Mr. Bush, You Can Stop Protecting Me Now

[jasmeel]

by SusanG

Bush Says Gitmo Is 'Necessary'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 2006

(CBS/AP) At a joint White House news conference, President Bush rejected a plea by German Chancellor Angela Merkel that
the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be shut down. He called the four-year-old camp "a necessary part of
protecting the American people."

Mr. Bush, I've decided the price is too high for my conscience. If Gitmo - and the torture and denial of due process accompanying it - is a necessary part of protecting me, I hereby officially release you from the obligation. I'm opting out of this protection racket you've set up. Think of me as just one less tile on the human shield you've created, using the safety and fear of American citizens to hide behind while you seize more power.

After years of soul-searching, I've decided to take my chances in a risky and unpredictable world - one from which your administration can't fully insulate me anyway, even with the best of intentions - than to live my life duct-taped and "safe" in a wire-tapped American closet where I'm not free to tell you I think you're a nincompoop and a danger to humankind.

Besides, I've seen New Orleans on TV. Color me unimpressed with your ability to protect me while you strip away my rights. Even if I were willing to cower and cringe and hurl my notorious "freedoms" in your lap willynilly, you'd hardly be the "protector" first on my speed dial. (Don't believe me? Check out my calls in the bloated vacuum bag attached to your illegal NSA operations.)
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Can we really opt out? That would be great!!!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/14/14711/6701

[neweurope]

1. Recommended

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Opt me out

Bush is protecting the US like the captain of the Titanic protected his passengers.

[flordehinojos]

3. oh, yes please opt me out too. i don't want you to protect me. PLEASE!

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[Canuckistanian]

4. Daddy, you're a failure.

You can't protect me and Mom and I think you're a drunk as well. And your friends are destoying our family.

You'd better leave now.

[flyarm]

5. OPT ME OUT TOO! N/T

[postulater]

6. Me too

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!"

Who said that?

[bonemachine]

7. Well

It's been credited to a number of folks, including Tom Waits, though I doubt he was the first.

[bonemachine]

8. delete

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