Obama's depressing flag pin:
Yes, he had to do it. If he didn't
put the flag pin in his lapel, someone on Fox News would have zoomed in on
the lapel and stared into the camera, oozing insider confidence, and
whispered to his audience: "is it asking too much for our president to be
even a little patriotic?" And Obama would have had to say on TV "I
am patriotic" leading the viewer to wonder why he thought anyone thought
he wasn't patriotic. And so it goes. And so you Americans, so
proud of your fantastic culture, your Coors beer, your jack-ass videos, your
right to train your children to use rifles... we in Canada salute you.
August 2, 2010
Added November 9: once again we have prosecutors in the U.S. seeking
psychiatric treatment for a suspect so that he can be held responsible for
crimes committed while he
required psychiatric treatment....
It would seem to me that a judge receiving this motion should immediately rule
that the prosecution has implicitly acknowledged that the defendant is not
responsible for his actions, therefore not guilty.
Brian David Mitchell is clearly delusional. He should be locked up... in a
psychiatrist facility, to protect both himself and the public.
The fact that he may be insane doesn't really matter in America nowadays.
This "kind-hearted", "compassionate", "Christian" nation is so dead set on
savage retribution that it will let nothing stand in it's way anymore.
It is absolutely necessary that you believe there
are dire threats against the United States out there and that only the
institutional powers of the United States law enforcement agencies, along
with Dick Cheney, can keep you safe:
But as time went on, more was revealed about the plot and
the unlikelihood of its success (the fuel pipeline, for example, had safety
mechanisms that would have prevented cascading explosions), as well as the
level of government involvement (the informant had played a somewhat
enabling role in pushing forward the plot). Ny Times, August 1,
2010
Yes, yes. And it turns out that one defendant appears to be somewhat inept:
Mr. “Russell Defreitas can’t mastermind his way out of the
on-off switch on a video camera,”
That's his own lawyer speaking.
And once again we have the specter of government infiltrators actually running
the conspiracy-- isn't this "entrapment"? Yes, it is. Absolutely it is.
Feel safer? Mr. Defreitas is going to spend a long, long time in
prison, mainly because he is a fool. There is not a politician
in the United States who would countenance anything but the most draconian
sentence imaginable. Do you hear me, Americans? You live in a
nation where not a single politician of note has the guts or courage to
state the obvious. Not a single one of your leaders, Democrat or
Republican is willing to consider for even one second the possibility of
saying what he really thinks about all this.
You're laughing? I hear you laughing. Who cares about a man
like Defreitas who sounds foreign anyway. But these same leaders are
the ones who manage your economy and the environment and wars and
intelligence and safety. And there may come a day when we all pay the
price for the same lack of courage and conviction.
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