Back in 1988, when Bush pere painted my Governor Dukakis (too honest to be President) as a card-carrying ACLU member, I promptly joined the ACLU. Now, blankly, Blankley is suggesting a comeback of sedition laws. So I guess I must continue to speak out against Bush Jr. Just a reminder to Blankley that John Adams and the Federalist Party that controlled Congress back in the late 1790s enacted sedition laws that the then Republicans (now Democrats) led by Thomas Jefferson challenged and succeeded in defeating Adams (as well as the Federalists in Congress) in his reelection bid. Bring it on, Tony Blankley!

The real story behind all this, of course, is the background regarding the chemical attack due in late October.

That will necessitate postponement on the November counter-coup, speedy enactment of enabling legislation by the Fascist Party extending our Great Warrior Leader's landslide mandate (5-4, remember?) until the emergency is over.

Say in 30 years or so.

I think only Bush's defeat will ensure victory in Iraq

The Fascisti are creeping out from under their rocks en masse. [hands out stakes, garlic, holy water, sticky rice, silver nitrate and tri-nitro-toluol]

Seriously, did you see that thing on "The New Daddy State" over at Atlantic, and Glen Reynolds deploring the free press? It's like they're all tossing off their masks.

I think that, in hindsight, Godwin's Law was a bad thing (in my personal subculture, we didn't enforce it at all, I knew people whose families had fled either Hitler or Stalin) because it made it impossible to talk about this crap by definition, so they flourished, since it was so obviously too absurd to think that anyone could really be resurrecting the Essence of Reich these days.

Orcinus has some good posts up on how it was just too gauche in journalism to take the neo-nazi/skinhead/militia types seriously, and how this was a mistake.

Me, I'm a paranoiac who misspent most of my adolescence reading alternately milsf, espionage, and world history, so when people go "that's unthinkable! Our Government would never do X!" I'm going "now, logistically, would it be possible/probable for them to do X?* Nyeeh, but, just to be on the safe side..." which used to make people think I was a flaming nutcase, and now they're not sure.

(*Like the tracking of all library books checked out, frex, which used to be a standard sign of being a nutbar conspiracy theorist, and now - you guys have all heard about MATRIX by now, right?)

I've been arguing against politically correct speech for years. I want bigots to say what they think out loud, so I know who and what I am dealing with. I was glad Jesse Jackson said that stuff about "Hymietown" back in, what was it, '88? Gave me some information I didn't have.

1. Timely
   
2. Strategery
   
3. Webb wins
   
4. Huh?
   
5. Bunnypants in Bagdad
   
6. Outage
   
7. Filthy Lucre Watch
   
8. Playing the numbers
   
9. My letter to Countdown
   
10. Jefferson's Nigerian Scams