http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2007/10/19/if-chris-dodd-puts-a-hold-on-the-telecom-immunity-bill-and-everyone-ignores-it-did-it-really-happen/ Bill Wolfrum's world of news, satire and commentary Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:59:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2007/10/19/if-chris-dodd-puts-a-hold-on-the-telecom-immunity-bill-and-everyone-ignores-it-did-it-really-happen/comment-page-1/#comment-60723 William K. Wolfrum » Blog Archive » Fuck apologies Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:36:02 +0000 http://www.williamkwolfrum.com/2007/10/19/if-chris-dodd-puts-a-hold-on-the-telecom-immunity-bill-and-everyone-ignores-it-did-it-really-happen/#comment-60723 [...] Today was one of those days that these issues, these truths, struck me hard and left me feeling sad and powerless. We are a nation at the tipping point. A nation where the economy, the constitution, freedom and its very existence are hanging in the balance. We are a nation that scoffs at international law, implements torture, unleashes armies of mercenaries, spies on its own citizens, takes away health insurance from its own children while mocking them, and a whole boatload of other atrocities and scandals that would make the Founding Fathers wonder why they went to all the trouble. [...] [...] Today was one of those days that these issues, these truths, struck me hard and left me feeling sad and powerless. We are a nation at the tipping point. A nation where the economy, the constitution, freedom and its very existence are hanging in the balance. We are a nation that scoffs at international law, implements torture, unleashes armies of mercenaries, spies on its own citizens, takes away health insurance from its own children while mocking them, and a whole boatload of other atrocities and scandals that would make the Founding Fathers wonder why they went to all the trouble. [...]

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