No Right Turn: "Land of the free"

Thursday, October 05, 2006

"Land of the free"

How bad is it in the US? Now, you can't even tell the Vice-President that his policies are reprehensible without being arrested by the Secret Service. So much for the "land of the free"...

[Hat tip: Talk Left]

7 comments:

Indeed. There are multitudes of reasons to be critical of this terrble administration and the current state of affairs in America without having to try and blame the lunacy of madmen like Kim Jong-Il on the US...

Posted by Anonymous : 10/05/2006 02:09:00 AM

Didn't the "beacon of freedom" go out a week or so ago? Aren't you done flogging that dead metaphor? Or is is still good copy?

Posted by Anonymous : 10/05/2006 09:24:00 AM

Yes.

Posted by Anonymous : 10/05/2006 03:39:00 PM

Not really seeing the problem in this case.... Cheney was clearly a dick, the DA wouldn't have a bar of it, and now there's going to a be lawsuit that sounds like it'll have a reasonable chance of succeeding that should punish or at least humiliate Cheney for being a dick in this slightly sinister, illiberal and anti-democratic way. That's the system working folks....nothing to see here, move along. (The Military Commissions Act on the other hand is something the US is going to have to spend the next 20 years trying to recover from..... much of i/s's railing against US on this site is quite misguided in my view, but she's right about that one.)

Posted by Anonymous : 10/05/2006 07:16:00 PM

Or this guy puts the point plainly enough. Will time prove him right? Possibly not in quite the way he imagines...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/callahan/callahan160.html

We’ve now gotten to the point where Nazi Germany was, say, in 1934. Remember, at that time, if you had told a typical German what his government would do over the next ten years, he would have looked at you as a madman. After all, his land had been civilized for over a thousand years. His was the nation of Albertus Magnus, Gutenberg, Goethe, Schiller, Beethoven, Bach, Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Fichte, Heisenberg, Reimann, Mann, Lessing, Herder, Handel, Dürer, Leibniz, Gauss, Helmholtz – he could have gone on, but you get the point. His nation could not possibly descend into barbarism! If you tried to tell him he was living in a police state, he would have pointed out that his government had used its vast new powers very judiciously, and only against a few trouble-makers. So far.

Posted by Anonymous : 10/05/2006 09:59:00 PM