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May 28, 2006
Mommy I'm Scared
Something terrifying is happening in our country. Well, two somethings.
The first is our federal government is spying on tens of millions of Americans illegally, monitoring our phone calls and lord knows what else.
The second: Scott Stantis wrote and drew a pretty good comic this morning.
After the mess that was yesterday's scribble-thon, today we get the best drawn Winslow - maybe ever. There's the creepy W operative on a classic telephone pole, and even a nifty reel-to-reel tape recorder. The dude got it right, even how the NSA spying scandal has worked for the administration since they started doing it.
Of course there are more than just two terrifying things. Our President thinks it's fine and dandy to arrest and imprison people without charging them with anything - ever. Torturing them is a-okay by him too, and why not ship them off to secret prisons in Europe to do it? He's cutting taxes for the rich when the poverty levels have gone up every year since he took over. Osama's still at large, and terrorist attacks have skyrocketed around the world. Oh, there are those little things known as Afghanistan and Iraq.
And that's just off the top of my head.
The NSA spy scandal is hopefully one of the issues that will piss off Americans regardless of political affiliation. For the folks that say, "Hey they're not listening in, and if it helps catch terrorists I'm all for it" - first off, they're not getting a warrant for all of this, so there's no way of knowing just what the hell they're doing with this information. Secondly, do you honestly trust W to simply stop at "monitoring?" Back in December they were simply monitoring calls from "known members of Al Qaeda overseas calling the US," now it's "EVERYBODY."
I think it's time for a Ben Franklin quote:
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Comments
Okay, is it just me, or do "Prickly City" strips that tends to be decent happens to be a Sunday strip?
Other decent strips you pointed out in the past were Sundays.
Just though I ask.
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at May 28, 2006 10:48 AM
