I thank you for alerting us to this. As you know, under the repressive Bush/Cheney dictatorship the news is censored here and this kind of evidence of the Police State we live under doesn't get out. And even if it did, most Americans would be too stupid to realize that this news article is significant and represents and an archtypal example of the kind of repression that is ubiquitous in our society.
If I can sneak out after curfew and avoid the helicopters and police dogs I hope to be able to make to the Canadian consulate to seek asylum in a more enlightened society where this kind of atrocity could never take place.
Pray for me ...
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080209/ap_on_fe_st/odd_lousy_lawn
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
