Be Happy It’s Only Fifteen Minutes :: December 20th, 2002 ::
Here’s something I hope none of you have to put up with:
Let’s hope the next Islamo-Fascist attack on the United States finds you standing right in the middle of its bullseye.
Let’s also hope that information which could have prevented the attack had been prevented from being discovered in advance by your signs.
So here’s the story: Jessamyn became modestly famous a couple of days ago for a few signs she made that poked fun at the Patriot Act. Like most everyone who read them, I found them lighthearted and witty, and at the same time quite poignant, since they called into question the dubious constitutionality of an (at best) questionable piece of legislation.
But then I remembered that since we are at war with, um, some enemy or another, we have no room for humor, no room for questioning the bad decisions that our governmental leaders make. (These are the freedoms we must sacrifice, I suppose.) Jessamyn apparently had to be reminded of this.
Of course, I don’t know what’s worse about the email she got: was it the freaked-out reactionary poltics that are relevant to only the darkest corners of the Pentagon, or the introduction of the term “Islamo-Fascist” to the English Language? Here’s hoping neither of them get a foothold in our society.
