Like we're all just supposed to happily give up our laptops and wave good-bye to all our information as some power-mad asshole with a tin badge steals them and takes them somewhere for "further examination?" And this is somehow just another pain in the ass that we have to live with because if we don't, the terra-ists win?

This must stop. It's already gone on far too long and the response has been grousing on Internet boards and very little else.

I'm honestly out of ideas that don't require maybe 10 million people in a white hot rage taking back the country by any means necessary and kicking these fascist bastards down the nearest abandoned mine shaft. I don't think those 10 million will be Americans, though.

With very few noteworthy exceptions, I haven't seen anybody, anywhere stand up for anything or anyone -- including themselves or even their families -- in so long I can't even remember the last time. The only exceptions are political dissidents and activists who routinely put their bodies on the line because that's all they have left. That's increasingly dangerous here in Taser Nation, and they're well aware of it. But there they are, every Saturday freeway blogging on I-205 overpasses, every Thursday standing in front of the local offices of Portland's waffling Earl Blumenauer (D-Fantasyland), rewarding him for his striking ability to say all the right things and do absolutely nothing. Low numbers, lots of heart and courage.

This is in sharp contrast to our tens of millions of phony swaggering cowpokes and gunslingers who were exposed as cowering candy asses by the Bushies' terror, terror everywhere propaganda storm. They've probably had to modify their bed frames so they're high enough for our rugged individualists to crawl under them at night, shaking with fear that some swarthy guy with a scimitar will slit their throats before dawn.

So that's the woeful state of our high-volume shit-talking patriot wankers these days. Decades of televised poison has turned their brains to Malto Meal, with a level of intellect and awareness to match. Now they're just consumption addicts and fast food hogs; it should be lots of fun watching them collectively jonesing as their money evaporates and their credit lines disappear.

But as always, they'll blame all the wrong things for their misery. It'll be immigrants or gas prices or gay marriage or the librul media or atheism or environmentalist or pinko commie college professors or... And there's always the radical left and the ghost armies of Islamofascists if they run low on scapegoats.

The one thing they'll never do is inform themselves beyond what Rushie told them to think that day. They'll never even hear the phrase "predatory capitalism," much less understand that it's not capable of sustaining itself without practicing thievery on a global scale.

Or how our nobility has such little faith in their own abilities as thieves that they've even had to rig this zero sum game to make sure they win. Which means the other 99 percent has no chance in the long run unless seismic changes take place and the thieves are removed from their positions of power.

Still, ignorance must really be bliss because there seems to be no end of ignorant gullible fools around who will swallow anything as long as it fits on a t-shirt or bumper sticker -- which means it will just barely fit between their ears.

Absent any evidence of domestic outrage with sufficient critical mass to matter, or even a clue as to what's going on all around them, I have to hope that the saner parts of the world decide that it's in their best interests to clean up this shit-hole of a third-world banana republic so that it's fit for human habitation again. I think waiting for the gunslingers to get their trembling hands around their six-shooters might take just a little longer than the short time we have left.

So that's another rant containing no useful suggestions for improving the situation. There's always immediate impeachment and removal of a couple dozen of the worst of the worst, but that's such hard work and so distracting and it would tear the country apart and we don't have the time and we don't have the votes and we need more democrats in congress (meaning dozens of new Nancy clones) and it's all about winning elections and we have to run to the center and...


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