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VA Nurse Investigated for 'Sedition' for Criticizing Bush

A clinical nurse specialist at the VA Medical Center in Albuquerque wrote a letter to the editor of the weekly paper Alibi criticizing the Bush Administration. After the paper published the letter, VA administrators seized her computer, alleged that she had written the letter on that computer and accused her of "sedition."

Here's what her letter said:

"I am furious with the tragically misplaced priorities and criminal negligence of this government," it began. "The Katrina tragedy in the US shows that the emperor has no clothes!" She mentioned that she was "a VA nurse" working with returning vets. "The public has no sense of the additional devastating human and financial costs of post-traumatic stress disorder," she wrote, and she worried about the hundreds of thousands of additional cases that might result from Katrina and the Iraq War..." (Read rest of this article by Matthew Rotschild in The Progressive here)

This is a chilling portent of Bush's America (Amerika?). Here is what the ACLU of New Mexco said about the 'sedition' charge:

Berg, who is not talking to the press, is “scared for her job” and “pretty emotionally distressed,” says Peter Simonson, executive director of the ACLU of New Mexico.

“We were shocked to see the word ‘sedition’ used,” Simonson tells The Progressive. “Sedition? That’s like something out of the history books.” Read more....

posted by Annamarie at 3:02 PM