who will be our leader?

Do names like Marin Luther King Jr., Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Elizabeth Blackwell, mean anything to you? Lately they have meant more to me then they have ever meant before. Since listening to Tom Fenton, talk about our media, I can’t get the message out of my mind. Just recently I was looking through the Adbuster magazine and I came across an article titled “Let’s Fight for a New Human Right.” The article starts, “Every movement, every age has its own unique human rights battle. Fifty years ago, blacks fought for their civil rights, then women for theirs, then environmentalists for the right to clean air, water, and food. And now in this age of systematically distorted information, we face a new human rights battle- one that we can no longer ignore. This battle is for The Right to Communicate.” This got my brain-a-tickin! First I started thinking back to history. I tried to image what it must have been like when the blacks were fighting for their rights and women theirs. There was a situation that our society needed to be aware of and change. There were great punishments for presenting these ideas. I think of the great leaders, some listed above, that took their strong feelings and did something about them; People who took a chance. These people saw a problem with our society and worked to make a change. Today we have a new problem. We no longer have the right to hear the truth and make a statement. We are being dumbed down! We are being fed a whole load of false crap! Who can we trust now? I think of the leaders from the past and the differences they made! Who is going to lead the U.S. today into getting the truth? I think there is something we all can do, lets make a statement.