A few days and a few years ago, a man named Atta, along with his henchmen, hijacked a few of our commercial jets and deliberately flew them into predetermined targets, killing hundreds of our fellow countrymen.

In retaliation, our President took us into war upon a region that had nothing whatsoever to do with the attack.

But we caught a bad guy by the name of Saddam Hussein, and we were told to be proud.

Yeah, okay, so we took out one bad guy in a world of many bad guys. But we didn't take out the bad guy that allegedly plotted the downfall of all those commercial flights, and all those helpless victims in the Twin Towers, surrounding areas, and the PA flight, and the flight that hit the Pentagon.

But, we took out Saddam Hussein. Yay! Woo Woo! Good for us.

Meantime, we took out all of our standing in the world, all of the respect that other countries had for us, and we took out all of the tolerance that we, and other countries, have.

Yay...wooh....whoah....

Then, we lost our rights as citizens of our own country, and we tossed away the rights of immigrants and students of darker skin and foreigh accents, by declaring an undeclared war against anybody different, and anybody using the internet and/or a cell phone.

Then, we lost our voting rights in this election through Alberto Gonzalez and HIS OWN band of merry henchmen, and we still didn't utter a peep.

Now, the US wants money to save the US from having to be owned by other countries.

And you all want the right to bash one another over the heads here at TPM Cafe, a humble little reader website daily blog, because day by day we've lost our rights and don't know who to cry to?

I'm sorry, but do we not look very stupid, and petty, for whining about our rights these days?

Get up, shut up, speak out, get the vote out, pay your share for the noise you make, and then you can talk down to everyone else around here.