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Dec. 17th, 2014 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jack_babalon50 year plus 'cold war' with Cuba over with diplomatic relations to resume between the US. Who cares? CIA Torture report revealing the previous administration lied about its use of enhanced interrogation techniques? Meh. A crucial part of Dodd Frank has been removed that protected us from the 2008 economic melt-down? *shrug*
Oh, and by the way, did you hear that a backwater dictatorship that can barely feed its people has threatened the United States with an attack to rival those on September 11th because they don't like a movie we made?
HOLY!FUCKING!SHIT! Shut down the theaters, fire up the water-boards and light up the Cheney Signal, for the apocalypse is back in town!
I don't know, but once upon a time in the United States, before we became a nation best symbolized by an armed to the teeth morbidly obese white man riding on a Rascal Scooter who shits his pants at the sight of an African-American teenager after dark... we had a little something called 'balls'.
Now, I realize that terrorism is no joke. Fair enough. Neither was Ebola or ISIS but look how quickly that went faded from the national dialogue... and all it took was for the mid-term elections to conclude.
But, suppose for a minute, we reacted not with hysteria, but... courage?
What if we looked back at our culture's rich history of mocking tyrants - from "The Great Dictator" all the way to "Team America" - and decided that such hysterics were an insult to what we as a nation supposedly stands for (besides the accumulation of capital and celebrity).
Seriously, the worst attack I've seen in a movie theater in my country and in my lifetime was not from a rogue nation but from an insane white-boy with access to semi-automatic weapons.
And all we did about that was throw up our hands in the air helplessly... because the Right to Bear Arms is too sacrosanct to place even a modicum of restrictions on it.
Well then, what about that other American Right, Freedom of Speech?
Because what we're doing is self-negating that right out of fear... and oddly enough having the most well-armed civilian population on the planet along with a military whose budget surpasses the next ten military budgets combined is no match for a spoiled fat-kid who claims to be the 'Supreme Leader'.
Well, you know what, if they do decide to release the movie, I'll buy my ticket and see it in a theater. Because saying America is a sentinel for liberty and acting like it are two very different things.
Come on, 'Murica... we can do more than talk the talk can't we?
Oh, and by the way, did you hear that a backwater dictatorship that can barely feed its people has threatened the United States with an attack to rival those on September 11th because they don't like a movie we made?
HOLY!FUCKING!SHIT! Shut down the theaters, fire up the water-boards and light up the Cheney Signal, for the apocalypse is back in town!
I don't know, but once upon a time in the United States, before we became a nation best symbolized by an armed to the teeth morbidly obese white man riding on a Rascal Scooter who shits his pants at the sight of an African-American teenager after dark... we had a little something called 'balls'.
Now, I realize that terrorism is no joke. Fair enough. Neither was Ebola or ISIS but look how quickly that went faded from the national dialogue... and all it took was for the mid-term elections to conclude.
But, suppose for a minute, we reacted not with hysteria, but... courage?
What if we looked back at our culture's rich history of mocking tyrants - from "The Great Dictator" all the way to "Team America" - and decided that such hysterics were an insult to what we as a nation supposedly stands for (besides the accumulation of capital and celebrity).
Seriously, the worst attack I've seen in a movie theater in my country and in my lifetime was not from a rogue nation but from an insane white-boy with access to semi-automatic weapons.
And all we did about that was throw up our hands in the air helplessly... because the Right to Bear Arms is too sacrosanct to place even a modicum of restrictions on it.
Well then, what about that other American Right, Freedom of Speech?
Because what we're doing is self-negating that right out of fear... and oddly enough having the most well-armed civilian population on the planet along with a military whose budget surpasses the next ten military budgets combined is no match for a spoiled fat-kid who claims to be the 'Supreme Leader'.
Well, you know what, if they do decide to release the movie, I'll buy my ticket and see it in a theater. Because saying America is a sentinel for liberty and acting like it are two very different things.
Come on, 'Murica... we can do more than talk the talk can't we?