[Paul Atreides]

We seem to have a bunch of Tokyo Roses going to foreign lands, preaching that their rights of free speech are being curtailed. I think they want to give people outside of the U.S. the idea that America is becoming a facist state. They all seem to be stressing that they have to go to foreign sources to trash the country.

[Darlin']

FOFLOL. Have you also noticed that a large number of those who have done that are getting just a little bit loooooong in the tooth ? Perhaps the only way they can still manage to draw a crowd is by joining the Hate America crowd. Isn't it odd that they don't hate America as long as their career is moving along and they're still considered a winner at the Box Office.

[weegee]

She should check out her right to freedom of speech in every country. Take a whirlwind tour. But add some spice to it. Telling this to an audience that doesn't like President Bush isn't really a dare.

Instead, whatever country you are in, start criticizing their government for human rights abuses. Ask how long their leader has been beating his wife. Tell them that the god they worship is false and that the real God is dead too; sell them on the science fiction alien story that is Scientology.

Commission an artist to portray their leaders seated at a table dining on feces. Ask to have an exhibit in their finest museum. Tell them to stop getting so hung up over dead white European males.

Parade through Saudi Arabia showing off the latest in thong fashionwear. When they cite you for indecency, cry out about the "indecencies" of the way women are treated, persons of non-muslim faiths are treated, children are treated, etc.

To do any of these actions would bring about shouts of "the Ugly American" and yet we have plenty of people in our own country who do just this. What's more, we have Eurotrash who come over here to complain about our government.

I think that secretly these countries are embarassed that they still stand in awe of monarchies; their secret shame.