Alas this has been a quiet week, and I have no new adventures to relate to you. That should change tonight as I’m going to a swing party with Davey. I’ve been nursing a mild depression all week and today that leaves me feeling un-horny and un-enthusiastic about tonight and all the fucking that should go on. Bleah. I wish I felt better.
On another note, does this scare the shit out of you like it does me? If something like this passes, are all voices of dissent going to be silenced in this country? I guess they figure since they’re putting “violence” into it they can get around the first amendment which reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” But can’t you just see them jailing protesters who peacefully assemble under this idea that they’re “homegrown terrorists?” As it is people who dissent have been labeled traitors and “unpatriotic,” when in fact dissenting when your country is doing something wrong denotes, to me, an intense love of your country. If I didn’t love being American and all the freedoms that go along with that, I wouldn’t be as dismayed at the direction this country is heading in. Our rights are being slowly taken away, and that scares the shit out of me. Do I need to worry that some day I may be jailed for even posting this on the internet? It’s high time we got back to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and started running this country the way the founding fathers wanted it to be run.
Dear Nadia,
Aug 6, 2010
I agree that our rights during “Juniors” administration have undermined the consitution.
Billy (from NY)