Dear Editor:I've been following "The Hill Blog", seen the way it is used by various elected officials, as well as special interest groups to pander their brand of propaganda to our elected officials...this would be fine, except your paper BLOCKS citizen comments on these blog posts, which runs contrary to the interactive nature of blogging and bloggers. As a result, a new The Hill blog has been started as a citizens protest against your publication that embraces stifling of free speech and open, honest dialogue. Worst, "The Hill" embraces giving certain special interest groups preferential access to our elected officials under the guise of granting them the label of policy makers. Perfect example of this was the AFL-CIO diatribe recently posted. Though I happen to agree with most of the political positions of the Minutemen, do not think they are any more a policy maker than the rest of us are, or should be. It is a government run FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE,which makes each of us a policy maker.
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