And goddess bless Molly Ivins, she has a million of them. Consider the following excerpt, from her article in the Boulder, Colo. Daily Camera, "So 9/11 Means It's Okay to Spy on Americans?"
"Here is a curious fact about the government of this country spying on its citizens. It always goes wrong immediately. For some reason, it's not as though we start with people anyone would regard as suspicious and then somehow slip gradually into spying on Girl Scouts. We get it wrong from the beginning every time. Never seem to be able to distinguish between a terrorist and a vegetarian."
She continues: "The Department of Defense has just proved this yet again with its latest folly of mistaking a flock of Florida Quakers for a threat to overthrow the government."
A FLOCK OF FLORIDA QUAKERS: Scary!
And since I can't help myself, here's one more:
"The usual suspects, like that silly congressman Dan Burton, solemnly try to scare us with the dread specter of war, as though they alone are the hard-headed pragmatists, while only woolly minded liberals care about the Constitution. 'Don't these people realize we're at war?' Well, yes. Why that justifies treating Unitarians like Islamofascists is beyond me."
Me, too--and a lot of other folks who don't easily fit the "wooly-minded liberal" label as well. Gives me hope: If we can't I-M-P-E-A-C-H, maybe we can at least C-E-N-S-U-R-E.
Maybe?
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