For living during a time when you can criticize the President of the United States and Congress and not get punished. Why should I say such a thing... well here's a bit of history... In 1918, a year after World War I began, Woodrow Wilson approved and Congress passed the Sedition Act which prohibited citizens from speaking out against the federal government or its political leadership ... and if someone did speak out they would be thrown into jail.
Sounds harsh huh... well it does to me because in this great land we have the right to freedom of speech. But under this law and the Espionage Act (which gave the federal government the power to censor printed material, including mail) many people were prosecuted. The most famous case was Eugene V. Debs... where a former Socialist Party candidate for President in 1912 was sentenced to ten years in prison for opposing the government's decision to enter World War I. If Bush had enacted this bill today there would be a whole lot of people in jail because of their opposition to the War on Terror (Cindy Sheehan comes to mind).Anyway, I bring up this factoid because with Obama's 100 days gracing the news left and right I wanted to share an article which is titled: 100 Days, 100 Mistakes from the NY Post... Quite the interesting read....
I never told you why I missed your reception...I knew the day you were getting married and seriously waited for the invite to come in the mail. Well, it never came. Until one day I was at Daniel's work and saw it on his desk. The day had passed and I never got to see you...For some silly reason, Daniel didn't know it had a back side with all the info on it. Hello! I'm sad that I missed your reception but was glad to find out I was invited :)
ReplyDeleteOh Megan of course you were invited!! I'm sad you guys missed it.. we'll just have to get together sometime.
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