Today I imagined I was some important government official being questioned by reporters. The exchange went something like this…
Reporter: Sina, do you have a response to Col Qaddafi proclamation that he will stay in Libya until the end or die a martyr.
Sina: Well then I guess he will die.
It would be sooooo good.
I’m giddy with excitement! Like Tunisia, a tyrant has fallen in Egypt and hopefully this will lead to a free democratic society for Egyptian people.
Algeria, Yemen, Iran and Jordan have seen similar recent protests and — not to get ahead of myself — 2011 may truly be a turning point.
During the demonstrations in Egypt and Tunisia I refrained myself from getting overly excited and making predictions of freedom until the tyrants were actually deposed.
Why? Because last time I totally jinxed it.
But anyway, a warning to oppressors around the world (see: China): freedom always wins, time is against you.
What’s going on in Britain? Every day it’s something new, and it just gets creepier and creepier. This week’s crazy new episode? Police get to stop and search citizens based on race.
Wait, what?
But I guess this isn’t too suprising. Afterall, the UK doesn’t even have a constitutionally protected bill of rights.
Still don’t believe the police ever abuse their powers?
Ont. judge slams Ottawa police strip search
[Justice Richard] Lajoie ruled that while the accused had been drinking when she was arrested, there was “no evidence that Ms Bonds was a threat to herself or anyone else” and so there was no grounds to detain her.
Bonds’s detention and subsequent strip-search was a “clear violation” of her rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Lajoie ruled.
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Lajoie said the video shows Bonds — who is “not being one hundred per cent compliant” — receive “two extremely violent knee hits in the back.”
Bonds is then forced to the ground, where a police officer cuts off her shirt and bra with scissors “with the assistance of at least three male officers,” Lajoie said.
There was “no reasonable explanation” for the strip-search, Lajoie said. “It is more than evident that the search at 474 Elgin [Street] was an extremely serious breach of Ms. Bonds’ rights.”
Where is the outrage? Come on, everyone!
Of course there’s an internal police investigation going on now, but who is that really accountable to? Does anyone still not think there needs to be some oversight that is independent of the police force? To protect both the public as well as the honourably serving police officers that don’t do this kind of stuff but end up getting painted with the same brush anyway.
UPDATE: And here’s the video.
With the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, Iceland will be to freedom what Switzerland is to banks.
I love it. Thank god for Iceland.
So I bought a Nexus One yesterday. I already named it Locke after the father of modern liberty. It’s also a play on the fact that the phone comes completely unlocked. Get it? Get it?!
I got it engraved too. Here’s an artist’s depiction:
It should arrive tomorrow after which I hope to be connected as a free agent to the Wind network within hours.
Via America’s finest news source: “In short, freedom of speech means the freedom of fucking speech, you ignorant cocksuckers.”
Amen.