Things that caught my eye today...
Nov. 15th, 2004 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsIn the wake of Theo van Gogh's murdeer, Piet-Hein Donner, the minister of Justice in Holland, is looking to reinstate a nation-wide "ban on religious insults." This is apparently an attempt to prevent more murders by religious fanatics by, basically, not encouraging them in the first place.
Afshin Elian, an Iranian refugee, has condemned the move. "What Mr. Donner has said is that the fundamentalists have a point when they kill people. Donner should have said: keep your hands off our freedom to express ourselves. Terrorists, and not writers, should be afraid of the minister of justice." Right on.
Bwahahaha. Long after every possible book on the subject has been written, members of the Golden Dawn, just like members of the Masons, continue to swear absurd blood oaths about not revealing already public secrets to the outside world. The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn rightly calls this humbug and promises to improve magick™ the way programmers improved code: by letting the public debug it.
Purge. It's an ugly word, in a political context. It means to get rid of your enemies. Does this mean that Bush has an enemies list, like Nixon?
Apparently, the citizens of North Korea are not as passive as we've been told to believe. There have been coup attempts, industrial and military uprisings, and assassination attempts. Let's hope that, when the moment comes, that it doesn't come with nuclear weapons.
Afshin Elian, an Iranian refugee, has condemned the move. "What Mr. Donner has said is that the fundamentalists have a point when they kill people. Donner should have said: keep your hands off our freedom to express ourselves. Terrorists, and not writers, should be afraid of the minister of justice." Right on.
Bwahahaha. Long after every possible book on the subject has been written, members of the Golden Dawn, just like members of the Masons, continue to swear absurd blood oaths about not revealing already public secrets to the outside world. The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn rightly calls this humbug and promises to improve magick™ the way programmers improved code: by letting the public debug it.
Purge. It's an ugly word, in a political context. It means to get rid of your enemies. Does this mean that Bush has an enemies list, like Nixon?
Apparently, the citizens of North Korea are not as passive as we've been told to believe. There have been coup attempts, industrial and military uprisings, and assassination attempts. Let's hope that, when the moment comes, that it doesn't come with nuclear weapons.
