Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid
Uh oh, fellow citizens - I think the War on Terror may have eliminated the buffer zone between Conservative and BatShitCrazy:
When given worse alternatives, there are advantages to military rule -- soldiers do not much care for micromanaging everyday civilian concerns. But also the disadvantage that no one much likes being ruled by soldiers.
Here's what my good friend, Kierkegaard, had to say about Mr. Warren's "analysis" of military rule (No, not THAT Kierkegaard - the OTHER Kierkegaard):
Hmmm. Now, before I read that blog entry, I might have included "disappearances" and "mass executions" on the list of pros and cons for military dictatorships. But I suppose that instituting a state of fear through the constant threat of violence does give citizens a certain amount of surplus autonomy that the liberal nanny state would never afford them.
Personally, I'm starting to tire of the terrifying spectre of Islamofascism taking over the world. It seems to be turning us into really truly awful people totally undeserving of our own democracies:
SumGuyTellsUsToSayGoodbyeToPrivacy
A top intelligence official says it is time people in the United States changed their definition of privacy. Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people's private communications and financial information.Kerr's comments come as Congress is taking a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act.
Okay, three comments from Sooey:
1) Privacy never meant anonymity anyway, so clearly we're being set up here in the introduction;
2) Government and businesses do not go together in a democracy - only government and citizens go together in a democracy;
3) How come I'd never heard of Donald Kerr until Congress apparently decided to take a second look at the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act?
That is all on this Remembrance Day 2007.
Oh, one more thing - did you know there's a campaign on to save the Legion? Well, there is. Apparently, as WWII vets slowly but surely shuffle off this mortal coil, the Legion's future looks less bright. So there's a campaign afoot to save it.
Ah, but why and for whom, you ask.
Ours is not to reason why, Dear Reader.
