So I read that Shrubya has flushed our lovely little habeas corpus thing down the toilet. So much for "land of the free." So much for "protecting America's freedom." So much for "civil liberties" and "Constitutional rights" and "basic human rights." So much for our rights! For someone who claims to be protecting rights and liberties, he doesn't seem to be all that big on KEEPING THEM THE WAY THEY ARE. Gay people can't marry--so much for the freedom of pursuit of happiness. He doesn't want women to control their own bodies. And now he can declare ANYBODY an enemy of the state without giving a reason why, AND he can imprison them indefinitely without a justifiable cause.

This isn't "freedom", folks. This is one step closer to a dictatorship. And don't give me that "IT'LL NEVER HAPPEN HERE!" shit, either. It HAS happened. FDR. 1940s. Japanese internment camps. Remember that? It's happening again. The frightening thing? It was a unanimous Congressional vote--100 to 0. People WANT this to happen. Jesus fucking Christ!

What we need to do, brothers and sisters, is STAND UP. We can't just lay back and accept it easily. Lying back and saying "what can we do about it?" will do nothing. Saying "support our troops! Freedom! FREEDOM!" will not protect our rights. What we have to do is stand up and let the higher-ups know that we're not GOING to lie down and accept our rights being stripped away, one by one. We have to fight for our rights. We have to see beyond our white suburban middle-class lives and see what is really important--what needs to be done, for the good of all people, American or not.

Don't just lie down and accept a fucking, folks. That's how it starts.

"Eve of Destruction" comes to mind quite suddenly...