A lot of the reason I haven't written lately, moreso than the reasons I usually provide (too busy, depressed, lazy) is that I've been sooo pissed off about things lately that I was afraid to write any of it down for fear of accidentally setting my laptop on fire in the process.

The botched second subway attacks bug me. I'm not the type to. You know. Point fingers and cry "conspiracy!" but there's just something to it that's tickling my intuition and saying "this is suspicious!" And now that the US is claiming they had the chance to catch the guy who planned it a month ago if only big cowardly England had let them makes me raise both of my eyebrows so high I lose them in my hair.

Jake and I saw the effect of the random subway searches Friday. That was the first time I've actually been in the city since they instituted the policy. I wasn't stopped and neither was Jake, but still. The army of police officers just hanging out at every station we stopped at was disconcerting, not to mention the cadets who seemed to follow us from stop to stop to stop. It's an invasion of privacy and those who say they don't mind it really aggravate me.

I will go on record as saying this is pointless. When's the last time you saw CNN declare "Muslim terrorist plot foiled when police discovered bombs in a man's luggage while boarding an airplane." You haven't. Because it hasn't happened. In the days following the World Trade Center attacks every person on the news was some crazy white nutso having a panic attack. And you know they haven't caught anybody with these preemptive searches because the moment they did Bush would masturbate it all over the world with his annoying fucking smirk.

I think all of this is pointless in general. Life has taught you that if a person or group is determined enough they will find a solution to whatever obstacle you present them. Vaccines for crippling diseases were produced, teenagers found out ways to download songs illegally after the loss of Napster, and terrorists will find some way to blow us up even if they have to shove antimatter in their noses and sneeze.

That is assuming there are even terrorists to begin with and Bush didn't ask Connie Rice to go visit London last week out of happenstance.

As I've said to both C.S. and Jake a few times recently, the road towards Absolutism and tyrannical governments starts with a few civil liberties being removed at a time when it all seems reasonable until suddenly we wake up as a society and realize it's gone too far and we have no constitution.

I personally don't think I'm going to be one of the peaceful ones when it reaches that point.

Entry last modified: April 14, 2006 at 1:44 pm.

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