by Jack Flak, LWW Today

The president says that it’s time to legalize secret prisons around the world, run by our CIA.

Traditional American values say that is not right.

But we do need to be vigilant. We the people have an opportunity to stand up to the terror around us, and also to the undoing of the national fabric. We have the power and the right to preserve our way of life for generations to come.

Will we let congress back the legalization of terror torture camps around the world?

If this country is in such grave danger that we need all these illegal things that the president has done to be legalized retroactively, if our very way of life is threatened by “fascist” terrorists in Iraq, if we need to defeat them there to stop them from coming here, then why does the president not call for the draft to be reinstated?

Would that not be the logical solution for the situation the president says we are in? Our military generals tell us we are under-manned and stretched to the limit.

However, even talk of a draft now would ensure that our Republican incumbents would lose the elections.

This begs one more question.

Does this mean soldiers who are returning to Iraq for the third and fourth time might have been replaced by fresh troops had it not been for the political fallout of the draft? Are our troops in harms way for three and four tours in Iraq for political reasons?

We all want to fight terrorism. Why do the same 150 thousand troops have to do it over and over again?

It is a long walk home.

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by Jack Flak, LWW Today

I asked a man on the street what he thought about the war in IRAQ. He said "Won't need no shadow man runnin' the government. Won't need no stinkin' war." He looked at me, checking me out. "Won't need no haircut! Won't need no shoe shine after the garden is gone! What will people say after the garden is gone? What will people do after the garden?" He just kept lookin' at me like I was crazy askin' about the war. He had bigger things on his mind. He looked like he was a hippie at one time. I don't really know what it was about him that made me think that, but he sure had an intense way about him.

He wasn't finished with me. He had been walking away but he turned and looked right at me. "Won't need no strongman walkin' through the night to live a weak man's day!" What the hell was he talking about? "Won't need no purple haze. Won't need no sunshine after the garden is gone!" That was it. He was definitely a hippie who had taken acid in the 60s. I pondered this. Did this mean he knew more or less than I did? Was his opinion tainted by taking drugs in the 60s? Had he been an environmentalist before it was cool? I remembered George Bush senior saying that Al Gore was crazy. Something about "chicken little." Look at them now, Al Gore is right and Bush was and still is wrong on global warming. Al Gore was worried about saving the planet and Bush was worried about saving cash. I was getting pissed. The man on the street just stood there looking at me going through my thought process. "What will people know after the garden is gone?" he asked. "What will people do after the garden?"

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