Oh, I tend to assume I'm on somebody's watchlist. I'm too outspoken and too entirely dismissive not to be.
Particularly as the government comes to resemble more and more those governments who feel that free speech is fine but only when carefully controlled by those who know best. It amazes me - these people want less government - when it comes to actually helping anybody who needs help. But their attitude is so paternalistic, so utterly patronizing - to the point of accusing the New York Times and Washington Post of treason for printing the truth about the government's lies.
Every day I'm more appalled by the grotesque abuses of this current government. I keep waiting for a Lincoln or Roosevelt or Washington to stand up and say, "I'm here and I'm not going to sit down and we're going to take back this country for the people," but I just don't know where the next great leader is going to come from.
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branchandroot
Re: Five Year Anniversary
Date: 2006-09-14 02:17 pm (UTC)Particularly as the government comes to resemble more and more those governments who feel that free speech is fine but only when carefully controlled by those who know best. It amazes me - these people want less government - when it comes to actually helping anybody who needs help. But their attitude is so paternalistic, so utterly patronizing - to the point of accusing the New York Times and Washington Post of treason for printing the truth about the government's lies.
Every day I'm more appalled by the grotesque abuses of this current government. I keep waiting for a Lincoln or Roosevelt or Washington to stand up and say, "I'm here and I'm not going to sit down and we're going to take back this country for the people," but I just don't know where the next great leader is going to come from.