lpetrich

I sometimes wonder where such guys run off to at times like this -- I wonder why they are such cowards. If some fundie theocracy sends them to "re-education camps" for denying "true Christianity", will they then wake up to what has been happening to them? Or will they meekly go along and brag about how they deserved their punishment?

simian

I hope they speak up before they have to write poetry like:

"First they came for the Muslims,
And I did not speak up because I was not a Muslim,
Then they came for the atheists,
And I did not speak up because I was not an athesit..."

I am putting Muslims first, because it seems that a Muslim can be held without charge already, while being an atheist merely makes you a bad person. (Now that I have that phrasing there, didn't Bush refer to Padilla as a "bad man"?)

Simian

Morat

I was happy to see my paper (Houston Chronicle) despite it's ordinarily slight conservative bent, printed quite a few cogent "pro-decision" letters. Their own editoral agains the decision was muted, and based (unsuprisingly) on the "what's it gonna harm" argument.