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>Remaining <93>alert and defiant<94> as prescribed by doctor Ashcroft
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>I didn<92>t see <91>The Producers<92> and don<92>t care much about them. I think
> if
>borders are open, I<92>d chose New Zealand over the U.S.
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>America stands for freedom...
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>America stands for freedom...
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>doctor Ashcroft
http://www.membank.org/dataset/n/plz_go-home_kouboi.mp2
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>no looking at really, really naughty pictures
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>no smoking in California restaurants
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>no public sex
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>Food and patriotism
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>Remaining <93>alert and defiant<94> as prescribed by doctor Ashcroft I
>drove back from the speeding ticket hearing in Queensbury Town
>Court down the Thruway at 110 mph. Because I was alert, I spotted
>the State Trooper before my radar detector picked up his radar
>signal, so I slowed down to a meager 70 mph making myself
>unworthy of a speeding ticket. And because I was defiant, I sped
>up back to 110 mph as soon as I lost the trooper<92>s car in my
>rearview mirror. On the other hand, I am not sure whether Ashcroft
>exactly had that in mind, when he called on Americans to be <93>alert
>and defiant<94> for this September 11. Fearful and fearless in
>accordance with the rest of the doublespeak we heard preceding
>this sad anniversary.
>
>Alert and defiant, I picked up the following <91>intelligence chatter<92> in
>the U.S. news media:
>
>1) <93>We will use our position of unparalleled strength and influence to
>build an atmosphere of international order and openness in which
>progress and liberty can flourish in many nations. A peaceful world of
>growing freedom serves American long^Wterm interests, reflects enduring
>American ideals and unites America's allies....Today, humanity holds in
>its hands the opportunity to further freedom's triumph over all its age^Wold
>foes. The United States welcomes its responsibility to lead in this great
>mission.<94> (George W. Bush, NY Times, 9/11/02)
><93>The plain fact is that our country has, with all our mistakes and
>blunders, always been and always will be the greatest beacon of
>freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection in history.
>If you need proof, open all the borders on Earth and see what happens.
>In about half a day, the entire world would be a ghost town, and the
>United States would look like one giant line to see `The Producers.' . . .<94>
>(Larry Miller, Jan. 14, 2002, The Weekly Standard)
><93>We Americans are not better than any other people, but the Western
>democratic system we live by is the best system on earth.<94> (Thomas
>Friedman in one of his innumerable odes to the American democracy,
>published by The New York Times)
>
>I didn<92>t see <91>The Producers<92> and don<92>t care much about them. I think
> if
>borders are open, I<92>d chose New Zealand over the U.S. But, more
>importantly, why then this <91>greatest beacon of freedom, charity,
>opportunity, and affection in history<92> houses more prisoners per capita
>than any other country in the world including communist China and all
>those pesky undemocratic un-modern Arab regimes? The Economist
>(08/31/02) calls the U.S. <93>The world<92>s most enthusiastic jailer<94>. Curre
>ntly
>there are 1.96 million people behind bars in the U.S. and 4.66 million
>people on probation or parole - more than a population of a smaller
>European country. Incidentally half of them are not white. Incidentally
>half of them didn<92>t commit a violent crime, much less a terrorist act.
>
>America stands for freedom... There's an old punk rock band called the
>Vandals with a song that goes, "America stands for freedom, but if you
>think you're free, try walking into a deli and urinating on the cheese."
>("Anarchy Burger (Hold the Government)," 1989, Epitaph Records;
>quoted by Vin Diesel in <93>Triple X<94> movie 2002). Well, of course, freedom
>has understandable limitations: no yelling fire in a theater, no stealing
>cable, no jaywalking...um, no talking about overthrowing the
>government, no looking at really, really naughty pictures, no bearing of
>arms in public, no smoking in California restaurants, no serious cussing
>on broadcast television, no public sex, no right to keep your own state
>free of others' nuclear waste, no peyote ritual for Indian prayer services,
>no gay unions in Nevada, no free speech on the sidewalks in front of
>casinos. More freedom, though, than any non^Wdemocracy^W^Wthat's what
>we mean. (Thursday, July 11, 2002, Copyright <A9> Las Vegas Mercury, Gut
>Reactions: Food and patriotism, By Dayvid Figler)
>
>And, it is getting WORSE. As a consequence of the September 11 and
>the subsequent Operation Enduring Freedom the freedom of individuals
>around the globe has been shrunk, restricted, curtailed - it seems that
>even countries that initially rejoiced in the America getting hurt, learned
>how to profit out of that fate. Detentions are prolonged, more arbitrary,
>and their conditions are harsher, discriminatory legislation has been
>passed, there is an international clampdown on foreigners and asylum
>seekers, the rights at trial eroded, death penalty expanded, use of torture
>increased, surveillance powers of police increased, people are extradited
>without rights guarantees, there are new restrictions on freedom of
>assembly and on freedom of expression, and some peaceful activity can
>be defined as terrorism. The U.S. can get citizens of other countries, that
>FBI suspects are connected to terrorism, arrested in third countries and
>extradited to fourth countries where they can be tortured, far from the
>inconvenient eyes of human rights organizations, for the benefit of the
>FBI intelligence gathering. In an example of shameless profiling, FBI is
>bluntly asking people arrested under Patriot Act whether anybody in
>their families is a Muslim, and compares the sound of their names to
>familiar pronunciations of Arabic names.
>
><93>...to curtail individual rights, as the Bush administration has done, is to
>draw exactly the wrong lessons from history. Every time the country has
>felt threatened and tightened the screws on civil liberties, it later wished
>it had not done so. In each case <97> whether the barring of government
>criticism under the Sedition Act of 1798 and the Espionage Act of 1918,
>the internment of Japanese^WAmericans in World War II or the
>McCarthyite witch hunts of the cold war <97> profound regrets set in
>later.<94> (Op-Ed, New York Times, 09/10/02)
>
>The situation of freedom is in the sad state globally and the world is one
>worse place to live after September 11 events. Add to that the fact that all
>the economies of the developed world shrank since the tragedy. And is
>there still a reason to trust the government? Or is there only fear of being
>apprehended? Was Osama Bin Laden right about the 9/11 redistributing
>the world<92>s capital flow, indeed? Arkady Ostrovsky in the 8/6/02 issue of
>Financial Times reports that <93>while the marjets in the developed world
>remain close to their September 11 levels, emerging markets, in spite of
>the turmoil in Latin America, have risen 30% since then.<94>
>
>And what exactly is the turmoil in Latin America all about? It is about
>IMF and corrupted local politicians screwing up yet another country in
>the world. Starting in 1995, in accord with agreements with the IMF,
>Argentina cut the budget for public hospitals, ended its preventive
>health care programs and froze budget for public schools. Today the
>country that according to UN Food and Agriculture Organization
>statistics has the highest per capita production of food cannot feed more
>than a half of its children. One of the world<92>s largest producers of high
>protein red meat and soy cannot provide a gram of protein per kilo of
>weight, the requirement for normal development of child<92>s nervous
>system, to 28% of its children, that are indigent. According to
>Argentina<92>s National Institute on Statistics and Censuses, of 36 million
>people, Argentina has 9.8 million children below age 14, and the
>whooping 58% of them go hungry, despite the country<92>s production of
>70 millions tons of food - nearly 2 tons per person. Why? Because the
>food is exported and the money earned is poured into wealthy Western
>lenders<92> and local corrupted, treacherous, wealthy collaborators<92>
>pockets. It is a simple case of the neo-colonial plunder.
>
><93>Formerly admired almost universally as the pre^W eminent champion of
>human rights, our country has become the foremost target of respected
>international organizations concerned about these basic principles of
>democratic life. We have ignored or condoned abuses in nations that
>support our anti^Wterrorism effort, while detaining American citizens as
>"enemy combatants," incarcerating them secretly and indefinitely
>without their being charged with any crime or having the right to legal
>counsel. This policy has been condemned by the federal courts, but the
>Justice Department seems adamant, and the issue is still in doubt.
>Several hundred captured Taliban soldiers remain imprisoned at
>Guant<E1>namo Bay under the same circumstances, with the defense
>secretary declaring that they would not be released even if they were
>someday tried and found to be innocent. These actions are similar to
>those of abusive regimes that historically have been condemned by
>American presidents.<94>
>(The troubling new face of America, by Jimmy Carter, Washington Post,
>Friday, September 6, 2002; Carter may be a better ex-president than he
>was a president)
>
>The conclusion is that under the cloak of protecting and advancing the
>cause of freedom the U.S. in the recent years sponsored and/or allowed
>the cause of freedom to suffer and fail worldwide. That<92>s what bring us
>to the second chapter.
>
>2) 2-1=4
>Vice-president Dick Cheney said that the U.S. should wage a war against
>Iraq, and Secretary of State Collin Powell said that it should not, yet Ari
>Fleisher, the White House press secretary, said that there are no
>differences between what those two said.
>
><93>[W] ar is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Colin Powell
>and Dick Cheney are artists
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