Unabashed plug
Oct. 18th, 2006 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaunthieIf you haven't yet read fisherbear's insightful and incensed essay on the death of habeus corpus, do yourself a favor and go do so right now. Money quote:
"9/11 changed nothing. Lesser nations have stood up to more. We have stood up to more, and surrendered less.
9/11 only showed us for what we have become: a nation of cowards, of scared little children, willing to piss away a thousand years of the noblest civil tradition in the tides of this Earth because some turbaned spectre in a hole in Central Asia is out to get us."
I too had considered blogging a LOT about this disgusting disgrace of an act, which Twinkie signed into law yesterday. But just as the rest of the nation was distracted from it by Other Events (the cyberstalking pedophillic senator and the other senators who enabled him), I too had other events occur in my life which overshadowed this blog for a while, and I never got to it. Even if I had, though, I don't know if I could have been any more eloquent.
Maybe I'll still get around to saying a few words, though - but later.
Edited to add: In the meantime, if you want and/or need some insight as to why more people aren't up in arms over this (other than apathy, general ignorance, and stupidity), check out Glenn Greenwald's excellent post about what Fox News viewers are being told about the Military Commissions Act of 2006. And consider adding Glenn to your daily intake of astute political commentary.
"9/11 changed nothing. Lesser nations have stood up to more. We have stood up to more, and surrendered less.
9/11 only showed us for what we have become: a nation of cowards, of scared little children, willing to piss away a thousand years of the noblest civil tradition in the tides of this Earth because some turbaned spectre in a hole in Central Asia is out to get us."
I too had considered blogging a LOT about this disgusting disgrace of an act, which Twinkie signed into law yesterday. But just as the rest of the nation was distracted from it by Other Events (the cyberstalking pedophillic senator and the other senators who enabled him), I too had other events occur in my life which overshadowed this blog for a while, and I never got to it. Even if I had, though, I don't know if I could have been any more eloquent.
Maybe I'll still get around to saying a few words, though - but later.
Edited to add: In the meantime, if you want and/or need some insight as to why more people aren't up in arms over this (other than apathy, general ignorance, and stupidity), check out Glenn Greenwald's excellent post about what Fox News viewers are being told about the Military Commissions Act of 2006. And consider adding Glenn to your daily intake of astute political commentary.
