In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Experiencing patriotic difficulties ...
please stand by.
I was disconnected from this site for the last few days by unseen forces out there in web land. By sheer fortune I managed to wend my way back in.
Troubling when that happens. This page should be called "A Fair and Balanced Look at Paranoid America" -- which is how I've been for four years straight (well, crooked).
Normally (hah) I'm not easily given to paranoia.
paranoia n. [NL, fr. Gk, madness, fr. paranous demented, fr. para- + nous mind] (ca. 1811) 1: a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usu. without hallucinations 2: a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others
paranoid also paranoidal adj. (1904) 1: characterized by or resembling paranoia 2: characterized by suspiciousness, persecutory trends, or megalomania 3: extremely fearful
Two words: Paul Wellstone
One word: Johnashcroft
One is the last liberal politician in America who went down in a small aircraft days before a national election when the Senate was split 50-50; the other is a would-be governor who lost his election to a corpse and is now one of the most powerful men in the world, sitting atop a U.S. Justice Department fully committed and empowered by the president to remove every congressional firewall designed to separate the intelligence-gathering arm of the CIA from the criminal investigatory powers of the FBI, to quashing internal dissent, shredding the Freedom of Information Act, arresting citizens for what they MIGHT do, and getting rid of trial by jury and the writ of habeas corpus, to say nothing of massing police power into the hands of the state and generally conducting himself like Torquemada during the heyday of the Spanish Inquisition, where subjects of a ruthless Christian monarachy were routinely disembowelled, flayed, broken on the wheel until their arms and legs were mash -- screaming bloody puppets -- and braided into the spokes alive, hoisted into the air, and left for the birds to peck out their eyes and eat their mouths, lips and tongues, for no other reason but to prove a point.
Take your pick.
--Oh, you can't, I forgot. Who better to deprive you of your rights and privileges than the unelected, who follows a higher power than the rule of law?
Nobody beats the Spanish Inquisition.
- Michael 3:39 PM - [PermaLink] -
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