Guns can no longer be employed against an oppresive government. They are expensive and tightly controlled. One tool that you can fight with is a tool that they have more resources for, but anyone can use. Propoganda. Anyone can create and distrubute it; it's cheap, not controlled. Yet.
That said, I'd die in Alabama, as they have the "toughest anti-obscenity act" in the nation. It's really hard to get around, you know? You have to go a long way to get past that law, into a totally different state. I understand that there was alot of thrust around this bill, and most people thought it was a long time in coming.
Okay, so we went from fun, to stupid, now let's look at something delicious. When Ashcroft ran for senate in 2000, he seems to have taken some extra money, and the Fedral Election Committee is calling him on it. It's not that I'm vindictive against people like him, it's just that I want to see them suffer and pay for the generally bad person that they are.
And in the "I'm glad it's coming out into the public" story: Senator Nelson reveals that Bushies staff lied in a secret congressional breifing to push his war for Iraq. According to Nelson, Bushies officials claimed that " Iraq not only had weapons of mass destruction, but that they had the means to deliver them to East Coast cities." Whups... funny how it contradicts the intelligence briefs the senators were recieving at the time. Nothing quite like lying, cheating and stealing to get your way.
bedlammessiah points out key flaws in Israel's behavior with this selection of quotes. The irony is revolting. With statements like that, is it any surprise the Arab world hates Israel? Is it any surprise that Israel has mandatory military service. The government is paranoid because they know everyone is out to get them, but don't think about why.
And to encourage you to read this (despite the overabundance of posts I've been making lately), I'll leave you with a quote:
“Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear: Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.” (Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Oct. 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.)
