The land of the "free" and the home of the "brave"
I was thoroughly sickened this morning when I checked my friends' pages and found a link to the The Daily Kos with eye witness reports and video footage from the streets around the republican party convention in St. Paul. While it makes me profoundly grateful that I don't live in the US, the sight of police teargassing a man in a wheelchair is enough to have me livid for the entire day, and quite a few yet to come. And this is the pinnacle of the free western world? Whose influence governs all international politics, and who can overrule the UN with sickening ease? I knew they were rotten on the outside (or towards outsiders) but to treat your own citizens this way? Beyond repulsive.
And I pray to each and every God who will hear me that we don't have to see any more pictures on this site come November.
For all my flisters (and anyone else) who read this: please pass the link on, as it is highly likely that the mass media will not cover this (as also evidenced in the only mention of it being a supposed link (that turns out doesn't exist any more) in a Dutch newspaper, which had a two-page article about how women across the board in Holland admire Sarah Palin (making me wonder who the fuck they interviewed and where their collective brains are). And Dutch journos don't have anything to gain by keeping schtum...
So I have sent the link to GeenStijl.nl, which is the most likely candidate to post this.
And I pray to each and every God who will hear me that we don't have to see any more pictures on this site come November.
For all my flisters (and anyone else) who read this: please pass the link on, as it is highly likely that the mass media will not cover this (as also evidenced in the only mention of it being a supposed link (that turns out doesn't exist any more) in a Dutch newspaper, which had a two-page article about how women across the board in Holland admire Sarah Palin (making me wonder who the fuck they interviewed and where their collective brains are). And Dutch journos don't have anything to gain by keeping schtum...
So I have sent the link to GeenStijl.nl, which is the most likely candidate to post this.