DEMOCRATIC DERANGEMENT ENTRY OF THE DAY

America's New Freedoms (Jack Ballinger, July 27, 2003, AlterNet)

New American freedoms include:

The freedom to be detained without charge [...]

The freedom to be tortured [...]

The freedom to be constantly interrogated [...]

The freedom to be left entirely alone [...]

The freedom of information [...]

The freedom to assassinate [...]

The freedom to retaliate against even helpful "volunteers". . . if they're Arabs in America [...]

The freedom to change the rules of justice in America [...]

The freedom to snoop and freedom to arrest pesky librarians [...]

The freedom to remove worker's rights [...]

The freedom to suffer without prescribed medication [...]

The freedom from global treaties [...]

And, finally, freedom from knowledge

Here's all I know: we just got a check for $1200 from the Federal government; if this is fascism, and we get all those freedoms plus cash bonuses, we can learn to live with it. How the hell does the Horst Wessel song go? Posted by Orrin Judd at August 5, 2003 12:24 AM