Comments | pickledginger: The Shrub Administration is at it again

pickledginger

The Shrub Administration is at it again

Feb 16, 2006 02:46

They hate our freedoms!

Yup, those great advocates of the American Way now have decided that bloggers may rank as terrorists. Yes, really.

Quoth the Associated Press, as published in the Friday, February 10, Seattle Post-Intelligencer:WASHINGTON -- The government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how ( Read more... )

homeland insecurity, politics, free speech, the shrub

Comments 4

grey_lady February 16 2006, 08:22:14 UTC

There is a strong irony that I - as an American citizen and a British citizen - feel more comfortable criticising the British government on-line than I do the American government. I sense more freedom of speech here in the UK, where the Bill of Rights doesn't exist, than I do in the country of my birth.

pickledginger February 16 2006, 10:22:33 UTC

Yes, it's terribly ironic, terribly sad.

perlmonger February 16 2006, 13:48:06 UTC

I sense more freedom of speech here in the UK

Give Blair and Clarke time, give 'em time... (and be careful: as someone on my FL pointed out, celebrating July 4 is "glorifying terrorism" ;)

pickledginger February 19 2006, 04:18:34 UTC

No, let's not! Not that I have any say in it, of course.

as someone on my FL pointed out, celebrating July 4 is "glorifying terrorism"

... in oh, so many ways.