Thursday, September 07, 2006

The Not Death of Irony

"In addition to the terrorists held at Guantanamo, a small number of suspected terrorist leaders and operatives captured during the war have been held and questioned outside the United States in a separate program operated by the Central Intelligence Agency," said Bush.

Since then it’s been decreed that the sun is highest at one o’clock.”
“Who decreed that?”
“The Soviet government.”

(That is, we now have Gulags after railing against the Union formerly known as Soviet for 50 years about their incarceration policy. You may disagree with me, but I think that anyone accused of a crime deserves the right to have a fair and open trial and be judged by his or her peers. Wait, isn't that in our Constitution? Have we become Romans restricting our rights to white, rich Americans?)

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