I'm sure if we hook up a few live wires to her genitals (post-hooding, of course), she'll quickly come to realize that the government is just protecting her freedom.

And in the spirit of recycling, we can waterboard her using the same water she uses to sponge-bathe amputees.

Always best, when a Gummint employee, to sign your letter stating you are writing this as a private citizen.

That'll make it easier for the ACLU to defend you after BushCo decides you are a terrist.

D

So why is she being charged with sedition and not the rest of us? We have called for the same things she has.

I think that if this woman goes to jail, for even one freaking day for telling the truth, because I bet you she knows more truth than any of us, we should all go to D.C and turn ourselves in for sedition. I am talking about enmasse.

This is BULLSHIT!!!!!!

The statistics are right. Bush supporters are uneducated dolts that are easily fooled.

Yes, I agree, tens of thousands of Americans are calling for the same things she is. I guess we are all guilty of sedition. But then so are Bush,Cheney,Rove,Gonzales,Ashcroft,Rumsfeld and Rice.

Ooops, I'm sorry, my mistake, they are guilty of treason and high crimes in office. Not the same as sedition, not as bad for them to cause the death and maiming of thousands of American troops for the Bush/Republican wars in Afghanistan and Iraq because they(Bush,Cheney,Rice) are fighting terrorism which was/is actually caused by bin Laden and Saudi Arabia(Bush's good friends) not Iraqis' or Afghanis'. Since dubya consorts with the enemy, the Saudi government, is he giving aid and comfort to the enemy. Sounds like treason to me, just like grandfather Prescott S. Bush assisted the nazis in managing there money. The Bush family seems to have a history of giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

Hmmm, makes me wonder what our troops are dying for in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now to get serious for a minute, I think Bush is going after this woman as an intimidation tactic so the rest of us dissenters and protestors will quiver in our beds, under the covers, in the dark of day.

This woman will probably end up at Gitmo. Maybe the rest of us will,also. I wonder if Bush can fit tens of thousands of Americans in Gitmo for opposing him and calling for the impeachment of both He and Cheney. Both of them are chickenhawks or as the Texans say, "all hat, no cattle".

When I was a kid in the 50's and 60's I was told that the reason the Soviet Union was so bad was because of what it meant to be a Soviet Citizen.
It meant living in a country that spied on it's citizens, a country that would arrest it's citizens if they didn't like what was being said.

Imagine driving to work when you're pulled over and arrested, taken to a secret prison where you are tortured into confessing to whatever they want.
How did that happen here?

It appears that MS Berg's use of the word "forcefully"
with regard to action against the current administration, is the reason that her letter to the editor has been label as seditious by her superiors/employers.

Omit "forcefully" and they "got nuthin" to hang you with.

"Freedom", a word that's getting more bizarre in meaning day by day, along with honesty, courage, public, expression etc. I'm glad to see so many people spring to the VA nurse's defense saying they are calling for the exact same thing. What's going on in the US of A?

Five hundred years from now,will historians point to the 2000 election and say, "Here is where the American republic slipped complacently into dictatorship."?

pre-war germany and present day usa.... the parallels are chilling and scary

Wise authority allows both 'voice' and 'exit'. Members of a society must be allowed to dissent, that is to give voice to complaints for example, as well as to emigrate and withdraw, that is be able to exit away from conflict or abuse. Otherwise, authority wastes itself chasing fantasies toward a self-forefilling prophesy of revolt.

In this instance, the VA is unwise. Its hierarchy is wasting resources striving for some unreasonable idealogical uniformity. The resulting flawed dynamic is exceedingly common in the USA.

Back to the old good times of the Gestapo, or even better the KGB? Not that the U.S. had a clean historical record in this regard either: There's a long history of the government's using the FBI to supress "dangerous" people. These days the U.S. is definitely not a very healthy place to be in.

I read all the comments. If the RN is quilty of sedition, so are the majority of Americans. If my remarks are offensive, they are also honest and truthful of the present administration, and if that makes Dubya feel more macho and powerful, they might as well come and get me.

this is a sad day for america, when 'free speech' is suppressed, and truth is declared 'sedition.'

wake up ... o people of america ... where are you?

your nation needs you ... now!

sincerely,
al mofi al kamudi

Again and again I'm trying to decide for myself what is right. And now I'm pretty sure that there can't be one true way. On the one hand I understand that this country is number one in the world for now. And if it wants to secure the position it must act in this or that way no matter if we like it or not. On the other hand I'm not sure at all if i would like to live in the number one country if the cost is so high!