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Thursday, April 01, 2004
Posted
8:27 AM
by Gerald Klaas
Bill of Rights no longer valid in Louisiana
Almost as frightening as this horrendous decision is the staggering amount of apathy that has resulted from it. CNN barely mentioned it in its infinitely annoying ticker, and Headline News had a brief sixty-second story before going to their batch of "wacky, but true" stories.If this one isn't overturned at the Supreme Court, we truly are in deep trouble. With cities and states passing resolutions condemning parts of the Patriot Act, I can't imagine that this will go too much longer without being "discovered" by the populace. Of course it won't be "the media" that brings it to us, it will be the Internet.
Gerald Klaas
I'm trying to follow the ideals of Henry David Thoreau, in his essay On Civil Disobedience. Thoreau refused to cooperate with The Machine of oppressive government and encouraged all moral people to do the same. He referred to this "civil disobedience" as creating friction in the machine. Given enough friction for a long enough period of time, the machine will break.
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