Dear Reader;

Close Guantanamo! Does anyone think they couldn't be picked up by police by mistake? Does anyone think that eroding civil rights and justice doesn't make it more possible for anyone to be mistreated? Does anyone think it is ok to mistreat someone as long as it isn't themselves?

Good grief, the UK Attorney General has called for the closing of Guantanamo, and us American Citizens have not stormed this dreadful Bastille? We have not even come close to storming it with our voices, our letters to Congress, our letters to the editor. We are busy watching American Idol!

I am first amongst those who have remained silent. So, Auriel, what will you? How about AT LEAST some emails to congress and the newspaper!

Next time, I will return with literary fare and donkey news. Vera is saddened by her frozen pen, and Gerald wonders why she just doesn't simply write a short paragraph and send it off! Vera!