Letters To America - The End Of The Line
Originally written: 31/12/06
This is it, folks. This is where it all comes tumbling down. Usually, when I rant and rave about the death of America, I do that for a lot of reasons. One is because I'm paranoid as fuck but another is because, like the man said, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Well, three stories hit me pretty hard today. The legalising of torture, you all know about by now. Then I hear that the SCOTUS is going to "revisit" (i.e. reverse) Doe V. Bolton ( link ), then I hear the House has approved the "Iran Freedom Support Act" ( link NOW UNAVAILABLE ). Yeah, sounds harmless but you might as well call it the "Pretext For Invading Iran" Act 'cos that's what it is. It's the neocons victory party, man. Legalise torture, invade half the Middle-East, outlaw abortion. Hey George, what shall we do next? I know, let's build internment camps for liberals! Ooops, I mean "terrorists".
Nothing left now. Wasn't so bad all that long ago. Seven years ago, your biggest problem was where the president kept his cigars. Today, torture. Damn, let's just move 1984 out of the fiction section 'cos Orwell was a frigging prophet. All the party wants is power, power for it's own sake and they never have enough power. And there are still people supporting this administration! For whoever's sake, guys, LOOK AT YOURSELVES!. Your Constitution has been shredded like so much rodent bedding and your monster of a president is legalising torture and no, I'm not going to fuck around arguing about whether it's torture or abuse or whether 9/11 makes it ok or whether Bush has the power to order it because I really couldn't give a fuck. He's legalising torture, ergo, he's a monster. I couldn't give a shit what kind of pretty language you call it or how many different euphemisms you can come up with, it's still torture.
You no longer have the right to freedom from fucking anything, your country no longer has the right to the moral high ground on anything ever because this is worse than 9/11. That was a bunch of murderous savages committing an atrocity, this is the fucking government of the most powerful nation on earth, coldly and rationally, legalising torture. They're savages, you weren't supposed to be.
Tommorrow, I might have enough passion to rant and rave about this monstrocity of an administration again. Right now, it's just too fucking depressing.
This is it, folks. This is where it all comes tumbling down. Usually, when I rant and rave about the death of America, I do that for a lot of reasons. One is because I'm paranoid as fuck but another is because, like the man said, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.
Well, three stories hit me pretty hard today. The legalising of torture, you all know about by now. Then I hear that the SCOTUS is going to "revisit" (i.e. reverse) Doe V. Bolton ( link ), then I hear the House has approved the "Iran Freedom Support Act" ( link NOW UNAVAILABLE ). Yeah, sounds harmless but you might as well call it the "Pretext For Invading Iran" Act 'cos that's what it is. It's the neocons victory party, man. Legalise torture, invade half the Middle-East, outlaw abortion. Hey George, what shall we do next? I know, let's build internment camps for liberals! Ooops, I mean "terrorists".
Nothing left now. Wasn't so bad all that long ago. Seven years ago, your biggest problem was where the president kept his cigars. Today, torture. Damn, let's just move 1984 out of the fiction section 'cos Orwell was a frigging prophet. All the party wants is power, power for it's own sake and they never have enough power. And there are still people supporting this administration! For whoever's sake, guys, LOOK AT YOURSELVES!. Your Constitution has been shredded like so much rodent bedding and your monster of a president is legalising torture and no, I'm not going to fuck around arguing about whether it's torture or abuse or whether 9/11 makes it ok or whether Bush has the power to order it because I really couldn't give a fuck. He's legalising torture, ergo, he's a monster. I couldn't give a shit what kind of pretty language you call it or how many different euphemisms you can come up with, it's still torture.
You no longer have the right to freedom from fucking anything, your country no longer has the right to the moral high ground on anything ever because this is worse than 9/11. That was a bunch of murderous savages committing an atrocity, this is the fucking government of the most powerful nation on earth, coldly and rationally, legalising torture. They're savages, you weren't supposed to be.
Tommorrow, I might have enough passion to rant and rave about this monstrocity of an administration again. Right now, it's just too fucking depressing.
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