We Can Hear You Now...

Friday, February 29, 2008

This is great! Head on over to http://www.billboardliberation.com/ and check this little bit of billboard remodeling. Sounds like Cacophony.

For the past little bit the telecom companies' lobbyists have been fellating the members of congress in an attempt gain retroactive immunity from lawsuits arising from their compliance with the Bush administration's domestic spying program. As it turns out, they must give great head because they got their wish. Doesn't that give you a warm fuzzy feeling all over? I know I get a glow when I see my civil liberties ass-raped. Nothing makes me feel better than to see the rights that our fellow countrymen have fought and died to protect silently fall by the wayside.

Now, maybe you are thinking that since you are not a terrorist, this little piece of legislation doesn't really affect you. You are wrong. Things like this tend to happen in a domino effect and the first one is always the hardest. After that they all come tumbling down with ease. What happens when political protest becomes considered a terrorist act? Never happen you say? Not too long ago I would have said the same thing about the U.S. holding prisoners publicly without charge or trial or the public acceptance of torture as an acceptable means of interrogation.

We seem to have forgotten that Orwell's book 1985 was not a how too manual. While, at the moment, that is a bit of an exaggeration at the moment, it is the direction that we are headed. And all the while we consent by our silence. A fundamental right falls away and all we have to show for it is a billboard.



"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" -Benjamin Franklin





Rant over... For now