why we should all become internal security threats

[Ed Jewett]

Well said, Peter. I get a lot of strange "warbling" on my -- serially-- TV, alarm clock radio, iPod speaker, computer speakers. I chalk it up to five possibilities: wandering momentary interference from the ubiquitous expanding spectrum of limited-range radios (as in trucks) (I live on the Northern boundary of the dense Bos-Wash megalopolis); spectrum expansion within the dense "forest" {they are designed to look like trees) of microwave transmitters for cross-country telephone; garage door openers and the like (chirping silently in the background); the presence of a broadcasting tower atop the hill across the river (complaints to the FCC allowed us not to have to listen to that station whether we wanted to or not); or the state security organizations whose operational bands include most of the commercial ones. I'm not paranoid. Just informed and realistic. (If they are listening, I trust they like Dave Brubeck.)

We and others like us are the necessary counter-balance, morally, intellectually, spiritually... We don't even need to organize so much as to stay informed and keep moving forward in informing and educating others. [I will report on Howard Gardner's "Five Minds for the Future" within the week, and his "Changing Minds" later.]

We are the guards who watch the guards who watch everyone.

A good read is Vladimir Bukovsky's "To Build a Castle" or James Douglass' "Resistance and Contemplation"; the latter really helped me to be at peace with what is going down and what my role is.

And I think Arundhati Roy, like Douglass, is a gift to us. There ought to be a special squad to alert others to her videos, articles, lectures... Wouldn't it be nice if these two and people like them could join us here at DPF? Well, they are busy being who they are being, so we must be their presence for them... to be the mirrors reflecting their light.