Cassandra Lewis

A hero is someone who risks everything in order to better society in some way. One of today’s great heroes is the whistleblower. Since regulation has been chipped away by the right wing, whistleblowers have stepped up and acted against the injustice that’s corroded the government and big corporations.

If it weren’t for the whistleblowers we wouldn’t know anything about what’s really going on–certainly we would know much less than we do today.

This is why the stories in The Washington Post and The New York Times about how the Supreme Court has ruled to silence whistleblowers who work for the government is one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever read–and I was born in Washington D.C..

These old men in robes who are supposed to protect the “living document” called The Constitution are suffocating it with their partisan corruption. They are running over The First Amendment like senile drunk drivers on a windy road.

Here’s a quote from Anthony M. Kennedy (I refuse to refer to him as “Justice”) from The New York Times: “When a citizen enters government service, the citizen by necessity must accept certain limitations on his or her freedom.”

This is the beginning of the end. When The First Amendment no longer applies to everyone in this country, (when there are free speech zones, and a law was just passed yesterday that prohibits protesting near funerals) then what do we have left? Before we know it we’ll find ourselves locked inside one of Bush’s “new programs” just for criticizing his regime.