You’ve got to be kidding me! I find it hard to believe that the ONLY newsworthy event is Travolta’s son dying at 16. Tragic, yes, but is that the only thing going on?
No drama? No gnashing of teeth or rending of clothing? No tales of woe? LJ, you can do better!
Well since no one has anything to say, I’ll post a big ole political post to at least give everyone something to read. No cuts, either, bitches.
A bunch of Muslims got tossed off an AirTran flight and detained for talking about which seats are the safest in a crash. Stupid, yes, but illegal? I think not. The fucking TSA must be reigned in. Those assholes can detain you as long as they wish for any reason they wish. That is WRONG. Oh, and these Muslims were CITIZENS, people, not some random ferrinners.
I get searched about 50% of the time at the airport, which tells me that I’m probably on a watch list for my views on this blog. Well, SUCK IT, TSA!! Go ahead and harass me all you like. I will not stop criticising a fascist department of government with unbridled power to treat citizens any way they wish. It’s wrong and it should be stopped. The fallacy that it “makes us safer” is just plain stupid.
Let’s have some quotes about democracy, shall we? Remind ourselves of a few things:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” – CS Lewis
“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” – George Bernard Shaw
“In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.” – J. William Fulbright
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” – John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.” – Mohandas K. Gandhi
“The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.” – Noam Chomsky
“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.” – Voltaire
Why do we allow the TSA and the Patriot Act to continue? Because Americans have become sheeple, that’s why. I’m certain that the people of Germany told themselves that Hitler’s regime was acceptable because “I’m not doing anything wrong, so what am I worried about?” And the trains, did indeed run on time.
“Lack of dissent provides permission by acquiescence.” – Angela H. Pratt
