William Rivers Pitt is a high school teacher -- the one you wish you had in school: outraged, committed, informed, passionate, curious, thoughtful and damned angry that American democracy has been put up for sale.
Since the ugly little fraud called the 2000 presidential election, he's bust out of the confines of the classroom, laying it all out in common sense editorials on that website nonpareil, Trouthout.com. Lucky us, we've got here a budding new Tom Paine, and just in time. Today's papers carry the news that our President is planning an "internal espionage intelligence agency." Hey, if he doesn't have a name for it yet, I suggest we call it the "KGB."
It's like a circus gone haywire: the clowns pile out of the Volkswagen and announce they're from the Fatherland Security Department and they're going to save us from the Enemy Within. It's that Cold War tricksterism all over again -- the old "duck and cover" and "don't look at the flash" hoodoo. And once again, big money media is part of the dissent-silencing machinery.
Now comes one enraged, engaged teacher; and boy, does he have a lot to say. So listen up: he's not a partisan pundit; his voice originates from the best of America's values, regardless of party or ideology.
I'll be proud to have his name near mine on John Ashcroft's Blacklist.