It’s happening, folks. Jesus christ, it’s really happening. Neo-McCarthyist, 1984-esq, big brother MIB’s lurking at the edges of our lives. Just waiting for an impropriety to occur.

I. Am. Frightened.

I and people like me could very well get blackballed in the near future. I suppose I’m a lot of pretty disreputable things right now. I’m liberal, libertarian, pagan, pro-peace, and intellectual. I think spewing foul epithets about Ramadan only exposes the paucity of learning in the average American mind. I think just because we’ve pushed the SMITE button and turned a foreign country into rubble in no way makes us better, brings back a single dead soul, or fixes a single problem in the world.

Artists, intellectuals, and protesters were the first ones they came after in the 50’s. Is it happening again? Should I thank TBTB that I haven’t gotten a visit yet? Should I expect one? Should I laugh it all off and just try to go on with my life, trying to keep my head above the ocean of governmental yes-men, every one of whom clamors louder than the one before to support the president and his decisions. Every one of whom struggles to fly the flag just a little more obviously.

Maybe military action was the only way. But we’ll never really know, will we?

But it’s not war folks. That takes an act of congress. This is the president doing his thing.

Hmmm…. and I *still* don’t buy into the whole “go about your lives as if nothing is wrong or *they* win”, “buy lots of stuff to strengthen the economy or *they* win” mentality. The only way to defeat terrorists involves me being broke and in denial? I don’t get it.

Has anyone wondered if this “war on terrorism” will do as well as the “war on drugs”?