The Cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. W.E. Dubois, American Social
Reformer and Political Activist (1868-1963)
The day the war officially started on Iraq, thousands of people gathered at the Texas Capitol to protest the U.S. involvement in the war. That morning, as a government employee working at the Courthouse, I was notified via email of the impending protest. The email urged supervisors to let "non-essential personnel" leave early so that they could avoid the turmoil that the protest was sure to cause on traffic. …
