Showing posts with label Freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freedom. Show all posts

Friday, October 24, 2014

Fucking suck on this, NSA!

Welcome to America; kindly check your senses of irony, satire and humour at the border, bitches.

And, oh yes, Americans, be careful what you tweet, since the National Insecurity Administration monitors US social media traffic for 377 words, which will protect der Vaterland, oops, der Homeland.

[It just goes to show that even seemingly innocent descriptors can be taken wholly out of context. Anyone who has been through the U.S. border will know it is wise not to make any smart cracks, witty remarks, or frankly show any emotion for that matter.

It nevertheless serves as a reminder to think very carefully before you tweet.]  (Emphasis added to highlight death and dearth of irony,)
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/think-before-you-tweet-why-two-teenagers-were-refused-entry-to-the-u-s/2802

Go cornficker yourself, NSA, sod off!

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Freedom Riders: May 1961

[She was a senior at Tennessee A&I State University when the first Freedom Ride — planned to fight for the right of African Americans to travel across state lines on trains and buses while using the same seats, bathrooms, water fountains and other facilities as whites — was knocked off course in May 1961 by a wave of brutal violence in Alabama, her home state.

She and other Nashville college students — veterans of the sit-in movement to desegregate downtown lunch counters a year earlier — decided there was too much at stake and they had to keep the Freedom Rides alive. So the students made plans to travel from Nashville to Birmingham, Ala., on a Greyhound bus May 17.

Also at stake that spring day were the young riders' lives.

"I didn't want to die, now," Burks-Brooks, 71, recalled, "but I didn't have any fear of doing what I had to do. I knew what was happening was wrong. And I had an opportunity to do something about it."]
http://www.usatoday.com/NEWS/usaedition/2011-05-06-freedomriders_ST_U.htm