Archive for the ‘Fire!’ Category
It was a pleasure to burn.
US government does something scary, counter-productive and down-right creepy. World shocked.
First we have the US claiming in a UK court to have the right to kidnap citizens wanted for crimes in the US. As it turns out, if they can get them home and call ‘base!’ it’s totally legit. If this is how the Bush administration sees fit to treat one of it’s closest allies, how can they possible expect to win a war for hearts and minds where people hate them? To be fair, this must be confusing the hell out of them “Those brits are mad when we create a vastly uneven extradition process and then refuse to sign our end into law, right ok, but they’re also mad when we ignore the whole thing? WHAT IS IT YOU PEOPLE WANT??”
Also, it turns out they’ve been using fire-fighters (who as it turns out have the right to enter property without a warrant) to watch out for people “who is hostile, uncooperative or expressing hate or discontent with the United States” and “to identify material or behavior that may indicate terrorist activities”. Wow, DISCONTENT! That’s like a kind of treason! Now, some may see this as an obvious corruption of the fire-fighters role (and impressively violating both the first and fourth amendments) but I choose to see it as a gift to bloggers. We’re all tired of being reduced to overused Orwell references, but we can’t help ourselves because they always seem startlingly relevant. Thankfully, with fire-fighters going around looking for suspect books, we can turn out attentions to the more obscure Fahrenheit 451 for our blogging inspiration! Thank you America!
*A-hem*
“If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.”
There, not a hint of newspeak or Big Brother in sight! Don’t we all feel so much better?
