Lights in the Darkness
Keeping Hope Alive in a Nation Gone Mad
by Tamara Baker

Mar. 18, 2003 -- SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA (APJP) -- Well, Usurper Boy and his evil minders have finally done it.

They're about to invade a country and kill outright a few hundred thousand civilians, most of them children, with their bombs and bullets. Then they will blithely ignore the chaos and infighting that will occur in Saddam's absence, and chuckle as they parcel out Iraq's oil and other resources among each other, pirates dismembering the corpse of a wealthy victim.

They've got their tame media stenographers "embedded" into their conquering armies. They'll totally control how the war is seen in America, and in much of Europe as well.

Or so they think.

What they didn't know, until today -- by which time it was far too late for them to prevent it -- was that intrepid journalist Philip Robertson, working for Salon.com, has already managed to get inside Iraq, and has filed the first of many dispatches -- uncensored, hard-hitting dispatches -- on the invasion.

Philip Robertson: A light in the darkness, a voice of hope.

Yet another light: The Senate Democrats, spineless in nearly everything else, have shocked even themselves and have held off a third Republican effort to break the Estrada filibuster. The Republicans are starting to worry now. Estrada will soon be slipping from the media radar screens, forced off by their own War for Halliburton. For once Democrats and liberals, realizing the extreme threat posed by Estrada (and disliking the dishonest means used to nominate him), are more determined than their foes to see a fight through to the bitter end.

And yet another light: Bill Hartung, as have so many non-Nazis appearing on Bill O'Reilly's FOX News show, has been screwed by the Spinmaster, who secretly cut off Hartung's microphone as Hartung was proving O'Reilly wrong on the air. However, Mr. Hartung is getting revenge by exposing O'Reilly's shameful trick -- and challenging the twerp to a debate on neutral ground, with no mic tricks.

O'Reilly, of course, has yet to respond -- he, like Rush Limbaugh, is scared to death of leaving his own sheltered workshop-cum-echo-chamber -- but when the word gets out, FAUX's already-tattered reputation will take yet another hit.

Meanwhile, the MoveOn.org have some more ideas for lights in the darkness:

One simple way to show your continued commitment to this vision is to put a light in your window. It could be a Christmas string or candle, a light bulb, or a lantern. It's an easy way to keep the light of reason and hope burning, to let others know that they are not alone, and to show the way home to the young men and women who are on their way to Iraq.

We'd like to keep a list of the places and people who are joining in this simple act. Please sign up now at:

http://www.moveon.org/windowlight/

You know what to do. Light on!