Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Strange Weather
Currently the sun is shining brightly and pouring rain threatens to flood the street. Strange weather we've been having up here in Minnesota. Just three weeks ago we got 18 inches of snow in one weekend, yesterday it was 81. Ah, life in the exact center of a continent.
So we've got the Republican National Convention coming to my home town of Saint Paul in about a year. I'm saving up my vacation time already, cuz I'm sure I'll be illegally detained trying to participate in some form of civil disobedience or another. To amuse myself at work lately I've been brainstorming up various signs that I'd like to wave in the face of their delegates.
"No Habeas Corpus? FUCK YOU!!!"
Well, that's really all I've got so far. The whole removal of habeas corpus by our legislature lately has really gotten under my skin. I just keep thinking about it. We've lost, without a whimper from the masses, the most fundamental lynchpin of Western Civilization. Sure, a white guy like me in the midwest can probably still demand some recourse if detained for political reasons - no, maybe not. If the Fuhrer deems you an 'enemy combatant', if the corporate bitch media takes Bush's balls out of their mouth long enough to call you a 'terrorist'; then you are done.
All my life I've had this pride deep in my heart that in America, all are equal under the law. Sure their have been a few special exceptions in our nation's great history: Native Americans, Blacks, Women, Communists, Japanese Americans, 'Guest Workers', gays . . . etc. etc., but for the most part the Constitution be a noble document, and as our society progresses more and more are included under its protections.
We don't have Habeas Corpus anymore! They fucking chucked out Habeas Corpus! We're fucking not free. We don't have a fundamental, fucking rudimentary protection from the Police State.
I've got a neighbor with a bumper sticker that reads, 'The NRA: Freedom's Frontline'. I drive past that rusting truck every day when I run home on my lunchbreak (cuz the fucker's probably unemployed) and it just pisses me off. When's the last time the fucking National Rifle Association ever protected anybodies fucking freedom? Sure, you had the rifle clubs organized by black communities in the 50's and 60's, but that's not really the same fucking thing as the NRA, now is it? Let's be honest here. The NRA's core membership is reactionary fifty-somethings who live in denial that they could never resist an assault by a twenty year old male, and want to pretend that having a gun would give them power and make their dick get hard again. Just a bunch of delusional dumbasses. In their dreamland everybody has a gun, how fucking stupid is that?!? A fifty year old with a gun still can't beat a twenty year old with a gun, you lose on reaction time and sheer youthful impetus. Your fat, fucking sweaty fingers just can't deal with four home invaders with crowbars, let alone .38 specials. The utopia of the NRA don't make any fucking sense.
Freedom's fucking frontline is the ACLU. When those candyass lawyers spring into action to protect a member of some minority or gay community; it's like that famous poem about coming for people during the Nazi regime - first they came for the blah, blah, blah, but I said nothing cuz I was a WASP, blah, blah, blah.. As long as the ACLU is racing to Jose Padilla's defense, I don't have to burden my beautiful mind (Barbara Bush's phrase) with cruel imaginings of being fucking tortured cuz I have the cajones to disagree with someone in power.
It sounds inhumane, but how many honest Liberals can deny that they supported the Civil Rights movement for those very reasons. Not trying to be offensive here, just evaluating a hard truth. If the blacks get equal rights, that just adds one more buffer between me and the gas chambers. If you can't deny employment to someone because of the color of their skin, that just makes it harder to fire me cuz I won't pretend there is a man with a beard in space who loves me. Hopefully, all the minorities who finally get to enjoy the protection of our constitution become eager and stalwart defenders of it. One more line of defense.
The rain has stopped. The setting sun has filled my room with groovy colors, a nuthatch is singing in the blue spruce outside the window. Good as place as any to disengage.
So we've got the Republican National Convention coming to my home town of Saint Paul in about a year. I'm saving up my vacation time already, cuz I'm sure I'll be illegally detained trying to participate in some form of civil disobedience or another. To amuse myself at work lately I've been brainstorming up various signs that I'd like to wave in the face of their delegates.
"No Habeas Corpus? FUCK YOU!!!"
Well, that's really all I've got so far. The whole removal of habeas corpus by our legislature lately has really gotten under my skin. I just keep thinking about it. We've lost, without a whimper from the masses, the most fundamental lynchpin of Western Civilization. Sure, a white guy like me in the midwest can probably still demand some recourse if detained for political reasons - no, maybe not. If the Fuhrer deems you an 'enemy combatant', if the corporate bitch media takes Bush's balls out of their mouth long enough to call you a 'terrorist'; then you are done.
All my life I've had this pride deep in my heart that in America, all are equal under the law. Sure their have been a few special exceptions in our nation's great history: Native Americans, Blacks, Women, Communists, Japanese Americans, 'Guest Workers', gays . . . etc. etc., but for the most part the Constitution be a noble document, and as our society progresses more and more are included under its protections.
We don't have Habeas Corpus anymore! They fucking chucked out Habeas Corpus! We're fucking not free. We don't have a fundamental, fucking rudimentary protection from the Police State.
I've got a neighbor with a bumper sticker that reads, 'The NRA: Freedom's Frontline'. I drive past that rusting truck every day when I run home on my lunchbreak (cuz the fucker's probably unemployed) and it just pisses me off. When's the last time the fucking National Rifle Association ever protected anybodies fucking freedom? Sure, you had the rifle clubs organized by black communities in the 50's and 60's, but that's not really the same fucking thing as the NRA, now is it? Let's be honest here. The NRA's core membership is reactionary fifty-somethings who live in denial that they could never resist an assault by a twenty year old male, and want to pretend that having a gun would give them power and make their dick get hard again. Just a bunch of delusional dumbasses. In their dreamland everybody has a gun, how fucking stupid is that?!? A fifty year old with a gun still can't beat a twenty year old with a gun, you lose on reaction time and sheer youthful impetus. Your fat, fucking sweaty fingers just can't deal with four home invaders with crowbars, let alone .38 specials. The utopia of the NRA don't make any fucking sense.
Freedom's fucking frontline is the ACLU. When those candyass lawyers spring into action to protect a member of some minority or gay community; it's like that famous poem about coming for people during the Nazi regime - first they came for the blah, blah, blah, but I said nothing cuz I was a WASP, blah, blah, blah.. As long as the ACLU is racing to Jose Padilla's defense, I don't have to burden my beautiful mind (Barbara Bush's phrase) with cruel imaginings of being fucking tortured cuz I have the cajones to disagree with someone in power.
It sounds inhumane, but how many honest Liberals can deny that they supported the Civil Rights movement for those very reasons. Not trying to be offensive here, just evaluating a hard truth. If the blacks get equal rights, that just adds one more buffer between me and the gas chambers. If you can't deny employment to someone because of the color of their skin, that just makes it harder to fire me cuz I won't pretend there is a man with a beard in space who loves me. Hopefully, all the minorities who finally get to enjoy the protection of our constitution become eager and stalwart defenders of it. One more line of defense.
The rain has stopped. The setting sun has filled my room with groovy colors, a nuthatch is singing in the blue spruce outside the window. Good as place as any to disengage.
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