Things are getting scary these days. I am seriously worried about where this country is going. One positive is that I think more and more Americans are catching on to what is happening.

Now if we could just get the mainstream press to cover certain things with more urgency then we will be better off. Today former Vice President Al Gore gave a speech that should be given attention.

Gore calls for special counsel on eavesdropping

"Former Vice President Al Gore called on Monday for an independent counsel to investigate whether President George W. Bush broke the law in authorizing domestic eavesdropping without court approval."

I agree we need a completely independent investigation, this is just too important to risk even an appearance of partisanship.

"'A special counsel should be immediately appointed by the attorney general to remedy the obvious conflict of interest that prevents him from investigating what many believe are serious violations of law by the president,' Gore said in a speech to the American Constitution Society and the Liberty Coalition.

Gore, the Democrat defeated by Bush in the 2000 presidential election, said the eavesdropping operation threatened the foundation of U.S. democracy, and he recalled the FBI's secret surveillance of Martin Luther King, on the U.S. holiday commemorating the civil rights leader."

Tell them reverend! Seriously this disturbing. And anyone who looks at this and shrugs it off and makes excuses for this president's actions needs to look at themselves and think about where their priorities really lie. In politics, in party loyalty, or in the survival of the finest country in the world.

The time is now folks, we all must fight for the good of this country. Fight for our liberties, for our rights, for our privacy. We can no longer afford to sit on the sidelines. Wake Up!

"'We still have much to learn about the NSA's domestic surveillance. What we do know about this pervasive wiretapping virtually compels the conclusion that the president of the United States has been breaking the law repeatedly and insistently,' Gore said.

'A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government,' he said."

Indeed!