Sunday, March 02, 2003

Well, that was nifty - I'm watching the pilot of Boomtown, which they've been showing on Bravo today, and there's a sequence with a cop chasing a suspect on foot. There's some techno music playing, and I know I recognize it from *somewhere*, but where? It hits me - Run Lola Run. Niiice. I appreciate that...there's something inherently cool about a show that thinks to reference Run Lola Run. Well, I think so - I love me that movie.

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Something that's been bothering me: under Patriot II (officially the Domestic Security Enhancement Act, but hey...), the government has the right to take away my citizenship if I'm associated with a terrorist group. That bothers me on plenty of levels in and of itself - it seems like an out-and-out violation of our constitutional rights as American citizens, which is...well, nauseating. But that's not all - how do we know what groups are terrorist? I mean, yeah, I know about Al Qaeda, Hizbullah, ETA, the various and sundry IRAs (though I don't think the Provos have been designated as such by the State Department - they'd have to arrest the entire population of Boston) but there's a lot more...how many of these are on the lists? How many other organizations that aren't there are on the list? How about domestic terrorists...? Oh, wait - if I remember correctly, the law only applies to foreign terrorist organizations, thereby protecting Ashcroft's buddies in the anti-abortion terrorist group Army of God. But still - how am I supposed to know what groups are actually on the list? ...ok, I think I found it here on the State Dept's website - but I know this is out-of-date, since we just recently designated a couple Chechen groups last week - part of buying off the Russians for Iraq. Now I'm going to try to find an example of a "terrorist" organization in operation today that's NOT on the list - one that we tacitly support...

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