ALARM CALL

spinning: "generation wrekkked." chuck d.

echoing Jae Young's concern, for those of you who don't read her, please have a look at this:

US Patriot Act, Part Deux (draft)

how can one be made more livid? easily, apparently. as though previous efforts weren't enough, and as though our collective complacency and seeming willingness to roll over and take it right up the arse sans even a nice spitwad to make pretense of lubrication beforehand weren't enough, right?

at the same time, one is left to wonder what one can do; it's difficult to hold out any hope that we as individuals actually have any say in how these things are being run. this has been proven to us time and again, and that's at least part of why i believe we have become even more complacent than we previously were as a nation. what is the point in acting when none of it does any good; these people are obviously going to do whatever they goddamn well please anyway, and fuck the rest of us bloody and sore and raw.

i'd love to say this is unbelievable, but i really can't, in all honesty. it seems only the beginning of the inevitable conclusion.

we are the nation of millions holding ourselves back.

i feel so fucking hopeless right now.