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trinityvixenWolfowitz, you ass. The guy writes in to The New York Times to defend a journalist in Indonesia, who is being prosecuted for criminal libel, essentially. A member of Bush's team standing up to defend civil rights? Get out. Wait, it gets better: the defendant is a Muslem. That about knocks the socks right off. A member of the Bush cabinet defending civil rights and defending a Muslem? Wow, that must have hurt.
Basically, Wolfie goes on to say in his too-cute widdle piece the following choice snippets:
Exhibit A: "...the real test of a democracy is how it protects the right of its citizens."
Exhibit B: "Elections are properly viewed as a mechanism to hold government accountable, particularly in its most fundamental responsibility of protecting the rights of its individual citizens.
Exhibit C: "One of the worst possible ways that power can be abused is to take away the freedom of the press and thereby remove one of the most important mechanisms for ensuring that government respects the rights of its citizens."
Exhibit D: "One hopes that...Indonesia will take steps to ensure that this intimidation of a free press should cease."
And my response to our esteemed Deputy Secretary of Defense:
A: Oh? So what's your excuse for the Patriot Act and blatant racial profiling of Arab-Americans and anyone who resembles them?
B: Wouldn't, say, by this axiom, having the brother of a candidate running elections schemes and games with contested electoral votes be a violation of the rights of individual citizens? And when citizens step forward to contest the assumption of the government about the election, and the government ignores them, what then? How is that protecting the rights of individual citizens? Or is it just that minorities don't matter, Wolfie?
C: I. Cannot. Believe. He. Went. There. For justification for this disbelief, see the prior incidences of the Bush administration trying to keep the names of the dead from being read on air, to supress the photos of the returning coffins....need I go on?
D: Yes, by all means...INDONESIA, you go right ahead and make it a free press over there. None of that for us, thanks. We like being told we're being lied to by our liberal media (an exact opposite of this case in Indonesia, in the US, it's the government that slams the press) and not to trust anything we might hear unless it's from Fox News.
Basically, Wolfie goes on to say in his too-cute widdle piece the following choice snippets:
Exhibit A: "...the real test of a democracy is how it protects the right of its citizens."
Exhibit B: "Elections are properly viewed as a mechanism to hold government accountable, particularly in its most fundamental responsibility of protecting the rights of its individual citizens.
Exhibit C: "One of the worst possible ways that power can be abused is to take away the freedom of the press and thereby remove one of the most important mechanisms for ensuring that government respects the rights of its citizens."
Exhibit D: "One hopes that...Indonesia will take steps to ensure that this intimidation of a free press should cease."
And my response to our esteemed Deputy Secretary of Defense:
A: Oh? So what's your excuse for the Patriot Act and blatant racial profiling of Arab-Americans and anyone who resembles them?
B: Wouldn't, say, by this axiom, having the brother of a candidate running elections schemes and games with contested electoral votes be a violation of the rights of individual citizens? And when citizens step forward to contest the assumption of the government about the election, and the government ignores them, what then? How is that protecting the rights of individual citizens? Or is it just that minorities don't matter, Wolfie?
C: I. Cannot. Believe. He. Went. There. For justification for this disbelief, see the prior incidences of the Bush administration trying to keep the names of the dead from being read on air, to supress the photos of the returning coffins....need I go on?
D: Yes, by all means...INDONESIA, you go right ahead and make it a free press over there. None of that for us, thanks. We like being told we're being lied to by our liberal media (an exact opposite of this case in Indonesia, in the US, it's the government that slams the press) and not to trust anything we might hear unless it's from Fox News.
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