Not if you want to have a job. Just ask Linda Lorca. The California labor code prohibits employers from controlling or directing the political activities of employees, so when her boss fired her on the spot and called her an Al Qaeda operative for having an Air America bumper sticker on her car, Beverly Fath, manager at Advantage Sales and Marketing, Inc. broke the law. Somewhere, tailgunner Joe is smiling. Somewhere underground, the tyrants we’ve been telling everyone our government was superior to are smiling.
But of course 9/11 changed everything. It changed us from a government of laws to a government of men; angry, stupid, fearful and unprincipled men – and women. So when the ape in the White house or one of his no-neck thugs tells us about our “wonderful freedoms” give him Dick Cheney’s advice.
You bet I’m angry. I’m fully aware that we have had two centuries of this kind of thing in war and peace. We’ve had a nation of passionate savages barely restrained by law, but somehow we’ve maintained, on the average, some level of reason and principle and justice. That doesn’t mean we need to stand for this kind of bullying, spying popular fascism. I know I won’t. Bogus war or no war, they’ll take my freedom when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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3 comments:
absolut-ly!
key word is "fearful."
folk w/o clear line to conscience lose hope, courage, reason, integrity when threatened.
Several writers predicted that when wwe didn't have the Commies to be the bogey man any more, we would fall apart unless we invented another enemy to take their place. The last 16 years have been about creating an enemy.
right. clinton, then bin laden, then saddam, now all of us.
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