Fortunately, many politicians in the United States of America are fully aware of the dangers associated with freedom and want to put a stop to the risks associated with the Constitution. After all, as Benjamin Franklin wrote, "people willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose gain both." Actually, it doesn't really matter, because those in power always know best.
|
Fortunately, we have politicians and organizations FIGHTING for a cultural Utopia:
A few current heroic fighters:
The US Supreme Court FIGHTS against individual property rights:
From the state always knows best dept.
The court said government agencies can constitutionally take property in the name of economic development -- and even transfer it to another private party. "Any property may now be taken for the benefit of another private party, but the fallout from this decision will not be random," 'activist' Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said in dissent. "The beneficiaries are likely to be those citizens with disproportionate influence and power in the political process, including large corporations and development firms." You may now look forward to a new hotel or golf course in your hometown. Or wherever you shouldn't have been living.
US House of Representatives FIGHTS against (partially free) speech:
From the Senator Rick Santorum makes mistakes too dept.
By a 286-130 vote, the US House approved a constitutional amendment that would give Congress the power to ban desecration of the American flag, a measure that for the first time stands a chance of passing the Senate as well. One America-hating dirty hippie said something about that the very essence the American flag represented was that it could be burned in the name of freedom, and still stand strong for centuries. But of course he was just another blasphemous Ted Kennedy follower. PA Senator Rick Santorum, who initially said he would vote against any measures that would make the burning illegal, announced he quickly changed his stance on the issue when he discovered that he'd misunderstood that the amendment would be for banning the burning of the American flag, not American homosexuals.
The US Supreme Court FIGHTS against states' rights:
From the screw those chronically ill dept.
In an awesome 'flock of birds with a single stone' blow to states' rights, chronically ill, dangerous free thinkers, and damned hippies everywhere, by a vote of 6 to 3, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress's constitutional authority to regulate the interstate market in drugs, licit or illicit, extends to small, homegrown quantities of doctor-recommended marijuana consumed under California's Compassionate Use Act, which was adopted by an overwhelming majority of voters in 1996. President George W. Bush called conservative Supreme Court Judge Rehnquist, who voted against the medical ban, an activist judge who should be ousted. As arrests followed, some patients expressed lack of concern as they ingested their pot stashes and obtained legal prescriptions to morphine and heroine derivatives.
House leader Tom Delay FIGHTS for okaying political hypocrisy:
From the I just blew, but didn't suck dept.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes, according to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a cigar is an economic prop to a brutal totalitarian regime. Arguing against loosening sanctions against Cuba last year, DeLay warned that Fidel Castro "will take the money. Every dime that finds its way into Cuba first finds its way into Fidel Castro's blood-thirsty hands.... American consumers will get their fine cigars and their cheap sugar, but at the cost of our national honor." Tom Delay insists that he was thinking his fine Cuban cigar was Rick Santorum's pe an organic flute-like instrument, and he only blew it but didn't inhale.
Kansas FIGHTS For Reason:
From the George W. Bush told us so dept.
The Kansas State School Board approved by six votes to four a new curriculum that eliminates the teaching of evolution. Charlie Pierce, who has taught biology at Hutchinson High School for 18 years, said before the vote: "We're going back to the 1880s. It does make us look to the people in the rest of the country that we're a bunch of hicks." "No it don't," the school board wrote. "The board got its information from the legitimate website, darwinismrefuted.com."
PA Senator Rick Santorum FIGHTS For America:
From the Santorum holding back his own passions dept.
Santorum: The definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be. It is one thing. And when you destroy that you have a dramatic impact on the quality --
Associated Press: I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out.
Santorum: And that's sort of where we are in today's world, unfortunately. The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire.
AP: What?
Santorum: I like sheep.
The Catholic Church CLEARS UP that condoms, in fact, do spread HIV:
From the Vatican likes to correct scientific misinformation dept.
The Catholic Church is informing people in countries stricken by AIDS not to use condoms because they have tiny holes in them through which HIV can pass - potentially exposing thousands of people to risk. The church is making the claims across four continents despite a widespread scientific consensus that condoms are impermeable to HIV. A senior Vatican spokesman backs the claims about permeable condoms, despite assurances by the World Health Organisation that they are untrue. "LOLLLOOLZ," says an anonymous Catholic. "Soon you fools will also realize Jesus planted the dinosaur bones as a test of your faith."
|
We MUST end the republic America was founded on. And a democracy is dangerous. Fascism is the only way. After all, "If this were a dictatorship, [dictating] would be a heck of a lot easier," says President George W. Bush.
Adolf Hitler knew that having a society in which everyone could be considered a criminal misinformed individual would be exceptionally 'convenient'.
|
