Happy Labor Day
I know, a day late but not a dollar short. Yesterday was Labor Day and I freaked out thinking it was Sunday. Various hilarious hijinks ensued which nobody witnessed, because I was ALONE. It doesn’t happen all that often and I am a person who craves solitude, so I was a happy camper. I love my kids, but every once in a while I need a break to be a better Mummy. They came home from visiting Oji-san last night, tired and very happy to see me too. Bless them.
The thing that’s concerning me most right now is the lack of mainstream media attention to the raiding and arresting of peaceful protesters in Minnesota. “Conspiracy to commit riot”? OMGWTF? What kind of lameass charge is that? Searching without warrants? Menacing protesters with assault rifles? It’s blatantly unconstitutional. It’s like (and the Muffin actually said this first) 1968 again, only the news won’t report it. I think it’s because Rupert Murdoch owns a huge chunk of the news and his political slant is such that he doesn’t care if a few liberals get hassled, as long as it keeps a large-corporation-and-rich-people-friendly government in power. Talk about not respecting the Constitution–how much further will it get shredded before ordinary people realize they are living in a nightmare police state rather than the one our Founding Fathers set up?
I know someone will mention the WTO demonstrations in Seattle. But this is apples and oranges, people, and don’t fall for that kind of sloppy thinking. This is a federal crackdown on law-abiding peace protesters–pacifists, for Christ’s sake. If you’re going to say they deserved it, let me ask you this: do YOU deserve to live in a police state under a totalitarian regime? If you feel you do not, then the harassment of people attempting to exercise their right to free and peaceful assembly is something you need to be concerned with.
Speaking of things to be concerned about, how about Joel’s Army? (gacked from Pharyngula, my new favorite time sink. If PZ Myers and I weren’t both married, I’d SO be his groupie.)
It’s enough to make one want to crawl through that newly-discovered portal to the Mayan underworld. I can’t think of Xibalba without thinking of The Fountain, which totally kicked ass. I love that movie. I hated one of the director’s first efforts, Pi, but I loved The Fountain.
And that about finishes me up for today. I have more to talk about, but it can wait for tomorrow. I’ve got some writing to get in.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Can you say Kent State? Yeah, I was just commenting about this while watching the news earlier, saying it was funny how there were no protesters in Denver, but they show up in force in Minneapolis and are treated like terrorists. Look out, some neanderthal right-wing gun-toting don’t-kill-unborn-babies-or-I’ll-bomb-your-house idiot might be forced to read a sign! Oh, the shame.
btw – I was just the opposite – loved Pi, but The Fountain left me wanting to scratch my own eyes out. Now Cube, there was a movie.