Monday, February 7

Anybody not smell the swastikas yet?

Thanks to Shevchyk yet again for the following, which I'm reposting for those of you too lazy to read the comments.

http://www.amconmag.com/2005_02_14/article.html

You have to read this essay. It's the GODDAMN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE, for Christ's sake.

It just goes to show that I've been tell the fucking truth all along: that this is not a liberal issue.

Shit, I'm not a liberal. I'm an American.

Every goddamn public school and courthouse that wants to enshrine the Ten Commandments should erect, instead, stone tablets engraved with a vastly more important document: the Bill of Rights.

The Declaration of Independence is a more important statement of human aspiration than the Sermon on the Mount.

And the Bushitters are killing them. Both.

Funny thing is, this is a running theme of my fiction, too. It's that blind god thing. The hunger for easy answers. "They're EEeevil and Must Be Destroyed!" The need to belong. The willingness to be lied to, as long as we like the lies . . .

The simple need to be told what to think.

Try the following on for size, the true story of three innocent British citizens imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, without trial or legal recourse of any kind, for nearly two years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/07/opinion/7herbert.html

Wake up and smell the swastikas, indeed.


9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Look on the bright side, we could all wake up dead tomorrow and never have to worry about this shit ever again.


Some links to this "brighter side" of the Blind God, and it's war to suck every last drop of SUV juice out from under the middle east:
http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/war40.html
http://whitehouse.org/

Shevchyk said...

Metafilter is your friend.

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/36201
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/39336

Enjoy.

Shevchyk said...

I came across this on the BBC today:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4243807.stm

The $2.58 trillion (£1.38 trillion) budget includes reduction in subsidies to farmers, and lower spending on the environment, education, and health.

The budget document projects the deficit will rise to $427bn this year, before starting to decline.

Military spending will, however, rise 4.8% to $419.3bn in 2006.

The budget does not include the cost of running military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, for which the administration is expected to seek an extra $80bn from Congress later this year.

So he's basically just cut teachers' paychecks, decided that Americans are far too smart, and health, environment and farmers in the mid-west don't matter.

Uh. ...Congratulations?

Shevchyk said...

To the best of my knowledge, the Sumerian writer (and Sumerian Akkadian high priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur) Enheduanna is considered to be the oldest known writer - from around 2300 B.C.

Unknown said...

Thanks for that link, Matt.

Shevchyk said...

Well this is depraved...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4247805.stm

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Shevchyk said...

Apologies for the triple post. Am blaming it on blogger.