CIA Given Permission To Kill Suspected US Terrorists At Will
So I was indeed puzzled a few weeks ago to read that the video game killers in the CIA had killed suspected Al Qaida operatives with a remote control robot plane, and that one of these was a US citizen. I mean, I’d known that due process was being denied to non-US citizens, but I did think that US citizens still enjoyed this privilege. Now I stand corrected – Bush has given the CIA permission to kill US citizens if it suspects them of subversive or terrorist activities. No trial, no judicial oversight, terminal sanction following guilt by association. I’m glad they cleared that up for me. Watch the skies.
I don’t understand why more people aren’t upset by this. I can’t believe how much the government is taking advantage of our fear in order to get away with everything. But then, I suppose it’s always been like that, only now it’s all being done in public.
I think it’s time to move to Canada… (although I’m sure they can kill suspected Canadian terrorists just as easily).
I think people in the US use “Canada” as a safety valve for a lot of things, much like Ireland uses “emigration” to elide over its social ills. South Park alluded to this…
Sheila: Time’s have changed
Our kids are kids are getting worse
They wont obey their parents
They just want to fart and curse!
Sharon: Should we blame the government?
Liane: Or blame society?
Dads: Or should we blame the images on TV?
Sheila: No, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their beady little eyes
And flappin heads so full of lies
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: We need to form a full assault
Everyone: It’s Canadas fault!
Sharon: Don’t blame me
For my son Stan
He saw the darn cartoon
And now he’s off to join the Klan!
Liane: And my boy Eric once
Had my picture on his shelf
But now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself!
Sheila: Well, blame Canada
Everyone: Blame Canada
It seems that everythings gone wrong
Since Canada came along
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Some Guy: There not even a real country anyway
Ms. McCormick: My son could’ve been a doctor or a lawyer it’s true
Instead he burned up like a piggy on a barbecue
Everyone: Should we blame the matches?
Should we blame the fire?
Or the doctors who allowed him to expire?
Sheila: Heck no!
Everyone: Blame Canada
Blame Canada
Sheila: With all their hockey hubbabaloo
Liane: And that bitch Anne Murray too
Everyone: Blame Canada
Shame on Canada
The smut we must stop
The trash we must smash
Laughter and fun
must all be undone
We must blame them and cause a fuss
Before someone thinks of blaming uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus
It might be used as a safety valve, but only in theory (although I don’t have the immigration rates, but I don’t know anyone who actually did move to Canada–it’s too damn cold). But South Park is using it as a way to blame something other than ourselves–two separate ways to ignore the problem.
Al socieities always have convenient others to project (or to imagine they borrow from). For the Romans, Hellenistic Greece was a source of cultural inspiration and the Romans laboured under a self-projected inferiority complex, much as USians do when considering the allegedly more cultured “British” or “European” cultures. Similarly, when considering their violent natures, USians turn to Canadians for some kind of representation of a kinder, gentler North American white culture. Micheal Moore is perhaps most guilty of this in “Bowling for Columbine”. Then again, the Canadians did give the world William SHatner and Micheal Bolton…
Like all empires, (Roman, Egypt, Turkish etc.) fall because they basically forgot what made them great. Now it’s our turn.
There is a theory that Empires grow more or less accidentally and through good fortune, until you wake up one morning after a few decades of expansion and find everyone is calling you an Empire. And that’s when downfall happens, because you end up spending an ever-increasing amount of your GNP on military expenditures to retain this “Empire” status. Eventually, of course, you are either defeated — like the Germans — or your population just decides “T hell with this” and social transformation erodes support for the Empire from within… like the British and Soviet EMpires.