sick sad world
Jan. 12th, 2004 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amezriWow. This is all fairly disgusting and disturbing. Can I flee the country now? Please? Like, right now. both are via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
thebigfatman
Scenes From A Sad Airport
Welcome to America. Please give us the finger. Smile for the camera. Now get the hell out
just an excerpt..
Look closer. Look domestic. See how so many Americans standing in all the various airport lines for 2.7 hours seem to just sigh and suck it up.
See how they all cast their eyes down and tolerate the multiple driver's-license checks and the general insanity and the obvious government-sponsored invasions of privacy and the happy perky assaults on our civil liberties because, well, it's for our own good, right?
All in the name of inducing a bogus feeling of protection and safety and never you mind America's hilarious gaping arcade of exploitable opportunities for terrorism, from our huge wide-open shipping ports to the intricately distributed unprotected food supply to our antiquated water systems to a thousand other ridiculously obvious apertures.
And never mind that even tiny raging splinter-cell terrorists aren't so stupid as to try the same vile hijack stunt twice. And never you mind that none of this would've stopped any of the 9/11 thugs. But oh yes, let's fingerprint old ladies from Latvia. That oughta do it.
In other news, have a look at what a Brit thinks of the Patriot Act. Big fat "word," dude.
thebigfatmanScenes From A Sad Airport
Welcome to America. Please give us the finger. Smile for the camera. Now get the hell out
just an excerpt..
Look closer. Look domestic. See how so many Americans standing in all the various airport lines for 2.7 hours seem to just sigh and suck it up.
See how they all cast their eyes down and tolerate the multiple driver's-license checks and the general insanity and the obvious government-sponsored invasions of privacy and the happy perky assaults on our civil liberties because, well, it's for our own good, right?
All in the name of inducing a bogus feeling of protection and safety and never you mind America's hilarious gaping arcade of exploitable opportunities for terrorism, from our huge wide-open shipping ports to the intricately distributed unprotected food supply to our antiquated water systems to a thousand other ridiculously obvious apertures.
And never mind that even tiny raging splinter-cell terrorists aren't so stupid as to try the same vile hijack stunt twice. And never you mind that none of this would've stopped any of the 9/11 thugs. But oh yes, let's fingerprint old ladies from Latvia. That oughta do it.
In other news, have a look at what a Brit thinks of the Patriot Act. Big fat "word," dude.
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Date: 2004-01-14 12:15 pm (UTC)