I'm still pissed 'cuz something's getting missed. I raise my fist.

What the fuck?! How can there be different standards for "fair trials" for different people, and still be called "fair"? Or maybe only "other" people from "other" places are held to a different standard.

Liberty is "defended" by torture and secret detention, being put on trial without access to the evidence to use in your own defense, and *making* the law to allow all this *after* the alleged crimes took place. How Orwellian.

With the US government's record on this issue, I'm not too surprised, especially given the current junta we have in power. How easy it is to piss off the world.

I know I'm gonna hear from some "conservatives" that there's nothing wrong with this, as it makes us "safer." "Conservative" in this case should be rewritten R-A-D-I-C-A-L R-A-C-I-S-T. I don't consider myself conservative, but I doubt most conservatives find arrest without charges, secret detention without trial, and lack of legal representation or access to evidence for defense to be in line with their philosophy. And, oh yeah, don't forget, President Bring-It-On! keeps comparing Muslim terrorists to historically oppressive regimes.

The most high-profile terrorist conviction in the last five years was Eric Rudolph. Yes, the fuckwad who bombed clinics because they performed abortions, and the Olympics for, well, I guess performing non-White people. I would like to hear this administration talk about "Christofascists" as much as they talk about "Islamofascists."

KKK leaders aren't being thrown into military prisons that this administration argues are outside American legal jurisdiction. (Isn't Iraq as well?) I happen to think no one should have that done to them, but it's funny that after Eric Rudolph and Timothy McVeigh, white terrorist organizations aren't prosecuted to the same extent some Muslim *charitable organizations* are. Well, not funny, but disgustingly racist.

And fuck, my throat is still sore. Son of a bitch.

All about me.

No patients this morning so I've been reading. After passing out while reading a laser textbook I decided to read some news and blogs.

There's a great piece on Alternet about the ramifications of "all about me" thinking.

Cool points to whoever can name the band and song:

"We look out for number 1 so much, number 2's dehumanized. If you don't believe me take a look out on the street. Human fucking beings living in refrigerator boxes begging assholes like you and me for money just to eat."