Adm. Thad Allen has issued a directive further restricting media access. This comes days after the ACLU of Louisiana wrote a letter urging an end to blocking of the press and censorship of information.

Do you ever get the feeling that you are living in historic times? I don’t mean “historic” in the common sense, in which we record whatever happens as history. I mean “historic” as in, a really, really, really important era; one that will change the way man governs himself forever. A time that will set us free from the lies that the wealthy and powerful few tell us to control us; a control they have exerted for as long as history has been recorded.

How would such a time distinguish itself from all of the rest of history? How would future generations know that when they looked at our history, it was set apart, holy (holy literally means set apart; a religious connotation is not necessary). How would they know that when they read of the events in our time, they were discovering a moment in mankind when the masses shrugged off the chains that bound them, and never again would they allow themselves to be enslaved? What sets us apart? What sets now apart?