I am going to destroy America. No, totally, for srs

[Juana]

Yep, I remember that. That was...2006, I think? I recall being appalled.

I know several Canadians who can't enter the USA because of DUIs.

Plunder a bank, though, and you're good as gold.

Good lord. You'd think they have better things to do than worry about nonsense like that.

[Scribbly]

Yeeeeeeeah.

At the same time we're extraditing our own citizens over to the US to face criminal charges for actions which are not crimes in the UK.

Good thing we're great friends and allies, right? 

Well, if you don't, we'll just kidnap them off of your streets.  We've said as much, openly.

Friends and allies.  Remember that.  Not vassals or anything.  No, really, we believe in equality and the rule of law.  Our law.

And in court no less!

I really wish the judge had the balls to arrest the spokesman for contempt of court. Its hard to imagine a statement which shows more contempt for our judicial system.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Good lord. You'd think they have better things to do than worry about nonsense like that.

Of course they do.  But they won't, because they are busy showing Joe Sixpack/Joe Sweatervest just exactly who has the great big dick around here.



Not because it helps security, not because of some moral standard...But because they CAN, because WE PAY THEM TO DO IT.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Yeeeeeeeah.

At the same time we're extraditing our own citizens over to the US to face criminal charges for actions which are not crimes in the UK.

Good thing we're great friends and allies, right? 

Well, if you don't, we'll just kidnap them off of your streets.  We've said as much, openly.

Friends and allies.  Remember that.  Not vassals or anything.  No, really, we believe in equality and the rule of law.  Our law.

And in court no less!

I really wish the judge had the balls to arrest the spokesman for contempt of court. Its hard to imagine a statement which shows more contempt for our judicial system.

Dunno, I can imagine quite a bit ...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Yeeeeeeeah.

At the same time we're extraditing our own citizens over to the US to face criminal charges for actions which are not crimes in the UK.

Good thing we're great friends and allies, right? 

Well, if you don't, we'll just kidnap them off of your streets.  We've said as much, openly.

Friends and allies.  Remember that.  Not vassals or anything.  No, really, we believe in equality and the rule of law.  Our law.

And in court no less!

I really wish the judge had the balls to arrest the spokesman for contempt of court. Its hard to imagine a statement which shows more contempt for our judicial system.

If the judge had any stones at all, he'd have had the guards see that the man fell down a few times on the way to the cell.

[LMNO]

I know this is going to sound naive and silly, but I'm still trying to figure out what prompted the DHS to look at his tweets in the first place?  CARNIVORE?

(Hey, anyone still have that massive text file of red-flag words?)

You're ignoring a far more hideous possibility, LMNO.

What if there's tens of thousands of fatass people who sit around the internet all day, "helping out" by reporting every unpatriotic thing they see on the internet?

You bastard.

[Juana]

Good lord. You'd think they have better things to do than worry about nonsense like that.

Of course they do.  But they won't, because they are busy showing Joe Sixpack/Joe Sweatervest just exactly who has the great big dick around here.



Not because it helps security, not because of some moral standard...But because they CAN, because WE PAY THEM TO DO IT.

Did we ever settled on a mirth-barf icon? I don't remember, but I think it's an appropriate sentiment here. Ugh.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I know this is going to sound naive and silly, but I'm still trying to figure out what prompted the DHS to look at his tweets in the first place?  CARNIVORE?

(Hey, anyone still have that massive text file of red-flag words?)

You're ignoring a far more hideous possibility, LMNO.

What if there's tens of thousands of fatass people who sit around the internet all day, "helping out" by reporting every unpatriotic thing they see on the internet?

You bastard.

Again, it is not the purpose of the Holy Man™ to shield you from the Horrible Truth™.

You KNOW there's people like that.  Thousands of them.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Good lord. You'd think they have better things to do than worry about nonsense like that.

Of course they do.  But they won't, because they are busy showing Joe Sixpack/Joe Sweatervest just exactly who has the great big dick around here.



Not because it helps security, not because of some moral standard...But because they CAN, because WE PAY THEM TO DO IT.

Did we ever settled on a mirth-barf icon? I don't remember, but I think it's an appropriate sentiment here. Ugh.

Mirth?

Was there a joke in there somewhere?  Because I must have missed it.

[Scribbly]

I remember seeing tons of people threatening to report commentators to the FBI/CIA for posting up threats to celebrities/politicians.

The fact that this is now a good way of making sure you can't go on vacation in the US... 

[Juana]

Good lord. You'd think they have better things to do than worry about nonsense like that.

Of course they do.  But they won't, because they are busy showing Joe Sixpack/Joe Sweatervest just exactly who has the great big dick around here.



Not because it helps security, not because of some moral standard...But because they CAN, because WE PAY THEM TO DO IT.

Did we ever settled on a mirth-barf icon? I don't remember, but I think it's an appropriate sentiment here. Ugh.

Mirth?

Was there a joke in there somewhere?  Because I must have missed it.

Poorly phrased on my part. It's funny in a horrormirthy kind of way, but also makes me feel a little bit ill.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Poorly phrased on my part. It's funny in a horrormirthy kind of way, but also makes me feel a little bit ill.

I know the US government.  I've been inside The Beast, and I can tell you that HUGE CONSPIRACIES aren't their style.  They're more of a "bottom up" kind of tyranny, as any trip to the department of motor vehicles will prove.   So when the US government wants to put the arm on its citizenry - and any foreigners that they trip across - they simply remove the muzzle.  When they REALLY want to fuck with people, they actively encourage it.

And for everyone who says "That's FUCKED UP!", there's 3 po'buckers hollering for more.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Power is a drug and you only need the tiniest little sniff to get all tweaky and addicted

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Power is a drug and you only need the tiniest little sniff to get all tweaky and addicted

Interestingly enough, the less power you actually have, the bigger the abuses you make with that power, at least proportionally speaking.

A cop can fuck you over 10 times worse than the mayor can, for example.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

America is like some crazy biker, angrily driving his hog through your front door because some drug deal he made went sour...but he's dyslexic and inverted the address numbers, so the guy he intended to kill is 20 blocks away.  Whoopsie! Well, you're here, so you'll just have to do.