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was dumbfounded. Well over 100,000 Americans were barred from anywhere close to the White House, the home of their nation�s ostensible president, to exercise their Constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, yet these British tourists could walk right up to the fence. That didn�t make sense to me. It still doesn�t.

And so, while George Bush continues, without much success, to attempt to strong arm other nations into going along with his intention to make war on Iraq, Americans by the hundreds of thousands from Washington to San Francisco are saying no. Bush isn�t paying any attention to them. Even worse, the news media that can speak the truth because of the same Constitutional guarantees that demonstrators attempted to exercise, chose to say little, if anything at all.

What is going on here?
Regis T. Sabol is contributing editor to Intervention Magazine