Friday, January 28, 2005

Confirming the witchfinder-general

Alberto Gonzales thinks this is okay.

Proud of your nation? Proud of the way it treats its "enemies"? The Tipton Three committed the crime of being in Afghanistan and were tortured for it.

Proud of your government? It is government by you, for you. We forget that. We alienate ourselves from it by pretending that they are them and we are just us. But you put them in power; you allow it to go on without any complaint.

This is why when advocates of the enforced vote in Australia tell me that I cannot complain because I don't vote, I say, you are fucking imbeciles. Voting makes you part of this. (And yes, it's doubtless true that regardless who you vote for, you are plumping for an arsehole: Kerry, Bush, Hills Clinton, whoever.)

This is partly why they want to kill us. They think we are hypocrites. They think our "freedom" is freedom to enslave one another. They think our "freedom" is not much more than licence, and they are not wrong.

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