Viraj's Weblog

Amy Goodman, one of the few journalists out there doing real news coverage, was arrested at the RNC. This is on the heels of the police's pre-emptive raids of peaceful protesters in their homes. It's really a sad day when Americans are arrested for discussing non-violent civil disobedience. Are we living in communist China? It's absolutely idiotic to try to curtail dissidents in a supposedly free society. Without such people disagreeing, nothing ever changes, and it is the freedom to protest that makes this a great country. I'm reminded more and more of 1984, where one day you won't even be able to think subversive thoughts without getting your door knocked down.

Why do we accept these attacks on civil liberties? It's almost as if people don't really care about this until it happens to them. I sometimes feel us Americans are like the frog in the water which is slowly rising temperature. Take everything away at once, and we notice. But slowly erode away our freedoms, or slowly raise our cost of living until we can't live, and we go to our grave without ever noticing.