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Still dancing around the subjects
Sep. 12th, 2004 05:10 pm3 years ago today, our President should have stood up and said: "Those who committed these terrible acts chose us for a reason: Our Bill of Rights.
"We are proud to be a beacon of hope for all those who want to know that they can't be arrested without a warrant, tried without a jury, or told that they must worship the same way that the government does. We are proud to attract the hatred of those who think that some people have no rights or fewer rights or different rights, because equality of rights under law is all that any government can truly guarantee."
Instead we ended up with speeches that tried to unite us in hatred not hope. Rather than saying that the terrorists were able to plan the attacks because we don't live in a country where people run to the secret police when they hear something odd, we formed a Homeland Security department that keeps us afraid and wants us to report odd occurrences to the police.
This troubles me.
On a completely unrelated note is it just me or do guys with big, fat cigars look like they're fellating them? I thought these were supposed to be macho guys?
"We are proud to be a beacon of hope for all those who want to know that they can't be arrested without a warrant, tried without a jury, or told that they must worship the same way that the government does. We are proud to attract the hatred of those who think that some people have no rights or fewer rights or different rights, because equality of rights under law is all that any government can truly guarantee."
Instead we ended up with speeches that tried to unite us in hatred not hope. Rather than saying that the terrorists were able to plan the attacks because we don't live in a country where people run to the secret police when they hear something odd, we formed a Homeland Security department that keeps us afraid and wants us to report odd occurrences to the police.
This troubles me.
On a completely unrelated note is it just me or do guys with big, fat cigars look like they're fellating them? I thought these were supposed to be macho guys?
