Message from Ron Kovic

I'm sure a lot of you remember meeting Ron Kovic during our march against Bush in London last November. Whilst corresponding with him about someone wanting to interview him, he passed along this message (edited for relevance and spelling/punctuation):

Dear Luke, of course I definitely remember you from London ...and the great march to Trafalgar Square that day with all of us leading the way!... I hope you're well [...] my very best to you Luke and all the other courageous American expats for peace in London, and all over Great Britain! Please keep up the good work, and know you will always have my full support! Have a great summer!

Most sincerely,
Ron Kovic

Well we certainly appreciate the support, Ron! Good to know we've got folks like you on-side.

Comments

[j.j.]

In a May (2003) terrorist advisory, the Homeland Security Department warned local law enforcement agencies to keep an eye on anyone who "expressed dislike of attitudes and decisions of the U.S. government." Mike van Winkle, the spokesman for the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center told the Oakland Tribune, "You can make an easy kind of a link that, if you have a protest group protesting a war where the cause that's being fought against is international terrorism, you might have terrorism at that protest. You can almost argue that a protest against that is a terrorist act."

If true, this should wake up everybody! This means that anybody, and I mean, ANYBODY, is a potential candidate for indefinite imprisonment in a gulag. This is a scary potluck stew of neo-McCarthyism and Orwellian 1984 merged into one. I shit you not, this is the first time I am worried about the condition of our democracy. Since I am such a frequent critic of government attitudes and decisions, does that mean I am about to be thrown into an internment camp like Japanese-Americans in WWII?

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/01/04/INGPQ40MB81.DTL

[jj]

and as if on cue, this is from AP:

U.S. Wins Dubious 'Big Brother' Award
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040728/ap_on_re_eu/big_brother_awards_1

[Keike Twisselmann]

Just flicked through your site & wanted to give you my deepest support from Berlin (Germany)!!!
The shit still hits the fan in Iraq & God knows where next... (06.02.2007)
Lots of LOVE, Keike.