Sunday, August 29, 2004

Justice Department Censors Supreme Court Quote

Despite the fact that the ACLU's brief on the Patriot Act was a public document, and they had their own copies of it, the Justice Department insisted on censoring it before releasing it to the public. One result is this redaction of a quote from a Supreme Court decision.

Yes, do the double take. It is hard to wrap your mind around such mind-numbing idiocy at first. The Justice Department censored a quote from a published Supreme Court decision. Further, the quote was about abuse of the excuse of 'domestic security' to curb civil rights. The irony is so deep it is recursive. Push it slowly against various orifices in your head and try to relax. It takes practice to allow such an enormous stupidity into your brain, but if you practice diligently it becomes almost routine - as the Justice Department under Ashcroft so capably demonstrates.

At first, I could not understand this thing. It made no sense. I shook all my frames of reference. It pissed me off. But now, I think I understand.

Imagine the complete bewilderment of a RadCon faced with a man pissing on an effigy of Christ, or a woman covered in chocolate and frigging herself with a G.I. Joe doll. What can he make of this... these have to be the stupidest, most vile, perverse and pointless scenes he has ever witnessed. His mind automatically rejects these messages and concludes that this all must be a joke, in very poor taste, of which he is the butt.

Now I get it. This is performance art... fascist performance art.

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home




Feeds:
RSS/Atom Feed Site Meter
Powered by Blogger