Americans are outraged when a New York Times reporter is detained in Zimbabwe for "reporting," but many of us just shrug when the US detains journalists for doing their job, and sometimes for not even doing it, but being suspected of doing it.

One of the foundations of the now disrespected and overthrown, at least de facto, Constitution of the United States, was freedom of the press. The founders had lived under the tyranny and oppression of the British who did to them what their descendants are now doing to others. They knew that a democracy and a free people needed to be informed.

I will not apologize for my own outrage. Partly it comes from not knowing what to do as I watch the Bush regime dismantle the liberties that I hold dear.

Thanks to the editors of the WIP for linking this article. You are making vital information available. The collusion of the corporate media with the regime in the US is part of the problem. Many Americans who might be outraged don't even know, though I regret the numbers who should be and do know who are not.