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Today is a very very very very good day. Oh yes.
Continuing on the tone of the below days, I am continually amazed at how crazy some people can become during times such as these. First up is that "The Flag-Burning Page", set up to protect the freedom to burn an American flag as a form of protest, is now discontinued because of death threats and assulting emails. Once again people standing up for what they believe is being considered un-patriotic.
Secondly is a great Salon article on "Democracy held hostage". It talks about some cases in the media where reporters or columnists were fired or repremandid for making any kind of statement that wasn't part of the status-quo. Things like questioning Bush's actions can get one fired. Even a White House spokesman has said "Americans need to watch what they say, watch what they do, and this is not a time for remarks like that; there never is." in reference to Bill Mauer saying that cruise missles were "cowardly". I'm smelling 1984 here...
And finally some very scary poll numbers from CNN. 31% of American's, nearly 1/3, believe that there should be "detention" camps for Arab-Americans. I had hoped that something like that would only be a temporary black mark in American history since we did something similar to Japanese during WWII. That stat truly frightens the crap out of me. 29% favor random searches, something that before would be considered outrageous. Anther scary stat is that 59% of those polled favored holding suspected terrorist "indefinitely with no bail". Now suspected is a very very vague term, and to think that just by thinking someone is a terrorist they can be held in jail for the rest of their lives...it sounds a whole lot like that habeas corpus thing I was talking about below. It's amazing how the things I put down that I feared would happen, could actually happen. And finally, 55% of American's believe that email should be scannable by the government. What a world we live in now.
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