Start all over again

For those of you who never make it over to my politics blog in Detroit, I'm cross posting this because these events still impact the War on Some Drugs in ways that aren't immediately apparent.

Avedon Carol from The Sidestep has sent me to yet another fabulous blog I hadn't read before and instantly liked. MyDD has the news on Chavez in Venezuela and his win in the referendum. DD posted the early news that the opposition's allegations of voter fraud had not been answered. Later reports from Jimmy Carter and the OAS observers have now declared Chavez the bonafide winner.

DD also checks out a couple of NY Times articles, one on Florida stormtroopers "interviewing" elderly black American voters starting with 73 year old Ezzie Thomas, who happens to be president of the Orlando League of Voters. These tactics are reportedly creating an atmospshere of fear and intimidation among the Get out the Vote movement.

And the FBI is still knocking on young people's doors asking them about their travel plans and any intentions to exercise their First Amendment rights. Sometimes I feel like we're fighting the sixties all over again.

As Avedon so aptly put it, "For those of us who've been here before, it's pretty scary stuff."