The cancer you speak of, as most of us who care know, is not only infecting our ferret interests, but our general lives as well. Depending on your point of view, (eyes closed by the entrapments of capitalistic pursuits and the breeder/jones' disease or well aware and smelling the stench of Chinese tollatarianism on American soil) the government from the town pee-ons on up has taken a nosedive in the ethics established by the old dead white dudes that founded it. The bottom line is immoral politics driven by greed for power, money, and control. The Constitution was so pissed on for the last 8 years by the last Presidential administration and it's effects trickled down (tell me Regan wasn't right about that theory) to just about every level of government. Folks got fat and lazy, bought gas guzzling SUVs, believed the lies that all was well and good and that government would take care of all their problems. What they didn't see coming was the sell-out of many of their freedoms and the opening of a door that allowed the lawyers, special interests, and politicians to basically rape them and undermine the very basis of the Constitution, WE THE PEOPLE. The media feeding lies till they became common truths in the minds of the moronicans didn't help matters either. The whole NYC situation was brought to light by, (and I remember this very clearly) an illegal immigrants kid being "attacked" by their own pet ferret and the story was run over and over and over on CNN, which filtered down to every other station till it was imbedded in the minds of everyone as a bad thing. Then Rudy-Poo makes it an issue, which is more news for the masses to distract themselves with. This power play by government goons against the people it is elected to serve is propagated by the media that is their tool for brainwashing the stupid. And it's not getting any better. It was written a long time ago about what is happening to our country now. Although the author isn't to well respected and some of his views not well received, you can read almost blow by blow the disease that is infecting this country as we live and breath. I will not name this person or his book because I don't need the flack from those that think they know better just because they have been fed lies most of their lives. Those of you with open minds know how to reach me. Suffice to say, this country is in deep do if real Americans don't stand up and start giving those that forget who they work for a wake up call, and not let the media or these politicians make it a big circus that they can turn into a joke. "If we don't take action now, we'll settle for nothing later." - Rage Against the Machine Have a nice day, Stan [Posted in FML issue 3428]