Is this the same idea as "Freedom Fries"? Like, you are trying to take back (as in rename) something with "French" in the name? I admit, I didn't stop and ask about it, and perhaps there IS such a thing as "Freedom Toast," and I have just not heard of it.

This really gets me, though. I understand that whoever created the menu probably thought: "I'll call it 'Freedom' instead of 'French', then I won't have a reason to not eat it."

Faulty logic. Because if you like eating it, it doesn't matter what it's called. Also, if you name it in the form of an ideal that you carry, does that mean that it's always had that quality, but you've just been too slow to identify it? For example, did the French recognize the fact that their toast symbolizes freedom first, and you just called them "French," when you really wanted to call them "Freedom," but you just figured it out, so you changed it.

That must be the case, because all the French people I know are pretty cool. Also, they haven't started a preemptive war recently.

At least, not that I know of.

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Friday, January 21, 2005

Indict Bush

I would like to write an indictment for President Bush for being complicit in a system of organized oppression.

Anyone know how to write such things?

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Tuesday, December 14, 2004

War = Cash

Looking around today, I find this little nugget on the bbc's web site.

It's been long known that there are private contractors in Iraq acting as security personnel. What is news to me, is that the DEA, DoD, and other government groups are using private contractors to run their wars.

Oh, that makes me ill. Now the United States is a global juggernaut with mercenaries. I guess I want to know what kind of sick people are in control of these kinds of decisions. And how to get them to shovel manure for the rest of their life. Or maybe clean up superfund sites. Or maybe make them act as crossing guards in the poorest neighborhoods of our cities.

Jerks.

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Wednesday, December 8, 2004

The Real Reason

I have seen the President and his Cabinet describe the war on terror in many ways. They have enumerated many reasons why we need to fight terrorism, and they typically evoke some kind of patriotic or democratic rhetoric to support their arguments for war. I have been waiting for a long time, and I haven't been able to identify for what.

Until now.

I don't believe the President, his Cabinet, the Military or any of the collaborators in this effort are in the mess to stop terrorism. I don't believe that they understand the cause or the proper remedy for terrorism. If they understood the cause of terrorism, they would not have gone to war. If they wanted to stop the advancement of terrorism, they would not have gone to war. If they ever try to inculcate the idea that terrorists hate freedom-loving nations, they are wrong.

I want someone, ANYONE, to ask the President, point blank, "what causes terrorism?" And if he says, "the roots are foggy, but I would point the finger at the historic foreign policy of the United States," I will eat my shoe. In fact, I will eat both of my shoes.

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