Bush Administration has destroyed critisism
San Francisco Radio Station KGO has announced the former and long time talk show host Bernie Ward has, on advice of his attorney, agreed to plea guilty to the charges filed against him on December 7 by the Bush Justice Department.
Ward, a long time passionate critic of the Bush Administration, was taken off the air right after the indictment was filed and was subsequently fired by KGO. He has been under house arrest wearing an ankle bracelet for the last six months.
The original charges were filed against Ward in 2004. He now faces a mandatory five years in federal prison for each count of the indictment.
The effect of this federal victory is that significant criticism of the federal government has been quashed, our rage over being screwed by high gas prices has been silenced, and any voice of protest has been muted. The conservatives and republicans have won with their complete domination of the media.
And this is supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave?