Saturday, June 16, 2007

Civil rights, schmivil rights

Man, there's so many people having a hard time.

In addition to the people at Guantanamo who deserve a trial because they're humans, it turns out the FBI is spying on all of us, so we can be next. (You know, if the people at Gitmo are tried and found guilty of terrorism, lock them up and dissolve the key in my stomach acid. But you can't put people in prison because the President says so, without checks AND balances.)

And a judge ruled that RAM is a document that needs storing. But that's a dumb ruling like the substitute teacher who got linkjacked. Both of those rulings will be thrown out when the defendants get better lawyers and are heard on appeal by smarter judges.

But my favorite outrage of the day is a guy who was arrested for holding a sign advocating equal rights for robots. There was a big anti-gay rally at a college, which was matched in its hateful, spittle-flinging irrational frenzy by a pro-gay rally. One guy, thinking, you all are crazy, held up a sign. It said "Equal Rights for Robots". He got arrested. It seems like the most obvious case of free speech imaginable, particularly given the circumstances of lots of other people right next to him exercising their rights in a very active manner. Man. Not Cool.

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