I'll be watching! I'm still in thrall to a magnificent rant in
Teeing Off last season, the text of which follows:
Freedom is under attack. Under attack by hysterical and well funded Christian psychotics, intellectually undernourished leaders who lie and manipulate information, overfed Baby Huey coward bitch motherfuckers like Karl Rove and their suck up weakling apologists like Sean Hannity. To question authority is to be somehow unpatriotic, unAmerican and in league with terrorists worldwide?
Fuck you.
With even election results becoming more and more questionable, The Constitution a thing to be manipulated, ignored and frivolously amended, even Democracy itself seems to be on the run.
Where's one place you can go and tell your version of the truth, rail against liars, fakes and propagandists with your own unique propaganda, sign your name to it and let the world know how you feel? That's right, the internet. Perhaps responsible for the most substantial shifts in culture in the last several decades. There is so much freedom and potential on the World Wide Web that one is barely able to get one's head around it.
Who in their right mind would to dare to regulate or charge websites to be on the internet? Who would dare to rain on a parade so fantastic that many of us wouldn't know what to do without our high-speed connection and our lives on the internet?
Actually some very powerful forces. Telco companies want to make you pay for your site to be carried on the internet. If you can't afford to pay, guess what? That's right--you're cyber history pal. The Bush Administration wants major internet and phone companies to keep track of where their customers surf, all in the name of the War On Terror don't ya know. How much do you want to bet they want the internet regulated, contained and thrown into a cell in Guantanamo Bay?
For a country that talks so much about freedom being on the march, seems to me that some people want anything but. If they come for your freedom you must not only resist, you must strike back with a vengeance that will stun them. On this front, if your anger and outrage are not at the forefront then you're already dead. Dead to me, anyway. Fuck these cowards, these traitors, these enemies of Democracy.
Never relent.
-- Henry Rollins
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