A Fight for the Country
Sometimes it seems to me that we have a government at odds with the people of this country, a government intent on imposing values on the American public that are at odds with the best traditions of American freedom.
For example....
The New York Times reports that NASA has quietly altered its mission statement to delete any mention of Earth.
From 2002 until this year, NASA
’s mission statement, prominently featured in its budget and planning documents, read: “To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can.” In early February, the statement was quietly altered, with the phrase “to understand and protect our home planet” deleted.
Why does this matter? Because it's an attempt to ensure that NASA can't consider the problem of global warming.
Without [the language pertaining to Earth],
scientists say, there will be far less incentive to pursue projects to improve understanding of terrestrial problems like climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
President Bush has often said that we are fighting a war on terror to spread freedom abroad...and yet, his freedom has a distinctly Orwellian cast.
In related news, Christine Axsmith was a CIA contractor who wrote a blog available only to people with security clearance on issues of interest to that community, such as the caliber of food at various canteens. On July 13, after writing a blog post, Axsmith had her blog pulled down, lost her security clearance, and was fired.
The subject of the last post? "Waterboarding is Torture and Torture is Wrong."
It's not just a war for freedom overseas, is it? It's a war for freedom at home. A war over what kind of nation we really are—what we stand for, what we believe in, how we live our lives.
So far, I'm not sure who's winning.
