So I'm watching the news from America in a certain state of disbelief.
It's now OK to spy on people. You don't need a warrant or anything, just announce that an "imminent attack" is suspected.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3813267a12,00.html
It's now OK to arrest people without bothering about boring stuff like evidence or warrants. It's also OK to keep them in prison forever, because trials are so tedious and expensive. Oh, and torture? That's just fine, too.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3813143a12,00.html
And while I know that not every American agrees with this legislation:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/wilwheaton/302821.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/09/28/BL2006092800790.html
I am still, once and for always, astonished that US citizens voted George Bush in for a second term. What's the point of fighting a 'War on Terror', if you bring the terror right back home with you?
I'm told that in the latest Superman movie, the scriptwriters carefully excised the phrase "the American Way" from the list of Superman's virtues.
They had a point.
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