This enrages me beyond comprehension
May. 20th, 2004 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brightrosefoxhttp://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/03OpOPN62051504.htm
And where I found it: http://www.livejournal.com/community/write_away/350124.html
Good lord.
They ordered the poem destroyed. Posters were destroyed. Artistic expression was threatened. People's jobs are on the line. Because of a student's poem that *ahem* criticized what the Bush administration was doing.
A "penalty of fine and imprisonment" for "translating foreign works of art from Iran, Sudan, and North Korea."
Oh my dear gods in all heavens, this is disgusting.
So where is the other side of all this? I would really love to hear what those assholes have to say for themselves.
Why has our government become so terrified of people saying words? Oh, right. Because we say words the government doesn't like. Gods fucking forbid a little girl writes a poem and is deemed "un-American." Sure, maybe the poem might have been a little harsh and forthright, but by gods, she has every right to it! It's her thoughts! Her words! My gods.
Can I say that I think I hate what this country is becoming?
And where I found it: http://www.livejournal.com/community/write_away/350124.html
Good lord.
They ordered the poem destroyed. Posters were destroyed. Artistic expression was threatened. People's jobs are on the line. Because of a student's poem that *ahem* criticized what the Bush administration was doing.
A "penalty of fine and imprisonment" for "translating foreign works of art from Iran, Sudan, and North Korea."
Oh my dear gods in all heavens, this is disgusting.
So where is the other side of all this? I would really love to hear what those assholes have to say for themselves.
Why has our government become so terrified of people saying words? Oh, right. Because we say words the government doesn't like. Gods fucking forbid a little girl writes a poem and is deemed "un-American." Sure, maybe the poem might have been a little harsh and forthright, but by gods, she has every right to it! It's her thoughts! Her words! My gods.
Can I say that I think I hate what this country is becoming?
