Scary Stuff

And the concept of irony bulldozes its way back onto my blog. Take a look at this article from Salon.com, titled "Keeping dissent invisible". The teaser reads, "How the Secret Service and the White House keep protesters safely out of Bush's sight -- and off TV." Click here to read the story.

According to the report, the Secret Service will force protestors into "Free Speech Zones" whenever President Bush is visiting a city. The irony being that these "Free Speech Zones" are behind chain-linked fences, well out of sight of the President's motorcade and, more importantly, the TV cameras. So I guess that means what the news cameras capture and Bush sees must be the "Speech Free Zone." This sounds like soemthing out of a Vonnegut novel, or 1984.

I hope this story gets legs and makes into the national media, but I'm not holding my breath. As my kindergarten teacher used to always say, "Hope in one hand and shit in the other. See which hand fills up faster."