Live Free or Uh, Whatever

Last week, three Denver residents were forcibly removed from a town meeting on Social Security hosted by the Shrub.

Did they disrupt the proceedings to protest the Shrub’s new Social Security reform proposal? No.

Did they throw a pie in his face? They should have, but didn’t.

They were forcibly removed because they arrived at the event in a car that displayed a bumper sticker that said ‘No More Blood for Oil.’

Meanwhile, on the same day in the supposedly free Iraq, Dhari Fayad, who was presiding over Iraq’s newly-elected National Assembly, instructed the media to leave the chamber so that the members could meet in secret session to choose a new speaker and fill other key assembly positions.

Well, I guess we can say we don't torture people. Shit, I forgot about Abu Grab.

Well, we don't hold people against their will. Shit, I forgot about Guantanamo Bay.

Okay, we have free and fair elections. God damn it, I forgot about the 2000 election.

Wait. As Americans, we never have to worry about our privacy being invaded. Fuck, I forgot about the Patriot Act.

With democracy like this, who needs brutal regimes?