This is way kuwel for my boring little blog

Yesterday, I noted that the Duck was “horrified” by the deaths of the Chinese at the hands of terrorists during a midnight raid.

The Duck fired up the keyboard with an immediate response and his comments to me made it clear that he was horrified and wondered if I didn’t feel the same way.

Well, he was right to question my feelings on that score because I was not at all horrified but incensed.

Every new shock administered by those literally blood-thirsty xenophobes show only that they should be hunted down with the same tender mercy they show their victims.

Still, that was not what really got to the Duck who is absolutely livid with regard to John Ashcroft, et al.

The unfortunate truth on that particular score is that the Republicans are not the only ones with a haughty demeanor.

I remember when one particular individual asked for a definition of “sex,” as in the act of. Talk about bravado.

But, getting back to the Republicans, I remember that another guy suspended writs of Habeas Corpus without a whole lot of complaint then or now.

As it stands, I believe the Duck and I have quite a bit of common ground when it comes to the PATRIOT Act and the euthanasia of the Fourth Amendment, I just wish he might see beyond the Red and the Blue.

This is a global civil war not a second American civil war.

Comments

[richard]

"Haughty demeanor' has little to do with my outrage at Ashcroft. It is the belief that he can bend the law at will, and that the president need not be bothered. He can put people in prison with no charges and without the right to see an attorney. That has nothiong to do with haughty demeanor. It's a matter of a new type of government, one that is accountable to no one, one that can sanction torture and then smugly say that everything they do is in compliance with the law (as Bush did at yesterday's press conference). To compare what Ashcroft did last week to Clinton's asking about the definition of sex is bizarre. Ashcroft and Bush have turned the Constitution of the United States on its head. Clinton may have been disingenuous and obnoxious; he was not taking over the law and declaring the Geneva Conventions irrelevant (or smugly reinterpreting them to allow torture at will) norwas he throwing habeas corpus out the window. I hardly see a point of comparison. Clinton was accused of many things, but nothing along the lines of what we've seen Bush and Ashcroft do since 911.

[John]

Very nice site. Will sure visit again.