Unfortunately, for Cornehls, he got caught with expressing opinion over fact and got himself 'bitch slapped' (deservedly so) by the outgoing UTA (Interim) President for bending the truth.
Patriot Act Ghost Stories
starring the head boogieman - John Ashcroft.
The phrase "Patriot Act" has become the "Voldemort" of the Left.
By the way, anyone see the dirty hippie episode on King of the Hill last night?
Hillarious - Hank & Bobby scared them off by telling them they would teach them how, through hard work, they could be self reliant.
One hippy used the epithet "Rumsfeld."
Report From The Badlands
kwoods@pinnaclenews.com
Protest: Buy Pickles in Small Jars
Did you know that if President Bush were to visit Hollister or Gilroy or Morgan Hill, and if you were to hold up a sign protesting the Iraq war, you probably would be thrown in jail?
Folks, this Patriot Act thing just gets better and better. I mean, Ashcroft and his ilk have this thing down to a slippery, sloping science. And I predicted its success!
First, they canned our right to a fair and speedy trial, representation by an attorney and due process. Thats not for just foreigners. Its for American citizens, too. And with that edict came the first hit on our privacy: the feds can monitor your e-mails, the library books you check out and eavesdrop on your phone conversations.
But what are Gilroys city council and planning commission excited about? Soon, they will get to buy gallon-sized jars of pickles at the Wal-Mart Superstore. Thats freedom! Thats free enterprise!
(Dear Mr. Bark Flappa: Actually, I think it might be a violation of the Anti-Trust Act, enacted after the turn of the century to ensure fair market enterprise.)
But back to the murder of the First Amendment. My mom Jane tore up her library card. She had carried a card in her purse for 65 years.
Bush and Ashcroft can put this where the sun dont shine, she offered the day they announced the enactment of Patriot Act I.
And here it comes
.a little drum roll, please
Ta-da! Under the guise of protecting America from terrorists, Ashcroft and company now have instructed the Secret Service to instruct local law enforcement in all the cities which Lil Bush visits, to set aside get a load of this free speech zones. The free speech zones are usually several miles away from where Bush is scheduled to speak and blocks away from his motorcade route.
RIMSHOT. Some punchline, huh?
BUT
the same rules do not apply to people carrying signs denigrating the protesters or adulating the President. If you have a sign critical of the Bush monarchy and you step outside of the free speech zone, you get arrested. It happened to a retired steel worker named Bill Neel in Pittsburgh, Penn., who held up a sign saying, The Bush family must surely love the poor, they made so many of us, when Bush paid a visit to the city. Neel didnt go to the designated free speech zone a baseball field surrounded by cyclone fencing so the cops, on orders from the Secret Service, arrested the oldster for disorderly conduct.
Since when are certain areas of this nation the only places where you can exert free speech? Would a real terrorist with dynamite strapped around him be stupid enough to hold up a sign criticizing Bush, before doing a suicide swan dive atop his limo?
Every Friday in Hollister, since just before Bush launched the war on Iraq, the Hollister in Black people have protested in silence on a busy downtown corner. On an opposite corner are the red, white and blue waving pro-war supporters who heckle and chide the silent protesters. Guess who would be thrown in jail for disorderly conduct if Bush were to come into town, and guess who would get to line the route of his motorcade?
I can understand how Karl Rove and all of Lil Bushs puppeteers would want to shield the maroon from those awful people carrying signs with big long words on them that he doesnt understand. But I think the real purpose here is to keep the media from reporting on protesters.
And now Bush wants to change the U.S. Constitution to make sure it never really does guarantee equality for all people regardless of race, creed, color or sex. He wants to amend it to prohibit same sex marriages, essentially turning the Constitution into a tool for discrimination. If anyone standing in the long line to the city clerk-recorders office in San Francisco is reading this, I urge you to do one thing: Eat pickles from small jars. Not pickles from a WalMart Superstore. Wave your small pickle jars in protest of the Bush Era. Juggle pickles while you wait in line. Wave your pickle into the news cameras, and yell, To hell with your fascism, Bush!
Remember, in the words of our great former (Republican) Vice President Dan Quayle, A very positive message. He said that after listening to a sermon in which a Georgia minister condemned homosexuality as satanic. (Newsweek, 11/92). He really said that.
Can anyone help me with a counter attack on this woman who rants like this weekly.
Thanks, all comments are welcome. Of course a few letters to the GAY EDITOR"S of this RAG would help also!!!!
It's hard to take the author seriously when he resorts to such dishonest rhetoric. He knows perfectly well that the politicians in power, not the ordinary cops on the beat, are the people whose motivations are in question.