Journalist Nick Turse has compiled a list of government employees who have been fired or resigned as a result of Bush administration policies. Tomdispatch, which published it, refers to it as a "memorial wall," similar to those springing up around the country to honor the Iraq war dead. Maybe that association is a bit casual, since these people still have their lives, but the list provides a sobering rundown of the scary-bad things that have happened since the Bush Putsch of 2000, on the environmental, national security, and economic fronts. (It may not seem scary to you now but wait a few years.) Tribute should be paid to these people whose careers were wrecked by speaking out, as opposed to what actually happened: as the departures were announced in a steady trickle since the beginning of the Reich, the national media (not heroes) enabled the Bushites by marginalizing or actively sliming these exercisers of conscience.

- tom moody 10-17-2005 6:13 pm




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