Americans have no right to know what went on in the meeting between Dick Cheney and the energy companies. Americans have no right to know how the programs used in the electronic voting machines work. Americans have no right to know what BP is doing or plans to do regarding the oil spill. As a matter of fact, Americans have no right to go to public parks and see the oil spill clean up work being done. It would seem that other than being used to print the coming tsunami of corporate financed campaign ads, America has no want or need for a free press to keep citizens informed so that they can vote intelligently.
It would also seem that the Supreme Court based their decision on the old folk wisdom: "After you shake hands with a Republican, count your fingers."
Cynical curmudgeons will continue to regard all politicians as they would a snake oil salesman as portrayed by W. C. Fields. Dittoheads will be the first to second the Charles Dickens Republican attitude of "God bless us every one." (Was Dickens predicting Uncle Rushbo when he wrote: "He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly reasonable man." in Bleak House?)
Perhaps it is time to change the motto on money from "In God We Trust" to "Caveat Emptor."
Rudyard Kipling was ahead of his time when he wrote
"If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied."
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