this one's for the right to petition

"I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today."
--Glenn Beck, Syndicated Radio Host, CNN Journalist and ABC Affiliate

Stay away from Oceanside, CA and particularly away from Camp Pendleton, Glenn. It could get ugly.

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They put it better than I could:

Editorial in The Economist, September 20 2007

When liberals put the case for civil liberties, they sometimes claim that obnoxious measures do not help the fight against terrorism anyway. The Economist is liberal but disagrees. We accept that letting secret policemen spy on citizens, detain them without trial and use torture to extract information makes it easier to foil terrorist plots. To eschew such tools is to fight terrorism with one hand tied behind your back. But that—with one hand tied behind their back—is precisely how democracies ought to fight terrorism.

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Human rights are part of what it means to be civilised. Locking up suspected terrorists—and why not potential murderers, rapists and paedophiles, too?—before they commit crimes would probably make society safer. Dozens of plots may have been foiled and thousands of lives saved as a result of some of the unsavoury practices now being employed in the name of fighting terrorism. Dropping such practices in order to preserve freedom may cost many lives. So be it.

I live in Newport Beach, California. As you may have gathered from the TV, some of my neighbors have way more money than anyone should. When you're this loaded, you run out of useful and attractive things to do after a while, and it's important that you then do something totally idiotic and wasteful so that the rest of the world hates your guts.

That's why the good people at the Fairmont resort are ready to give you a $350 24 Karat Gold Facial.

Yeah, I know. I think something about having tens of millions of dollars makes a person lose the Irony Organ.