MERRY CHRISTMAS!  While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” maryland state statute enforcement officers fatally shoot U.s. Army Sergeant James Dean, of the Individual Ready Reserve, at the front door of his childhood home.  Dean was drunk, carrying a 20-gauge shotgun, had no hostages, was despondent over his redeployment to Iraq in three weeks, and had been evaluated by the Department of Veterans Affairs two years previous as having “a hard time sleeping, feels nauseous in the a.m., and loses his temper a lot, ‘really bad,’ “and ‘‘cries for no reason.’’  In response to Dean’s shotgun the SEOs brought an armored vehicle.

       [restored 6/2/2004]