April 07, 2003

I Always Feel Like Somebody's Watchin' Me

Sooz was peeking at my web stats and found something kind of alarming. I got 2 hits from this URL (don't bother clicking; nothing will load):

http://sseop101.eop.gov/HOMSEC/Watchlists/suspect/view.jsp

Yikes! A little investigation revealed that eop.gov is the Executive Office of the President, and a closer look at the URL reveals the words "Watchlist" and "suspect". I guess my relentless (ahem) sniping at the Administration is raising some eyebrows in DC. I also guess that Osama's been found, terror's been wiped out, and the economy is strong, if someone has time to catalog the web for the 1 trillion non-flattering mentions of Bush and Ashcroft. Well, I always wanted to be noticed...

UPDATE: Sooz let me twist in the wind a bit before fessing up that someone out there with a sick sense of humor has been fudging something to make it look like it's real. But it's not. I guess that means that Osama's still at large, terror's still out there, and the economy's in the crapper. Whew, what a relief! Back to reality.

So instead let's play Word Association. White House...Bush...election fraud...Florida. On Mikhaela's site, there's a link to a Weekly Dig interview with Greg Palast. Palast just wrote The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, and has a lot to say about the disenfranchisement of black voters in Florida. It's pretty sickening. Mikhaela's boyfriend Yves (a buddy of mine) points out, correctly, that this has been buried in the sea of Naderbashing and chad-stupidity perpetrated by Democrats the last three years.

If thousands and thousands of black voters in Florida were pushed aside because (among other injustices) their names kinda sorta looked like the names of convicted criminals, isn't this the biggest story of the decade? Especially since we can probably assume more of them would have voted for Gore? And the last 2 1/2 years would have played out completely differently? Sorry to any Republicans who stumbled on the site searching for "disenfranchisement of black voters", but I'm not ready to get over it. A criminal is always anxious to move the parlor discussion away from the crime. It doesn't mean we should let him.

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