From the NYTimes,
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is locked in a standoff with the Internal Revenue Service, preferring to risk its tax exemption rather than hand over documents for an I.R.S. review that the civil rights group contends is politically.
Politics is war by other means, and civil society is now another battle zone. "You are for us or against us" has to be one of the defining phrases in American democracy, the decline thereof. What is democracy for if not to assemble peacefully, to speak freely, to organize and to petition government for redress? Ah well, I'm not black, just liberal.
You, Sir, are delusional!
What psychotic nerve or psyhedelic drug has led you to believe that you live in a Democracy. Welcome to the gulag, please enjoy your stay. You may continue to amuse yourself with these ravings, in fact, please do, our lobotomists are standing by.
How mad are you? To admit publically that you are a terrorist? "Just liberal." Fortunately, for you, we know you are insane. If you were to deny that you were a liberal, that would be different, that would be proof of your latent terroristic tendencies.
But Democracy? Assembly, redress, speech? What century are you living in? Words, meaningless words, rendered so by the might of my world historical rubber.
Tabula rasa, baby.
Posted by: brian | March 22, 2005 at 09:31 AM
My views are definitely "quaint," I was raised before 9/11 changed everything. We are now living in a state of exception. Things will get back to normal after we win the war against evil.
Posted by: Phil | March 22, 2005 at 11:21 PM