The Mind Still Boggles

The Democrats' National Convention is but a memory now. But yours truly is still having difficulties coming to terms with their event's "Free Speech Zone". Not that the herding of protesters into caged-off enclaves far removed from the objects of their protests is anything new, even for the "Democratic" Party. But rather than rubbing our faces in our impotence, couldn't they at least have given it a nice, Orwellian name? Something like the "Enhanced Access and Maximum Exposure Centre", or some shit?

One can't help wonder how long 'til the "Free Speech Zone" is located in the middle of the ocean? Or on the fucking moon?

And how long until one or two ZIP codes in each state are declared "Affordable Health Care Zones", or "No-Police-Shooting-At-Unarmed-Citizens Zones", or "Clean Water Zones", or "School Buildings Still Standing Zones", or the like -- while the rest of the country's ZIP codes are "set aside" as "Maquiladora Zones"?

Posted by Eddie Tews at August 11, 2004 05:30 PM