Our family has seen many changes in the past year which necessitated my pulling a "Houdini act" and withdrawing from the political activist scene.

One of the changes in my life was a move from the city to the countryside to a house overlooking the magnificent Kennebec River in Maine. This great river attracts wonderful birds, including our nation's symbol, the Bald Eagle. They appear frequently, especially when the river freezes, swooping down onto the ice flows which provide a solid base from which they can feed. Would that our nation, whose symbol is the Bald Eagle, had similar solid constitutional support from its government thus enabling Americans to continue to live as free citizens.

The Bald Eagle, still free, is flying with both wings. The United States, no longer free, is flying with but one wing as pilots would say "on a wing and a prayer."

This article explains why our formerly free country is in the 21st Century flying with only one wing.

The most devastating aspect of The Fork's use is that we victims hadn't the foggiest idea we were being victimized, but thought, to the contrary, that the government had our best interests at heart.