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Today, the daily pamphlet interviewed Sue Hilderbrand, the director of the Peace and Justice Center. You will remember them as the group that sponsored the lightly-attended Cindy Sheehan visit. Hilderbrand felt it necessary to say, "We are not the lunatic fringe. We are organized."

There is no relationship between those two sentences. First, if she is as committed as she claims, the misconception doesn't require her defense, and, second, many lunatics (KKK) and fringe groups are organized. I acknowledge her group is legitimate. She promptly apologized for one of her members who suggested a global warming researcher should risk suicide to test their theory. She seems to be a classy lady.

Their latest project was to confront people in City Plaza (the cement tribute to ugliness), hand them a cell phone, and ask them to tell our Representative to vote to cut off spending for the war. I wasn't there, and I don't know how many people they recruited, but when I phoned from home to express my support for the President, my call went right through. This is still the North State.