published writer. This
computer was a gift.

Many facets of this Administration's election and subsequent action have
remained infuriating to me, as well as the depressing absence of reportage
that the timing of "Deep Throat's" identity supplies grand emphasis. A
folksy President acting harmless in many press appearances, repeating rote
emphases in refusals to speak to what questions glare, crosses every line
of respect for the intelligence of Americans.

Hoping I don't get a knock on my door nor lose my roof in quieter circumstance, nor
lose my ameliorating programs or ability to buy my medications, and assuming I
won't be carried away by men in black, I offer my support wholeheartedly. As
we all know, we've lost rights, privacy and our earned and inherited reputation
as an active, participatory country with grievance address.

Those of us who buckle to powerful opponents imply that there is no recourse,
the most masterfully orchestrated threat of all.