Friday, June 17, 2005

America?

Apparently this government believes:

* It can make decisions about what a person will do in the future and pass judgement based on that assumption.
* It can make a de facto prosecution based on a person's religion, studies, and speech.
* It can follow due process without revealing to the public the details of that due process.
* It can detain minors on false premises for as long as they desire.

This is your U.S. government, remember. Your U.S. government.

Link:

At one point in the journey, she had wished she had never gone to America, raging, "I see now you have no privacy, no liberty." But now she longed for even one more day in New York, "to say goodbye."

She
didn't
do
anything.

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Spirit of Jesse

Link:

Introducing [legislation to withhold half of the United States' dues unless the United Nations met specified requirements for change] last week, Representative Henry J. Hyde, Republican of Illinois and chairman of the House International Relations Committee, argued, "You can't have reform if you don't withhold dues."

Wasn't this Jesse Helms' ploy in his days on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, holding back UN dues? I was just mulling over the other day how glad I was that Helms was out of government. But, oh happy day, his spirit lives on.

I guess someone has to play to the anti-UN crowd. You know, now that Bolton is in so much trouble.