I think that the interesting thing about your comments is that yours are based in raeality while most of mine were based entirely in fiction.

And you brought up an important question that I don’t think I have the answer to (yet). How do we fight something that seems impossible to fight? Do we — and most of us seem to — just sit there and let it happen? That’s not what I want to do any more. I’m inclined to simply fill this blog with political rants, but I don’t really think that’s a solution.

Kiss.

Perhaps what I should have written about is figuring out how to fight back when you know that something is wrong. And by that I mean doing something other than writing an oblique critique of American/British politics poorly disguised as a film/book review.

But that’s the thing, I don’t know what else to do. I make the excuse that I’m in a strange situation, living in one country and being a citizen of another. Everyone has an excuse, I guess. Mine’s not a very good one.

Anyone have any ideas?

Recently, “This American Life” from Chicago Public Radio had a terrifying show about the “prisoners” in Gitmo. If you get a chance, you should download it and give it a listen. I think the episode was called “Habeas Shamabeas”.

Here in the states, the current administration is using fear as a tactic to undermine “American exceptionalism” (though that was probably bullshit from the start), but there is something else at work also. Most people don’t fucking know what’s going on, and it’s happening in plain sight.

Then again, once you figure out what’s going on, the hard part is determining what you can do to help. Write you congress member or senator? Give money to the lawyer’s defending these guys? Join a anti-war protest? It’s that feeling of helplessness that usually ends with people just accepting the way things are when you’re exacting pain on others. Is this even relevant to your discussion?

If you get a chance to see the film, I’d be interested to hear what you think about it.