Don't know about you guys, but I'd like my Constitution back.

Freedom and the Rule of Law: it is 2007 -- time for some accountability and a commitment to our nation and not just some ephemeral moment of its leadership.  The President is a placeholder for a brief moment in history.  The United States is more than a single Administration, and we must stand up for the principles on which this nation was founded.  I will no more allow George Bush to dictate my understanding of the meaning of freedom than I will allow Osama Bin Laden to dictate that I spend my life cowering in fear. 

I am an American.  I am not afraid.  And I refuse to be any less a patriot than that which my nation needs -- from 1776 forward until today, this nation has called forth to every generation to stand up and be counted as a protector of liberty.  As Dr. King so famously said, "A time comes when silence is betrayal."  I will not be silent.  Not now.  Not ever. 

We hand over our rights to a false protector at our own peril.  I refuse to do so -- silently or otherwise.  They are my rights, they are my liberties, and they are my responsibility to protect -- every day of my lifetime. 

It is equally the duty of members of Congress, who have sworn an oath to preserve and protect the Constitution and the laws of this nation of ours, to ask the questions and demand the adherence to those same laws by the Executive branch, a job which has not been done by the Republicans who abdicated this solemn responsibility in favor of a grab at the power ring and a few trinkets, and who heard the will of the American public in November rejecting that craven, self-centered dereliction of duty.  For shame.

It is 2007.  The time for accountability is now.  For liberty.  For equal treatment under the law.  For freedom.