Martial Law

Quite astonishing - - Osama bin Laden released a tape today. As soon as that tape appeared, all the Arabic websites in the United States, all the sites that might have had the tape for download, went down. I asked on my program several weeka ago, "what would the U. S. look like under martial law, under the executive orders the insane Bush has issued? Several callers put out ideas but none of us came up with the obvious tactic - - shutting down the web - - web sites, email, news, everything. Today our lack of attention came up to bite us. This is scary and I do not see the corporate media reporting on the issue although CNN did have, for one brief moment, a commentator who mentioned the shutdown. Her sigment was not, as far as I know, repeated again.l

My summer off is quickly coming to an end, in fact I had to play being union president the past few days. Talk about a wrenching experience - - yanked back into the world of work after 10 wonderful weeks reading, gardening, walking Frieda the Wonder Dog, visiting friends. That is all great fun but I would like to be working on my new book but injury to my back keeps me from sitting for any length. It's gone on long enough now that I'm having a desk built so I can stand to write.