Balance isn't going to get us Habeas Corpus back. Balance would slow down and even out the changes happening, meaning we'd be settled where we are, and where we are is a scary, scary place to be.
"back where we started"-- back when I word-associated "politics" to pork-bellies and term limits? Please, please, please. Now I associate "politics" with journalists being handed over to military processing, holding facilities in my city imprisoning people without charges, people of color being threatened with arrest by uniformed officials for showing up at the Ballard locks with a camera, ordinary protesters being held days in warehouses without access to blankets, food, hygiene, or medication on the authority of party leaders.
Yep. Dems suck too. I know it. But in between Senator Bedfellow and Senator McCarthy, I'll dance in the streets for Bedfellow. My only hope is that the Democratic Party will take this as a mandate to restore civil liberties with reactionary zeal; my greatest fear is that they will try to capitalize on the increased power themselves, and change nothing.
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Date: 2006-11-09 05:44 am (UTC)Balance isn't going to get us Habeas Corpus back. Balance would slow down and even out the changes happening, meaning we'd be settled where we are, and where we are is a scary, scary place to be.
"back where we started"-- back when I word-associated "politics" to pork-bellies and term limits? Please, please, please. Now I associate "politics" with journalists being handed over to military processing, holding facilities in my city imprisoning people without charges, people of color being threatened with arrest by uniformed officials for showing up at the Ballard locks with a camera, ordinary protesters being held days in warehouses without access to blankets, food, hygiene, or medication on the authority of party leaders.
Yep. Dems suck too. I know it. But in between Senator Bedfellow and Senator McCarthy, I'll dance in the streets for Bedfellow. My only hope is that the Democratic Party will take this as a mandate to restore civil liberties with reactionary zeal; my greatest fear is that they will try to capitalize on the increased power themselves, and change nothing.