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Speaking of quotes:


The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)


Which is of course why Jose Padilla, petty criminal, was chosen as the announcement that we could hold American citizens, indefinitely, without trial, bail, or even charges.

(I don't think Bush was supposed to mention that they already had 2400 other people whose names we still don't know also similarly held) (then again, maybe he was.)

Amusingly, just as I was typing this, the stereo was nearly drowned out by the noise of the helicopter circling very slow and low over my apartment complex.

It isn't black. I checked.
In fact, there's two of them now: one red and one white.
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