You Have the Right to Remain Silent....

The Repugnican brownshirts are gearing up intensely in advance of their conventions. They apparently anticipate trouble from American citizens on a scale warranting the use of the same weapons allegedly being deployed on terrorists in Iraq.

Now, color me naive, but if a government's acting in the interests of its citizenry, why on Earth would it need to turn weapons on its constituents employers?!?

There's also the nagging question about those thousands of acres of prisons they're building in the US....

Oh, wait a minute - no worries; Halliburton's on top of that one - at least if you believe such a fringe publication as BusinessWire. And guess what? Your personal interests are hardly at heart.

No wonder Bush is planning to go into hiding after his blessed retirement.

Sigh... plus ca change...


Lyrics of the Day
"The hills find peace
Locked armed guard posts
Safe from the screams
Of the children born as ghosts

Gates, guns and alarms
Shape the calm of the dawn
Peering down into the basin
Where death lives on

Where young run foaming at the mouth with hate
Where burning batons beat the freezing who shake
Under the toxic sunsets they dine and toast
Their walls deny the terror faced

By the children born as ghosts
Born as ghosts
A warning, you sufferers, begin to speak our words
Born as ghosts
A warning, you sufferers, begin to speak our words
Born as ghosts
A warning, you sufferers, begin to speak our words
Born as ghosts
Were the children born as ghosts

Born as ghosts

One book and forty odd
Stuffed in a room
Ah, the school as a tomb
Where home is a wasteland
Taste the razor wire

And thought is locked in the womb
The tales that tear at the myth of the dream
(myth of the dream, myth of the dream)
A suffering that shocks the lives off the screen
(myth of the dream, myth of the dream)

Born as ghosts
A warning, you sufferers, begin to speak our words
Born as ghosts
Born as ghosts"
-- "Born as Ghosts" - Rage Against the Machine