Camp Holloway Discussion Forum Archive 02 - 05/07/01 to 02/28/03

"Duct Tape?" Tape this, I say.

Tom Ridge is an asshole. His boss is too.

Ridge represents the entire obsolete generation of effete American politicians of the past 30 years, both sides of the aisle, who assume that the great unwashed American public is one step removed from cattle. It's all "for our own good" and they know better what is good for us than we do. They detest me and they detest you, as evils necessary simply to get elected. Their contempt for us is palpable.

The effete "they" even have the arrogance to tell us that the duct tape they want to sell us really will not do much, but if we buy it and keep a roll or two around the house, around our miserable hovels, it will make us feel more secure. (And therefore keep us from breaking down the barricades, storming their parapets, and having their balls for breakfast.)

I really can't blame them. We have shown them by our mindless votes over the past 30 or 40 years that a hairdo is far more effective at vote-getting than a cogent argument, or gawd forbid, hard facts.

Bush Senior and his brain trust actually thought that DAN QUAYLE would be a campaign asset, for crissakes. That tells you more about their opinion of US than their opinion of Dan Quayle. I guess we showed him. We elected (or let "them" elect) Clinton and whoever the hell his VP was.

Now we are sitting back, like the cattle they think we are, and we are allowing Tom Ridge and his ilk to X-ray our shoes before we can get on an effing AIRPLANE to PEORIA, for gawd's sake. They frisk the 50-year-old white guys wearing the blue blazers and penny-loafers, but whatever you do, don't question the swarthy-looking guy with the YEMEN SCHOOL FOR TERROR teeshirt on, THAT'S PROFILING.

This is America. Barely recognizable, but still America. My America. We Americans have a right to go where we please. We are protected from "unreasonable search and seizure?" Read the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. It says, they say, we are. We are not. Not today.

That bastard Bin Laden already has won, and one of his tools is an asshole named Tom Ridge. It's too late. The bastard has won. And we allowed the politicians to help him beat us; in Round One.

We cannot allow this to go to Round 2. If it does, they will certainly win again; it's their field, their ball, and their rules. We need to take our country back from the goddam politicians and the goddam lawyers while there is still a slim chance of getting it done.

I did not volunteer to go to Vietnam to come home and see these dirtbags steal my liberty and steal my country. Not without a fight, I didn't.

The enemy is not the bunch of sand monkeys they tell us is our enemy. Our enemy, the enemy who will take our country away from us if we let them, is a bunch of smartass, weasel lawyers and slimy politicians in Washington DC. They want to open our mail; they want to eavesdrop on our telephone conversations; they want access to anything and everything we consider private. In the name of "National Security" of course. For our own protection.

You got a problem with that? Please step over here, sir. Please raise your arms and remove your shoes. Please loosen your trousers and BEND OVER.

We need to stop them. Now. Or our children will have a much harder, maybe impossible time of stopping them later.

America today: Random road stops? "Show me your papers."? "Where are you going?" "What is your purpose in going there?" "Raise your arms." "Remove your shoes." "Open your wallet please." "Do I have your permission to search your car?"

I'm not making this up. Some asshole "security specialist" in Cincinnati actually went through my goddam wallet. Just before he frisked and wanded the 75-year-old woman that he yanked out of line behind me. "Check whatever you want, officer. Happy to cooperate with the law. Just make sure all of your fingers stay in plain sight." "You have a problem with this, sir?" "No-o-o-o sir, I do not. Happy to cooperate, officer."

There is more freedom in France, pals. Ain't that a hoot? France.

We've got trouble. Big trouble. And it ain't on the other side of the world. It's right here. It is us.

Bob

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