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So, anyone hear any news out of Minneapolis other than OMG PALIN'S CHILD IS TEH PREGNANT? Like, oh, say, the riots where they are arresting protesters, journalists, and anyone who happens to be passing by? You know, the riots where they are not telling people how long before they're going to be able to post bail? The riots where the police were using gas and people were waking up last week with assault rifles in their faces? The same riots where less than two hundred stupid and violent protesters evidently justify blockading several blocks, using gas, arresting innocent people, and denying them basic rights?

You know, the ones you probably haven't heard much about. The ones that weren't even being reported until Saturday or Sunday, even though I, living in Arizona, got wind of it Thursday night?

Yeah, those riots.

For the last seven years, we have been losing our rights because OMG TERRORISTSES!!! and we put up with it. We complained, but we didn't do anything, even as phone conversations were monitored and people were tortured--sorry, interrogated--and no matter how much people talked about how sucky things were (RAR WAR!!!)--

NO ONE'S DONE ANYTHING.

Oh sure, there's been the odd protest, but nothing anywhere near the movements of the sixties, despite the frequent comparisons to the Vietnam War. Evidently, no one really cares enough to DO something about it.

Well this is the best chance we're ever going to get. Right now, there is what basically amounts to fascism right here in the United States. Because really, what use have we for rights when someone as amazingly important as the President is in town? I think it's totally justifiable to arrest innocent people or not tell them when they'll be able to post bail because some politicians are in town. They're clearly more important than everyone else's rights. Clearly.

So if you actually care about the future of the U.S. (if you're reading my LJ, you're probably on the young side, so you probably have a bit of time left in your life to live in however this country turns out) do something. Please. I don't think anyone really wants to live in a totalitarian state. I know I don't.

Other posts and links about this:

http://www.alexandraerin.com/?p=261#more-261

http://cygna-hime.livejournal.com/319470.html

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/02/rnc.security/index.html

http://tinyurl.com/54v3or

Come on, people, we can't just freaking sit here!

Date: 2008-09-04 04:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenofzan.livejournal.com
Haha, yeah, that might be easier if I had a myspace.

Date: 2008-09-04 04:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenofzan.livejournal.com
I have abandoned my principles for this, I hope you know.

Date: 2008-09-04 05:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] parabolabear.livejournal.com
;) you is wonderful. nora's apartment with lydia is playing home to a buncha anarchists and she said they didnt come home tonight X_X

Date: 2008-09-04 05:07 am (UTC)

Date: 2008-09-04 05:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenofzan.livejournal.com
ps abandoning my principles means signing up for myspace. So why am I still not seeing...?

Date: 2008-09-04 05:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] parabolabear.livejournal.com
oh cos you have to be my friend. oi. ill just c/p im silly okkkkkkkkk sorry!

Date: 2008-09-04 05:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] parabolabear.livejournal.com
hope it worksssss
if you want the coding for yerself you hit "reply" as if youre gonna write back to me (its at the bottom o the bulletin) and thennnnnnnnn voila

Date: 2008-09-04 05:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] queenofzan.livejournal.com
jesus christ. Or whatever else I could say that would sound that emphatic.

Date: 2008-09-04 05:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] parabolabear.livejournal.com
WAIT NVM i accepted you
now try

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