“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift
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"The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital." - Bill Maher
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"The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go

It's a cruel ... cruel summer"

Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Welcome to Big Brother News Service!

The Amarillo Pravda News has embraced the crushing of the FIRST AMENDMENT declaring this AM, "U.S. Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Clarendon, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, described in detail the new and unique threat cyberspace represents." CLICK HERE

Yep, you read that right . . . cyberspace, the internet, and sites like Panhandle Truth Squad, and your personal email . . . they are a danger to America.

We do need to protect the back-end systems, the hardware and telecommunication equipment we rely on, but the knee-jerk's at the AGN fail to ask even the most simple questions.

Who does the policing of your emails, and the web? How do they do this? Who gets to decide who is an enemy? Reminds me of a guy who fought for freedom in the 1930's you know where.

"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out.
Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
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Martin Niemoller

Yes, if you speak out YOU TOO can be determined as a threat in the war on Terra. . .

Don't like this view? let 'em know. john.kanelis@amarillo.com

-Prodigal Son