kittens
12-03-2007, 01:22 PM
This is a commentary on how "it" happened right under the noses of most of "The American People." Please feel free to copy it, send it, blog it, add to it, etc.
On November 25, 2002 while you were watching the New Orleans vs. Philadelphia game, the Department of homeland security was created upon the passage of The Homeland Security Act.
On September 29th, 2006 when you were hanging out at the water cooler talking to your colleagues about the Baltimore Orioles vs. New York Yankees game played yesterday, Habeas Corpus had it's funeral at the hands of the Military Commissions Act.
On October 17, 2006 The New Orleans Hornets were playing Miami while "President" Bush was signing into law the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 which allows the President to declare a “public emergency” and station troops anywhere in America. Further, the President may use these forces when HE determines that domestic violence has occurred to maintain public order, “in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination thereof or conspiracy to commit these acts against the United States. This means that if you exercise your constitutional right to protest, let's say - the war; in public, the military may treat you as a potential terrorist.
It was sad news to hear that October 26, 2001, Leon Searcy of the Baltimore Ravens was placed on injured reserve with a ruptured triceps tendon. People hardly noticed the passage of the Patriot Act.
Did you happen to catch the final statistics from the Chicago White Sox vs. Cleveland Indians game played on July 17, 2007? Maybe because the International Emergency Economic Powers Act allowed the government to seize your assets because you have an anti-Iraq war sticker on your car and therefore, couldn't pay your cable bill.
When you wake up tomorrow in a police state and wonder how it got that way, feel comforted in the fact that your fantasy football team is kicking butt.
I forgot to mention what inspired me to write this. Bill H.R. 1955 just passed in the House of Representatives. If you are unfamiliar with it, it turns the gov into the thought police as it pertains to the internet. Details are online of course. But who cares? What happened in sports?
Irony: By exercising my "freedom of speech," I have violated so many of the above provisions? I am a thought criminal.
Written by a friend of mine. I guess that makes me a thought criminal too.
On November 25, 2002 while you were watching the New Orleans vs. Philadelphia game, the Department of homeland security was created upon the passage of The Homeland Security Act.
On September 29th, 2006 when you were hanging out at the water cooler talking to your colleagues about the Baltimore Orioles vs. New York Yankees game played yesterday, Habeas Corpus had it's funeral at the hands of the Military Commissions Act.
On October 17, 2006 The New Orleans Hornets were playing Miami while "President" Bush was signing into law the John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007 which allows the President to declare a “public emergency” and station troops anywhere in America. Further, the President may use these forces when HE determines that domestic violence has occurred to maintain public order, “in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination thereof or conspiracy to commit these acts against the United States. This means that if you exercise your constitutional right to protest, let's say - the war; in public, the military may treat you as a potential terrorist.
It was sad news to hear that October 26, 2001, Leon Searcy of the Baltimore Ravens was placed on injured reserve with a ruptured triceps tendon. People hardly noticed the passage of the Patriot Act.
Did you happen to catch the final statistics from the Chicago White Sox vs. Cleveland Indians game played on July 17, 2007? Maybe because the International Emergency Economic Powers Act allowed the government to seize your assets because you have an anti-Iraq war sticker on your car and therefore, couldn't pay your cable bill.
When you wake up tomorrow in a police state and wonder how it got that way, feel comforted in the fact that your fantasy football team is kicking butt.
I forgot to mention what inspired me to write this. Bill H.R. 1955 just passed in the House of Representatives. If you are unfamiliar with it, it turns the gov into the thought police as it pertains to the internet. Details are online of course. But who cares? What happened in sports?
Irony: By exercising my "freedom of speech," I have violated so many of the above provisions? I am a thought criminal.
Written by a friend of mine. I guess that makes me a thought criminal too.