The greatest sedition is silence - William Rivers Pitt

This book is the work of one of America's most outspoken new journalists. William Rivers Pitt's caustic critique of the American government between 1998 and 2002 gives voice to the growing tide of dissent and outrage with America's leaders both inside the country and in the wider world.Pitt argues that, under George W. Bush, America makes a mockery of the values of liberty and truth that it purports to stand for, and that it is now more important than ever to speak out. Starting with the 1998 Clinton impeachment, Pitt suggests that the crisis was engineered by a group of Christian conservatives in order to bring down the Clinton government. He argues that these same individuals went on to engineer a perversion of the American electoral process, resulting in the illegitimate installation of George W. Bush into the presidency by five like-minded conservative Justices of the Supreme Court.In the aftermath of September 11th, America has in many senses lost its way. Citizens are counselled to "watch what they say" by the White House, just as questions of deadly import are ignored by the government and the media. In their rush to defend "liberty", George Bush and his allies are actuall