That's F***ing Beautiful!

[Miroslav Visic]

Welcome to the Union Soviet of America! (Don't confuse it with USSR which
was really a secular state).

Ivo Skoric wrote:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/24/nyregion/24BRUC.html?th
>
> Arrest the living, pardon the dead! What the story of comedian Lenny
> Bruce really reveals is that a man could be arrested solely for his
> speech in the land of the constitutional first amendement protecting
> that free speech as late as 1964. At that time the US vigorously
> protested similar arrests in the Soviet Bloc. It was shameful that he
> was arrested, and it is shameful that he did not win the pardon while
> alive. Interestingly, he could not get work following his jail time
> and his life ended miserably in two years after that - just as lives
> of many Eastern European dissidents did, once they were declared
> outlaws. Now, a Republican Governer pardons Lenny with a lifetime
> delay, only to shore up his first amendement credentials in face of
> his shameful support to the Patriot Act which denies the first
> amendement rights to the living.
>
> ivo