Fascists On The Run

A few weeks ago, this blog asked who would put brick up John Ashcroft's cornhole. Since that time, many precincts have reported with favourable news.

It started with the ever-vigilant Librarians, some of whom have begun daily shredding patrons' records, before the FBI can get its grubby hands on them.

Then the ever-vigilant NYPD announced its plans to destroy a database of anti-war demonstrators' prior political activities, and the Denver Police have taken a similar stance.

Then we had Republicans and Democrats joining together to oppose the two PATRIOT Acts (and criticise the feds' desires to do away with the first PATRIOT Act's sunset provisions).

Now, nearly 100 cities and the state of Hawaii have passed resolutions opposing the PATRIOT Act (with similar efforts underway in 60 cities), and, the city of Arcata has passed an ordinance making it illegal to comply with the PATRIOT Act!

The Bush Administration's domestic policies are quite overtly intended to bring unending harrassment upon minorities and immigrants, and economic privation and paranoia upon the rest of us. It's all in the name of "security", they tell us. So we'd best shut the fuck up and let them pick our pockets and ream our asses, lest we want the terrorists to, er, do the same.

Just as the Administration's permanent state of world war has failed to cow the world's people, so has the domestic war failed to cow the country's people -- who will grow ever more uppity as the glory days of slaughtering sand niggers grow more distant and the consequences of economic stagnation grow more apparent.

What You Can Do: Join up with your local chapter of the Bill of Rights Defence Committee, or start your own. The effort to not only oppose, but to roll back the PATRIOT Act (and its cousins) is only just beginning. Its results, happily, should be more tangible -- and its goals more realisable -- that the opposition of the war machine.

Posted by Eddie Tews at April 28, 2003 05:00 PM