My only comment on the SOTU

Nothing much to say about the SOTU. But one thing caught my eye. From C-span's transcript: "We will pass along to our children all the freedoms we enjoy -- and chief among them is freedom from fear."

Our president is peddling pipe dreams.
Freedom from fear does not come from spreading peace through making war.
It does not come from the sniffy-dogs, the lines at the airport, the PATRIOT act, or the department of homeland security.
We gain freedom from fear only when we realize that there is no freedom from fear.
Today the world appears poised to become a more, not less, dangerous place. Can our president protect us from the effects of global warming? Can he save us from our hurricanes and our earthquakes? Can he avert the avian flu pandemic, even now brewing in Vietnam? Fear? It's all around us. This president makes us sick with it (as if we weren't already sick enough) and then comes along, all innocence, and offers us a Kool-Aid cure. As long as we continue to seek freedom from fear, we will not find it. It lives, with doubt, in the hollow place inside us. Arise, America, and reject the lies of those who would proclaim that hollow space filled up! Let us learn instead to live with it, and then we shall be free of the fascist drive to certainty and wholeness! As some Buddhist monk said to some Buddhist seeker, this glass we drink from is already broken.