The First Amendment’s Downward Spiral
I fear for my civil liberties! For my Freedom of speech! Even for my life! I posted a blog comment in which I quoted a song by Brian Eno from an early solo LP…the line is actually the song title, a phrase about airlines… I’m afraid to repeat it! I posted it as a comment on someone’s blog page, and it was there for a couple of minutes. I went on reading some of the other posts, and then when I returned to the top of the page my comment was gone! Vanished! And it seems that it was not the blog’s author who had deleted it! Big brother is watching, listening, reading and even editing us! For posting a line from a song I could be in Gitmo tomorrow! I might as well let it all hang out now.
The Patriot act is like a Stazi wet dream. The “War On Terror” is license to imperialism. You can’t claim a methodology as your enemy! You can’t fight a war against an ideology! Yet we are engaged in exactly that, and expected to believe it is good and just, or else! I don’t support the methods or ideology of the “terrorists”, but let’s call a spade a spade…we are at war against fundamentalist Islamic extremists who are pissed as hell that we have forced our ideologies on them, right or wrong, and invaded their countries in the name of “freedom”, when in fact the motivations have more to do with economy than liberty! Now we are forfeiting our own freedoms in the name of security because our illustrious leaders want to line their good ol’ boy pockets through the military-corporate machine before all the oil runs dry. Go ahead, Mr. Transit Officer, search my bag…I have nothing to hide, not even my hate for the fascist regime we have become.
Here is the song title I quoted: “Burning Airlines Give You So Much More” There. I said it. It seemed apropos to the blog where I posted it. I’m a New Yorker and I refuse to live in fear. And by the way, whomsoever may be secretly watching, listening, reading: your hearts and minds are already as dead as all the dinosaurs who’s decayed flesh your masters so lustfully desire.
The Patriot act is like a Stazi wet dream. The “War On Terror” is license to imperialism. You can’t claim a methodology as your enemy! You can’t fight a war against an ideology! Yet we are engaged in exactly that, and expected to believe it is good and just, or else! I don’t support the methods or ideology of the “terrorists”, but let’s call a spade a spade…we are at war against fundamentalist Islamic extremists who are pissed as hell that we have forced our ideologies on them, right or wrong, and invaded their countries in the name of “freedom”, when in fact the motivations have more to do with economy than liberty! Now we are forfeiting our own freedoms in the name of security because our illustrious leaders want to line their good ol’ boy pockets through the military-corporate machine before all the oil runs dry. Go ahead, Mr. Transit Officer, search my bag…I have nothing to hide, not even my hate for the fascist regime we have become.
Here is the song title I quoted: “Burning Airlines Give You So Much More” There. I said it. It seemed apropos to the blog where I posted it. I’m a New Yorker and I refuse to live in fear. And by the way, whomsoever may be secretly watching, listening, reading: your hearts and minds are already as dead as all the dinosaurs who’s decayed flesh your masters so lustfully desire.
posted by Umour Ritual Specialists at 11:11 AM
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