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Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
Dec. 19th, 2007 01:11 amThere’s a book that I am strongly urging everyone I know to read: the End of America by Naomi Wolf. (Excerpts provided by the Huffington Post.) At the risk of sounding melodramatic, I’ve been saying for some time that the steps that the Bush Administration has taken to smother the Constitution, disregard the Geneva Convention, and trample on the basic rights afforded to US citizens has, gradually, moved us closer and closer to the advent of a fascist state.
Well, Naomi Wolf presents the same argument… but much more eloquently and much more thoroughly than I am capable of.
To me, this book is important because we, as American citizens, have become lazy and complacent. We take too many of our liberties for granted; so much so that we’re oblivious when they’re seized from us. After 9/11, in our fear, we allowed the Bush Administration to piss on the very foundation of this country. We allow our civil liberties to be violated, we allow our phones to be tapped, our email to be read, we set fire to the Great Writ, thereby allowing our own citizens to be unlawfully detained, and we turn a blind eye to torture. Oh God, what have we become?
We, as a country, capitulated to fear, and in doing so, compromised the very essence of what makes this country great. It disgusts me.
But a constitution of government, once changed from freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
So, read the book. If it moves you, pass it on.
- - -
I ain’t done talking yet.
Chris Dodd rocks.
The Military Commissions Act. Warrantless wiretapping. Shredding of Habeas Corpus. Torture. Extraordinary Rendition. Secret Prisons.
No more.
I have decided to place a "hold" on the latest FISA bill that would have included amnesty for telecommunications companies that enabled the President's assault on the Constitution by illegally providing personal information on their customers without judicial authorization.
I said that I would do everything I could to stop this bill from passing, and I have.
It's about delivering results -- and as I've said before, the FIRST thing I will do after being sworn into office is restore the Constitution. But we shouldn't have to wait until then to prevent the further erosion of our country's most treasured document. That's why I am stopping this bill today.
And indeed he did. At least for the moment.
Chris Dodd is fucking awesome. The man has found himself a pair of brass balls, and my respect for him has risen tenfold.
It is about fucking time someone stood up in defense of the US Constitution.
- - -
But wait! – there’s more!
Mike Huckabee’s new Christmas ad makes me sick. When Ted saw it, he pointed out the clever lighting that made the bookshelf behind the prick into a white glowing cross. Subtle.
Evidently, we’re not the only ones sickened.
And a few more reasons why it is insane to vote for this religious nut:
Huckabee is a fool.
Huckabee is a bigot, a religious nut, and a fool.
- - -
I don’t want my children to grow up in Bush’s vision of America, and I don’t want some damned idiot like Huckabee, Romney, or Guiliani to be on the receiving end of his torch.
Well, Naomi Wolf presents the same argument… but much more eloquently and much more thoroughly than I am capable of.
To me, this book is important because we, as American citizens, have become lazy and complacent. We take too many of our liberties for granted; so much so that we’re oblivious when they’re seized from us. After 9/11, in our fear, we allowed the Bush Administration to piss on the very foundation of this country. We allow our civil liberties to be violated, we allow our phones to be tapped, our email to be read, we set fire to the Great Writ, thereby allowing our own citizens to be unlawfully detained, and we turn a blind eye to torture. Oh God, what have we become?
We, as a country, capitulated to fear, and in doing so, compromised the very essence of what makes this country great. It disgusts me.
But a constitution of government, once changed from freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
So, read the book. If it moves you, pass it on.
- - -
I ain’t done talking yet.
Chris Dodd rocks.
The Military Commissions Act. Warrantless wiretapping. Shredding of Habeas Corpus. Torture. Extraordinary Rendition. Secret Prisons.
No more.
I have decided to place a "hold" on the latest FISA bill that would have included amnesty for telecommunications companies that enabled the President's assault on the Constitution by illegally providing personal information on their customers without judicial authorization.
I said that I would do everything I could to stop this bill from passing, and I have.
It's about delivering results -- and as I've said before, the FIRST thing I will do after being sworn into office is restore the Constitution. But we shouldn't have to wait until then to prevent the further erosion of our country's most treasured document. That's why I am stopping this bill today.
And indeed he did. At least for the moment.
Chris Dodd is fucking awesome. The man has found himself a pair of brass balls, and my respect for him has risen tenfold.
It is about fucking time someone stood up in defense of the US Constitution.
- - -
But wait! – there’s more!
Mike Huckabee’s new Christmas ad makes me sick. When Ted saw it, he pointed out the clever lighting that made the bookshelf behind the prick into a white glowing cross. Subtle.
Evidently, we’re not the only ones sickened.
And a few more reasons why it is insane to vote for this religious nut:
Huckabee is a fool.
Huckabee is a bigot, a religious nut, and a fool.
- - -
I don’t want my children to grow up in Bush’s vision of America, and I don’t want some damned idiot like Huckabee, Romney, or Guiliani to be on the receiving end of his torch.
