Exit - There's a small

Exit - There's a small undercurrent of paranoid lefties that thinks it's time to get out of the US - that there's someplace out there free from the ravages of John Ashcroft. This article in the San Antonio Current - San Antonio's City Pages, I think - showcases some of it. Note the paranoia...:

It's the not-so-rich whose fates are increasingly constrained by a government that has ratcheted sharply to the fanatical right.

The new thought police don't like anyone to criticize the government; they don't like gays; they don't like the arts; they don't like Muslims; they don't even like Halloween. They control the textbooks in Texas where, by law, history and social studies courses must teach capitalism as the only viable economic system. They control the public discourse, in which local television broadcasters laugh at the Libertarian candidate for opposing the death penalty (yes, that actually happened on election night). And now they control the House, the Senate, the Executive Office — and by extension the judiciary.

...juxtaposed with the triviality with which the subjects of this article address the issue:

So what's a citizen to do? “Prague,” my friend reiterates. I take a bite of the sourdough bread and nod. The best reason I can think of to stay is lunch at the Liberty Bar.

Hm. Maybe if we dropped sourdough bread on Pakistan, Al Quaeda'd capitulate.

Posted by Mitch at November 25, 2002 12:49 AM