Political Games - Where the fuck’s the reset button?

Why can’t people ever learn? I am absolutely convinced that 30 years from now we’ll be looking back on the days that people had to fight their government for the right to be married. 30 years from now it will be like looking back at the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s. We’ll look back and think… goddamn we were foolish… why did we think we were better than them? Why did we think we deserved anything more? Let’s not make ourselves look foolish anymore. Let’s treat everyone equally, and with love, respect, and understanding… not just tolerence. Let’s go beyond tolerence to total acceptance.

“Prejudices are what fools use for reason.” ~ Voltaire

~Justin

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I am so sick of hearing that the New York Times is comprimising national security. Hogwash! People point the the classified nature of the programs that were exposed. However it seems that no one on the right has considered the possiblity that those programs were classified because of their questionably legal status. You can’t just slap a national security argument onto this and expect me to believe you. I have not heard one person explain to me how the programs that were revealled in the NYT comprimise national security. I really want to know. All I’ve heard is: “It’s national security, we’re at war.” Give me a real answer. One that you used some small part of your brain to figure out… not just the same tired old rhetoric you regurgitate from FOX News.

And if the White House didn’t want judicial oversight in the first place when they were tapping our phones, they really don’t want an ACLU lawsuit challenging the government’s domestic wiretapping program to go to court. The US Justice Department asked federal judges to throw out the case citing that it would risk national security. Now… what’s more likely? The lawsuit would endanger national security? Or the lawsuit would make the White House look even worse and they really don’t need any bad PR. The Bush Administration invoked the “state-secrets privilege.” That means they don’t want it to go to court because it would comprimise national security. Let’s hope the judges are a little smarter than that. This is absolutely ridiculous. It’s amazing how soon we forget about the Pentagon Papers.

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” ~ Voltaire

~Justin

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