Liberals must stop saying President Bush hasn't asked Americans to sacrifice for the War on Terror. On the contrary, he's asked us to sacrifice something enormous: our civil rights. Now, when I heard George Bush was reading my e-mails, I probably had the same reaction you did--George Bush can read?!
Yes he can, and this administration has read your phone records, credit card statements, mail, internet logs... I can't tell if they're fighting the War on Terror or producing the next season of Cheaters.
I mail myself a copy of the Consitution every morning, just on the hope they'll open it and see what it says! So when it comes to sacrifice, don't kid yourself--you *have* given up a lot! You've given up faith in your government's honesty, the good will of people overseas, and 6/10 of the Bill of Rights. Here's what you've sacrificed: search and seizure, warrants, self incrimination, trial by jury, cruel and unusual punishment. Here's what you have left: handguns, religion, and they can't make you quarter a British soldier.
In previous wars, Americans on the homefront made a very different kind of sacrifice. During World War II, we endured rationing, paid higher taxes, bought war bonds, and women donated their silk undergarments so they could be sewn into parachutes. Can you imagine nowadays a Britney Spears or a Lindsay Lohan going without underwear?
Bad example, but look, George Bush has never been too bright about understanding "furriners", but he does know Americans. He's asked *this* generation to sacrifice the things he knew we would not miss--our privacy and our morality. He let us keep the money. But he made a cynical bet, that we wouldn't much care if we became a Big Brother country that has now tortured a lot of random people. And yet no one asks the tough questions, like "Is torture necessary?" and "Who will watch the watchers?"
In conclusion, after September 11, President Bush told us Osama bin Laden "could run but he can't hide". But he ran and hid. So Bush went to Plan B: pissing on the Constitution and torturing random people. Conservatives always say the great thing Reagan did was make us feel good about America again. Well, do you feel good about America now? I'll give you my answer. And to get it out of me, you don't even need to hold my head under water and have a snarling guard dog rip my nuts off. No, I don't feel very good about that.
Bill Maher - March 16, 2007
4 comments:
Interesting post. Of course now I've got to find a way of lowering my blood pressure, as it steadily rises whenever I hear or read something about the Bush Administration.
But the George Bush reading emails...poor thing. I have to remember to use very small words from now on. He's probably getting tired of running to the dictionary.
Bill Maher was dead on with this one.
Good heavens.... I could have written this post! Although no one would read it. Everytime I touch on pilitics or world issues in my blog no one will touch it with a ten foot poll. Seems they only want witty stories about herpes and whatnot out of me.
Not that I have herpes.
I agree with everything you've said here! My husband is in the Army and it's always fun to be the anti-war, anti-Bush people. We rant and rave and people just think of us as "those silly hippies (even though I'm 28.)
Just for fun I bought my daughter a t shirt that says, "I'm smarter the George W. Bush"
I want one that says, "Lee Harvey Oswald... where are you now that your country needs you??"
Could I get in trouble for that?
It's refreshing to hear that there are people in the military who are not in perfect lockstep with Dubya. I wish your husband the best.
Yeah, you could probably get in trouble for the "Lee Harvey" shirt, but you could always say that you bought it when Clinton was president. :P
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