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Tuesday, March 4

the patriot act....

since the suicide bombing in Israel started

since "911"

i've been feeling completely confused about who i am politically

my life used to be simple
i was a liberal democrat
the end

but then the liberal democrats started bashing israel
and the uptight right wing republicans started defending it

then the liberal democrats were asking me to march in anti-war protests
and the republicans were calling saddam hussein a dictator who has to go

on the one hand
i hate bush
not only has he got to be the president with the lowest IQ in history
but he's also got hidden agenda stamped all over his chimpanzee face

on the other hand...what would have happened if gore won (well if he won and they let him be president, i mean he did win) the election

would he have walked over to the taliban and offered them some tofu
and said things like "please don't hurt us...let's all meditate together.."

i mean when it was time to take out the taliban i felt glad to have a war monger in the white house...this was a time for cowboys

and when arafat started his bullshit...i like that bush told him to shut the fuck up

but the thing that's starting to scare me
is this patriot act stuff

because "sleepers" amongst us...hijacked some planes and tore away our hearts our virginity and our sense of security...now this government is trying to take away our privacy too

maybe it comes from reading "1984" in my formative years, but that scares the shit out of me

yes...detain terrorists...detain them till hell freezes over...
but don't check up on what books i buy on amazon.com or take out from the library
don't read my emails
don't come into my home without just cause and not even tell me you were there

i don't know where the fine line is between protecting us from terror
and taking us back to the communist witch hunt days
but i hope someone finds it

it's scary

a gal at the gym told me about "the new york city bill of rights defense campaign"
a group of folks trying to stop the patriot act from taking over one city at a time
this city new york city, the greatest city in the universe

i'm torn about a lot of things in this war
but here's what i'm not torn about
i am an american
and have certain un-alliable rights
and i don't want them taken away because a group of motherfucking cowards
killed 3,000 people

i don't know what the answers are here
but i do know there has to be some kind of happy medium

defend me from terrorists
but don't take away my basic freedoms to do so

i guess...i should assume that it's possible that someone in the government is reading this right now and starting a file on me

if so... remember to get it right

i'm a downtown new york city bitch

and 100% all american girl

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