Yet another blah day. My ploy, voting for the least popular repiglican gubanatorial candidate, didn't work. Seems that he was to liberal for my fellow repiglicans, and the most conservative a-hole of them all was elected to go to the general election. I predict that we will elect a democrapic governor, the current female insurance commissioner Kathy Sebelius. Or Catherine. Whatever. Y'know, for someone who's got such strong feelings about politics, I really don't care much about who gets elected to what. Does that make me an apathist? Of course it does. Because I think that they're all crooks, the ones in office are probably crookeder than the ones not in office at the present time. Once they get elected, they are all tainted in time. Heh. Tainted in Time. Makes me think of a line of suits slowly walking along in time to a slow bass drum, people with taint brushes on either side of them, tainting away until the suits are nothing but a pile of taint slithering along. And, of course, all money is tainted. Well, 'taint mine, anyways. OK, no more old jokes. Not 'tik tomorrow, anyhoo. The war on terrorism, the war on drugs... justification for civil rights abuses. Not just by this current administration either, but by the last four. The war on drugs... the government can, simply on suspicion, seize anything they believe is connected with drugs. Anything, belonging to anybody. No, they don't have to prove anything, and no, there is no appeal. And now, besides seizure of property, they can seize people who they think might have something to do with terrorism. No, they don't have to prove anything, and no, there is no appeal, no right to see a lawyer, no phone call. And absolutely no checks on potential abuse of this power, none at all. So, if they decide that they don't like what I've been writing here, all they have to do is come and get me. Seize my house, my computers, throw my wife out on the street, seize our bank accounts.... Yeah, it scares me. I keep thinking that maybe I should be more careful what I write here, heh. I hate thinking that I'm paranoid. It makes me feel that it's my problem, and not the government. One more day until Friday.