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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> Not much to do with homesteading until "they/them" arrive at your place...
> As a nation we now hold secret prisoners, as a nation we invaded a
> country half way around the world and as a nation we have locked up a
> reporter who was counting on the First Amendment to protect her.

Judith Miller chose to go to jail rather than reveal her confidential 
sources. Ironically, she never published an article on the subject but 
there is reason to believe she possesses information useful to a 
prosecutor. The judge jailed her for refusing to give testimony to a grand 
jury, a system of investigation essential to determine cause for criminal 
indictment. The power struggle is between the judiciary and the media. It 
is not an issue of censorship or repression of a free press. If it were we 
could fight to the death against that tyranny.

The DC Whorehouse will act to give reporter-informant the protection now 
afforded attorney-client, doctor-patient and husband-wife only if it is 
subjected to intolerable public pressure, as they, too, each member of that 
compromised institution, have secrets they must guard from the people. The 
pressure is unlikely given the present political atmosphere and the 
ignorance, apathy and lethargy of the American citizenry.