Of much greater concern to me:
The PATRIOT Act, the "Domestic Security Enhancement Act" (aka PATRIOT II), the gutting of the First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh clauses of the Bill of Rights.
(I may start referring to the clauses in the Bill of Rights as "clauses," rather than "Amendments." This after I have been hearing more and more yahoos (TM-The Yahoo Corporation, All Rights Reserved) saying "Well, they're just _amendments_, so they can be amended again." For non-U.S. persons here who may not be familiar with our Constitution, the Bill of Rights was demanded by most of the states as a condition of agreeing to the Constitution, and thus the 10 clauses that make up the Bill of Rights have a more important status than, say, the 33rd Amendment, the one about how toothpaste must be dispensed in tubes accessible by the Physically Challenged and Differently Sensed. The Bill of Rights ARE the defining elements of the U.S. Constitution, not some afterthoughts devised by meddling bureaucrats.)
By the way, I am enjoying the evolving clusterfuck/train wreck that is coming with the War on Some Terrorrists. Seeing our C-student fratboy President babbling about "nucular" weapons and talking about "opening a can of Texas whoop-ass on those bad boys!" is entertaining.
Here's an article I sent out about this coming clusterfuck:
From: Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed Mar 12, 2003 7:01:36 PM US/Pacific To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Train Wreck in Iraq is Developing Nicely!
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ross Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Considering how much the right-wing hates the UN passionately, you'd think Bush would be more than happy to let them discredit themselves and implode. His sudden interest in UN credibility is.... interesting, to say the least.
Not even remotely believable, but interesting.
Don't be so naive. Neither Bush nor any of his principal advisors in this matter give a shit about the U.N., except to see it discredited.
(And I am also hoping to see it discredited. It's a democratic body, which is a major strike against it, and it is dominated, in terms of votes and politics, the usual Turd World basic brown types. Once the U.N. falls apart, these savages can go back to raiding and killing each other, filing the stock pots with their defeated foes, and hacking to death women and children.)
I don't support the war, mainly because I take George Washington's advice about avoiding foreign entanglements very seriously. But I have no use for the U.N., a corrupt and democratic body intent on stealing what they can from the white man to give to the brown, black, and yellow man.
Fuck them. Fuck them dead.
Thank you, George Bush, for this monumental clusterfuck! May the war go very, very badly. May tens of thousands of pieces of American cannon fodder be gassed and otherwise killed. This will enhance the clusterfuck and end America's flirtation with "global stewardship."
I'm laughing as each day passes and the train wreck comes closer to happening.
--Tim May
