posted 2003/03/29 at 21:00
I've been thinking about the war recently, and the feelings it's been drawing out in me. One of the big things that's been bothering me is how people who are against the war are being misrepresented, marginalized, harrassed, abused and so on. We're already seeing the effects of blacklisting, I lost track of the number of protestor arrests a long time ago, and of course I'd refer you to fair.org for nice details on how the media's going along with all of this shit for nothing more than business purposes. (Hey, war sells, you know?)
I've always said that I've never really seen myself as a patriot, but I'm really beginning to wonder. I don't think I'd be so angry about what's going on if I weren't so appalled by the supression of free speech and exchange of ideas, ideas that the United States of America, at least in principle, upholds. In practice ... that's another story. And honestly, I'm offended that so many people view me as somehow being less of an American because of my objections to this war. So maybe I do have a string of patriotism in me; it's just manifested in a way that I usually don't recognize it as such.
Oh, and even if the front page hasn't been that active lately (been dealing with stuff), the .forum has actually been pretty active lately. Big thanks to anikolas, Don and Joe for actually giving the .forum something resembling life.
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