For those of you who do not know me intimately - I wasn't born here....
At some point of my growning up, my parents decided to travel from Moscow to New York, with one way tickets, which is how all real traveling should be done. I had to come along, being a minor of sorts.
I finished high school at sixteen, and promptly declared that I liked heavy metal music, perms, boys and i was gonna smoke if it killed me. We had this brand of cigarettes in Moscow called Manhattan, and it came in a gorgeous sky-blue and white packaging, with the skyline of the city being completly white. It looked oh so promising to a sixteen-year-old me - that's where were were 'traveling to'... A city of white skyscrapers where one could say: "With All Due Respect, Fuck You, Mister President," and still be alive in the morning.... That's the country I moved to, cause my parents couldn't say stuff like that and get away with it - they'd be homeless or locked up, but here they could. We all could.
Not that any of us wanted to utter that sentence, but it felt GREAT knowing that it was possible.
So how and why is it that all of us here are basically ignoring the fact that our personal freedoms (all of them) just got trampled on? Why are we ok with it?
See, here is the thing... If the phone company turns in the records of my conversations to the FED, i could care less if I was talking about uncle Joe's liver transplant - the subject matter is and always has been irrelevant. It's my conversation to which they, whoever they may be, have no RIGHT per the Constitution of this country...
It's not about terrorism or freedom of speech... It's not about how afraid we are of anyone with an Arabic sounding name or accent. It's not about our kids' future safety... It's about a much larger monster, that we have bred and raised in the name of Fear, that we've been feeding one Constitutional Amemdment at a time, knowing full well that the beast is insatiable...
I haven't written much in a while, for a reason... We are all pedlling used goods in a used country.
The mermaids will not sing to any of us if we keep silent...
>> Copyright (C) 2008, inna hardison. please, don't steal from the starving artists, it's illegal and well, just plain freakin' wrong!
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