"Print out and distribute this flyer at your Independence Day celebrations. May these quotes serve to remind us all of the ideals and values upon which the United States." And while you're at it, commit each of these quotes to memory, and quote them to right wing "patriots" at every opportunity!

Garrison Keillor writes: "On this day [July 5th] in 1776, John Dunlap printed five hundred copies of the Declaration of Independence. Once the Declaration had been approved on July 4th, a draft was carried to John Dunlap, a Philadelphia printer whose newspaper covered the activities of the Continental Congress. He set up the Declaration that afternoon in Caslon type and spent all that night and the next day running the press. He placed himself in harm's way by putting his name at the bottom; if the Revolution failed, he would be hanged along with the rest. As soon as the ink dried, the copies were bundled up and carried to the thirteen colonies on horseback."

If you listen to the mainstream media, you would think that it was US weapons and Ronald Reagan that ended the Cold War and Communism. This interview on Wired.com with Lech Walesa, the former President of Poland and leader of the Solidarity movement in 1980, explains that it was the technology which gave Poles access to outside news and information and helped them put an end to communism. "Communism prevents organizations from developing by stopping the flow of information. The system is based on police and listening devices and triggers the worst characteristics in humans" said Walesa. The traits of communism seem incredibly similar to what King George and Mullah Ashcroft are doing with the USA Patriot Act and various Executive Orders.

During the 2000 campaign, Bush declared "there ought to be limits to freedom." Now he has begun imposing these limits, using the FBI's infamous "Carnivore" system which devours all data passing through a server, without a search warrant. Hours after the attack, FBI agents installed Carnivores at free e-mail providers, including Hotmail. But this is just a temporary measure, while "their 'main boxes were being set up at the Tier 1 carriers' - scary," said a network engineer.