Peasant #1: We have found a terrorist, may we torture him?
Angry Mob: TORTURE HIM TOOORTURE HIM!!
Sir Gonzales: How do you know he is a terrorist?
Peasant #1: He looks like one!
Sir Gonzales: Bring him forward.
“Terrorist”: I’m not a terrorist, I’m not a terrorist!
Sir Gonzales: But you are dressed as one.
“Terrorist”: They dressed me up like this.
Peasant [...]
Digby has written a post which many in the country would view as alarmist and irrational. Yet, his assertions are predominantly correct. The passage of the detainee act, last night, has set our country down a road to authoritarian rule. As many philosophers throughout history have noted, power breeds corruption. Whether or not the current [...]
In 1788, Alexander Hamilton, in defending the Constitution, wrote:
The observations of the judicious Blackstone in reference to the latter, are well worthy of recital: “To bereave a man of life, [says he] or by violence to confiscate his estate, without accusation or trial, would be so gross and notorious an act of despotism, as must [...]
One of the under reported stories of the week concerns the latest major security flaw in the Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine. The folks over at Freedom to Tinker have discovered that the cover lock (which controls access to the memory slot) on the AccuVote-TS is the same as that used on mini-bars, filing cabinets, and [...]
I love stuff like this. Fox blowhard, Bill O’Reilly apparently told Barbra Walters that the FBI had warned him that he had been targeted by Al Qaeda. Well, why wouldn’t they target you Bill? After all you’re the T-Warrior who stands between real America and the terrorist loving left. Why, if it weren’t for [...]
According to LiveScience, intrepid inventor, Seth Weiner has designed and built a robotic chair which allows fish to have mobility on land. It won’t be long before we hear about terrorist trout attacking us from below – to quote Churchill: “We will fight them on the beaches”
I had just written the previous post, when I received an e-mail revealing that Ted (tubes) Stevens is protecting telecom profits at the expense of troop moral:
The Stevens bill not only proposes to scuttle network neutrality rules but also undermines key policies designed to insure community influence over how broadband networks serve the public interest–including [...]
