pay for that. A curse on the water of those who perpetrated it and those that carried it out. She was right. At the time, her speech inspired me to keep protesting. How easy it is to follow the crowd; how hard it is to stand up for what is right, for what is true. Barbara Lee is a true American hero. Gary, You can write about gun control You can write about war control You can write rational politics USA til you are blue in the face.. Don't you know by now that peace and tranquility is the last thing politicians are concerned with. US politics shoots from the hip. That's where the votes are, in a completely irrational world. I hate saying it but I have never seen it any other way. In a land where comedians are the only ones who try to understand USA,USA, USA It's very cute that she wants to be so charmingly ethical, but she is singing underwater because in the US, government is strictly business. To the USA, foreigners are either vendors or competition, and to ask about Uncle Sam's 'morality' is an implicitly immoral question before it's even considered. The American people are good because they are American, and what they do as a nation is always equally good. In fact they are so good that whenever anyone is accused of threatening them or the interests of their benevolent rulers, the only good thing to do is "go Jericho" on whoever