Posts Tagged ‘freedom’
“I don’t want to get groped and fondled, but I don’t want to get blown up either.” Well said, and a statement we can all probably agree upon (unless you are very lonely and/or depressed). This was part of a discussion about new TSA policies which dictate that if you choose not to go through [...]
This is a public service announcement. Sorry to utilize the bullys pulpit and I promise not to do it too often. Please feel free to comment, forward or disparage me for the article below. I welcome your feedback and thoughts. But most of all, please believe me when I say that the following is sincere [...]
A reader emailed me today to let me know that I am taking the election too seriously. … Maybe it’s time to stop chanting USA USA USA and circumvent the chaos, bringing this country back to the glory it once had and that its people deserve.
This should not happen in the United States of America. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/10/07/ap5521464.html A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and provided to The Associated Press.
…Fleet Forces Command, which runs the military brigs in Norfolk, Va., and Charleston, S.C., detail daily decisions made about the treatment of Hamdi and Jose Padilla, then both American citizens, and Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a legal resident.
A Fox news reporter gets shouted down, live on television, by people organized outside the DNC convention in Denver. As they march, hold signs, shout ‘fuck fox news’ he asks them the question ‘do you not believe in freedom of speech’ – because if you wont talk to FNC, you must be a dirty, fist bumping terrorist, right?
