STEWART UDALL, PART ZWEI

In writing the " Mtyhs of August" Mr. Udall exposed the myths of the time about the development of the atomic bomb and how it could change our world. In the conclusion of the book he had a sunny outlook on how the world could interact and get along in a peaceful manner without the need to waste valuable tax dollars on defense. Unfortunately the exact opposite has happened, Mr Udall didn't account for the fact that the American people just could'nt be bothered with the fact that the gov. was robbing them blind. Mr. Udall had some fantastic ideas that no one paid heed to so now I reach into my bag and throw them amongst the crowd like pollen during fall in the Carolina's.

He is saying these things in 1994 and how we bypassed them and let them happen is something for the psychiatrists to figure out.

-that secrecy is a poison to the body politic of our society

-that free access to and public dissemination of information is essential to the maintenance of free political institutions

-that the rule of law must never be comprimised, so that public officials will never entertain the thought that they are not answerable for their actions to the public that they presumadly serve.

What we have is ideas and principles fomented in the past which have been forgotten in the name of "terrorism". 40 or 50 years ago it was the Communists who were going to take over America, never mind the fact that we were way ahead of them in the nuclear arms race. The RED THREAT caused us to get the schools prepared for an attack by hiding under our desks. It seems almost laughable now but back then we felt safe. And through this book we can realize it was all a farce. The officials of the Gov. tricked us, there was no threat we were used to give these pusbags the go ahead to build up our armed forces, because we weren't safe. We needed protection and the more crazy and drastic the threats were the more we were afraid. It was all a farce just like the war on terror is. We are not in danger, even if you want to take a cynical point of view, hey only3,000 were killed on 9/11 but the general populous was safe. We have no reason to be afraid and we have no reason to take everything the gov. says as fact. All we have is to protect ourselves from the individual who can lay out millions of dollars to run for office. These people don't have the majority of Americans in mind, take a look read, ask questions because the Democracy we feel so good about is being thrown out. They don't care about Democracy ,they care about power. Be afraid, be very afraid.