American Madness

Click on the link to read another story of American madness. A Veteran was sitting having a coffee in a VA facility, wearing a Veterans for Peace t-shirt. He was approached by security and asked to leave or be arrested. Why? He was protesting. You see, sitting quietly, wearing the wrong t-shirt in America constitutes protesting. Suffice it to say, the offending veteran was arrested and charged. He will have his day in court.

That is the freedom he fought for in Vietnam.

Update: July 2, 2006

• Just a quick update on more insanity. Check out a Media Matters post on the Bush administration's declaration of war on media freedom.
• Also, Lawrence Lessig writes on a similar topic in Wired Magazine, in his examination of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.

Update: July 3, 2006

• Different topic, more madness. Read on 27B Stroke 6, Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explaining how the internet works. This idiot is part of the Senate Commerce Committee -- the committee that will decide if net neutrality remains or not.
• More madness, as right-wing bloggers decide to hunt down NYT reporters addresses and kids to expose them to potential harm on the internet? Why? Because NYT Travel section reported on the vacation homes of Cheney and Rumsfeld. Apparently, reporting on the vacation homes of politicians can aide terrorists. At least that's what the right believes, so they're out to defend their leaders by harming other Americans. You know what? The terrorists have already won.