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If It Wasn’t So Outrageous It Would Be Funny Part II

Man, there is just no other way to put it… John Cornyn may be the most dimwitted man in the Senate:

“None of your civil liberties matter much after you’re dead,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a former judge and close ally of the president who sits on the Judiciary Committee.

Get that? There is no longer a place for liberty in these here United States (formerly known as the “Sweet Land of Liberty”). Cornyn’s moment of actual anti-American idiocy was in response to the Senate stalemate over the renewal of the “patriot” act.

Thankfully Russ Feingold was there for the perfect retort:

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.), who has led a bipartisan filibuster against a reauthorization of the Patriot Act, quoted Patrick Henry, an icon of the American Revolution, in response: “Give me liberty or give me death.”

He called Cornyn’s comments “a retreat from who we are and who we should be.”

I am very wary of running another senator in 2008, but Feingold’s stock sure has been rising lately here in get donkey! land.

December 20th, 2005 Posted by Rob | General comments | 2 comments

If It Wasn’t So Outrageous It Would Be Funny

Here is how our federal government is “protecting” us from shadowy networks of freedom haters:

One F.B.I. document indicates that agents in Indianapolis planned to conduct surveillance as part of a “Vegan Community Project.” Another document talks of the Catholic Workers group’s “semi-communistic ideology.” A third indicates the bureau’s interest in determining the location of a protest over llama fur planned by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Llama Fur– it’s the new yellow cake.

December 20th, 2005 Posted by Rob | Politics | 2 comments