[thechat] Fighter plane's laser may blind civilians

[Martin Burns]

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Erika Meyer wrote:

> I deleted the first part of this email, the part where I try to beat
> aardvark's trollometer settings...
>
> ...cause you know I don't want Bush/Ashcroft to come after me, you
> know, a year or so down the road after they have managed to roll back
> civil liberties far enough to begin the purges.  If they can get the
> military on the streets acting like cops, they'll be ready...
> http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/03/15/martial_law/index_np.html
> and I'll have to run away and hide what's left of the wilderness.
> http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/default.asp

I'm sure you could claim asylum in some liberal regime. Just not the UK
(although not being a 'real' foreigner would help).

This is the country, after all, where all asylum seekers are considered
bogus, and where the system has placed Nigeria on the white-list of
countries where no-one can genuinely claim to suffer oppression *cough*Ken
Saro-Wiwa*cough*

Cheers
Martin

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