Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has rejected former vice president Al Gore's call for a special prosecutor to investigate the legality of civilian surveillance by the NSA. Gonzales describes the program as "very targeted and limited," and that is supposed to make me feel better. Put aside for a moment (I know it's difficult) the fact that declaring a national emergency because of a fake war would give the executive branch any justification for spying without warrants. There is also the fact that only a fool would believe anything that comes from the White House because the lies have become too numerous to even list. Spying on citizens, encouraging inhumane treatment of detainees, and operating secret prisons are just the things we know about, but they are enough to make a total mockery out of the beliefs that America is a moral leader and puts its citizens' safety first.

Gonzales says "We need to know who the enemy is. We need to know what the enemy is thinking." Tell that to Jane Fonda, who was followed and spied on by the FBI for years, and whose official dossier contains fabrications of such outrageous proportions, they are very funny, if you don't count the fact that the Nixon administration--exploiting America's abhorrence to fact-seeking-- effectively smeared her for life. Or Yoko Ono, who, with her husband John Lennon, was dogged by the government for years because they were so "dangerous." Or Coretta Scott King, whose husband was a favorite spy target of J. Edgar Hoover, who tried to blackmail King and who encouraged him to commit suicide.

When imperialistic, corporatist, greedy creators of war are the ones deciding who the "enemy" is, you can bet that the enemy will be someone who stands against imperialistic, greedy warmongering.