Kiss Our Freedoms Goodbye

Elaine Meinel Supkis

I opened the refrigerator today, pissed off at our stupid rulers who have shorn us of all our liberties and rights only to see that milk carton. No longer worried about missing children, it is all about the terrorists who are super-scary. This is why the world hates us. We are super-scardicats. We don't have even the bravery to punish those clowns running America on 9/11 that let us down totally.

And the failure to punish Bush and his gang continues to reverberate as this CRIMINAL retaliates by destroying our joint civil rights!

By ANNE PLUMMER FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 28, 7:49 PM ET

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday endorsed President Bush's plans to prosecute and interrogate terror suspects, all but sealing congressional approval for legislation that Republicans intend to use on the campaign trail to assert their toughness on terrorism.

The 65-34 vote means the bill could reach the president's desk by week's end. The House passed nearly identical legislation on Wednesday and was expected to approve the Senate bill on Friday, sending it on to the White House.

The bill would create military commissions to prosecute terrorism suspects. It also would prohibit some of the worst abuses of detainees like mutilation and rape, but grant the president leeway to decide which other interrogation techniques are permissible.

Everything Hitler did in Germany was 100% legal according to German law! This is why we have international treaties! Many dictatorships think they don't have to pay attention to international laws but they do, eventually.

The Saudi royals that don't excape their kingdom when it falls will be treated like they treat their own prisoners. In South America, former dictators are feeling the heat as many people demand they be brought to justice. In Argentina, for example, a man who was going to testify about the crimes of the CIA-installed junta there in the seventies has gone missing as the military overlords try to stop justice.

In Iraq, Saddam's farcial trial is collapsing just as I predicted from day one. The previous judge suddenly started talking sweet nothings because he knew which way the wind was blowing and he was summarily replaced and the tougher judge just lost not one but two close family members as assassins hunt his clan down.

The USA wasn't supposed to be like Iran or Argentina, we were supposed to be the beacon of Liberty, the New World, the shining City on the Hill, not the Shining. Instead, we are more and more like that stupid movie: trapped on a snow-bound mountain with a lunatic madman who is screaming about terrorists as he chases us around the kitchen, slashing with butcher knives.

Twelve Democrats sided with 53 Republicans in voting for the bill. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., in a tough re-election fight, joined 32 Democrats and the chamber's lone independent in opposing the bill. Sen. Olympia Snowe (news, bio, voting record), R-Maine, was absent.

The entire Republican party destroyed our Constitution and a horrifying list of Democrats including some from the 'liberal' Northeast like both Senators of New Jersey? Yo. Talk about crazed. Watch out if you stop at a Jersey Turnpike toll booth if you smell cannoli!

You would think this great land was crawling with terrorists. Like the War on Drugs, this latest fake war will be a way of increasing the size of the purses of the well-connected and well-heeled. But like the War on Drugs, all pretense of protecting children, ect. will be thrown out the window as military gangs smash through houses and strip little girls naked and kill old ladies who scream and in general, terrorize whole communities.

And all the while, the drugs pour in since people connected with the government can't resist doing some blatant drug smuggling on the side. Just another way of making even more money.

None of these laws being passed will make us 'safer' since safety comes from having a sane government and a sane society. And we are far from this. Many Americans dream of re-instating slavery. This is why unions are being killed very rapidly. We have been told, all workers of the world are our proxy-slaves so we can buy cheap stuff and now this is ending with us being told we are now the cheap slaves, no need for proxies anymore.

This is why Bush and his ilk were so anxious to pass these UNCONSTITUTIONAL laws and our Opus Dei Supreme Court will probably try to OK this rending of the curtain that seperates us from tyranny. This is a form of rapine. These monsters piously claim they won't rape us, just apply unpleasant pressures. Well, we saw what that meant in Iraq! We are all Iraqis and in the end, this means, we are all terrorists if the state chooses to start ravaging our communities.

The steady loss of liberty, privacy and freedomm will continue so long as we lust for imperial powers. Imperial Russia didn't grant freedoms! Nor did Imperial Germany or Imperial England, for that matter! Only when England was on the ropes in WWI did the government finally begin to grant the simple liberty of allowing people to vote!

Which reminds us of the 2000 Supreme Court ruling ending the pretense of voting.

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Comments

[Liberal AND Proud]

The MSM isn't even talking about this. The blogs are on fire...but it's the country that is burning.

If a neocon tears the Constitution up in the woods, but no one pays attention, does it make a sound?

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

The sound of screams from Gitmo.

[D. F. Facti]

Dear God. I don't buy milk. I'll have to check this out out here in the "heartland". That is truly unbelievable. Hey, wait a minute. Can we buy some space on a few milk cartons? "Have you seen this document? Age: 217."

Your female Senator gave a rollicking good speech before the Torture Party voted to piss on our Constitution.

'Reading about Elizabethan England recently. And we thought that was all behind us. Ha ha ha. What will W look like in ermine and silk? His daughters are rather Shakespearean, in a doltish way. Goneril and Regan - or is that Reagan?

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

More like Grendel the mother dragon in Beowulf.

[larry]

Is that the view from your porch? Wow!

[Rodney Reid]

Hi Elaine,

The world is getting scary these past couple years; this summer in particular. I have a bet with myself that we won't be having elections this November.

Something is going to happen within the next week.

Military people are posting all sorts of stuff on the blogs about how they're leaving for Iran October 1st.

One went so far as to say that one week after the release of another 'terror video' which he said would come before sept 30th, we would have attacks in the US, and then start an attack on Iran.

ALso, what is up with the stock market and gas prices? Everyone in their right mind knows both are contrary to the general mood in the country.

I have noticed that in the past 2 days gas prices rose a bit.

...Rodney

PS: Your porch looks wonderful; reminds me of home. Used to live in Milwaukee for my first 30 years before moving to the SF bay area CA (ground zero).

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

I live on a mountain. I built this house with my own hands. The view is breathtaking. I need to see the whole world when I write.

And winter is amazing here. Just amazing. Ferocious and glorious at the same time.