Sorry I'm late on this rant. I just got back from DEF CON 15, and given the nature of that convention, I had to be very, very careful what I did with my laptop, lest I get pwn3d. I dared not log into Daily Kos on the con wi-fi, lest my password be sniffed.
Anyways, I got home to hear about the FISA "modernization", aka the latest evisceration of the Fourth Amendment, and to hear that so many Democrats voted for this abomination, including my own Democratic Senator Salazar (Fuck you, you treasonous Quisling DLC Vichy Democrat sack of shit!)
I'm incredibly furious. Enraged to the point where I'm pacing around my apartment like an enraged tiger in a cage, looking for something to hurt. I was fucking betrayed. I gave my money, my time, my sweat to the Democratic Party to get them elected, and this is how they repay me? Fuck that!
I'm pacing like a tiger in a cage, because in effect, I am in a cage. I'm trying to hold my anger down so I don't punch walls, screaming at the top of my lungs loud enough for the neighbors on the other side of my apartment's thin walls to call the men in white coats to take me away for some doses of thorazine. This country that used to be a beacon of liberty has become a cage.
I'm in a cage, and you Democrats who voted for this bill helped build it. I'm talking specifically about Salazar, because he's my Senator. You voted for the Military Commissions Act of 2006. You voted for the Iraq War funding compromise that amounted to nothing but a blank check for Bush. And now you voted to eviscerate the Fourth Amendment with this monstrosity. That's three strikes against peace and freedom you made. Why should I ever trust you again?
Give me one good reason. I can't think of one. Why should I give you one vote, or one dollar, or one shit to support your thirst for power?
I'm tired of bipartisanship. I don't normally go for a black-and-white view of the world, but being bipartisan with the Republicans is literally as bad now as being bipartisan with the Nazis. Yes, I just invoked Godwin's law, but I don't care anymore. I don't want to hear Chamberlain's Peace In Our Time again. I've stopped believing in that long ago. I want war now. I want the Democrats at full scale government-stopping war with Bush at this point. I don't care if we lose. I just care that you fucking fight for our goddamned liberties. Do everything from filibustering all appropriations bills in the pipe to shut the entire government down to committing seppuku in front of the Oval Office. We don't care about collateral damage anymore, and we don't care about your well-being, or your electoral chances in 2008. We care about peace and liberty, and demand you sacrifice all to get it.
Come home with your shield or on it. We, the voters will accept nothing less.