Well don't feel too bad about it. He could have been appointed to something far more important, afterall our new Attorney General Ashcroft, our new Drug Czar John Walters, and our DEA director Asa Hutchinson are about as fascist as serious political figures can get before they join the ranks of Pat Buchanan and company. All 3 believe in forced treatment, and long prison sentences for drug violations and they actually have the nerve to sick their stormtroopers on medical marijuana program operators in california and doctors who help their patients die in Oregon, while we are supposed to be concentrating our law enforcement efforts on stopping perfectly sane but slightly maladjusted terrorists from turning our planes into Kami-Kaze bombs. Its like I have said for a long time, how many murders, rapes, robberies, child molestations, and institutional brainwashing goes on while our police concentrate on preventing sick and dying americans from easing their pain that they must certainly deserve, afterall god made it happen. Its 4am ignore my rantings. Slavish discipline makes a slavish temper... If severity carry'd to the
highest pitch does prevail, and works a cure upon the present unruly
distemper, it often brings in the room of it a worse and more dangerous
disease, by breaking the mind; and then, in the place of a disorderly young
fellow, you have a low spirited moap'd creature, who, however with his
unnatural sobriety he may please silly people, who commend tame unactive
children, because they make no noise, nor give them any trouble; yet at
last, will probably prove as uncomfortable a thing to his friends, as he
will be all his life an useless thing to himself and others... Beating them,
and all other sorts of slavish and corporal punishments, are not the
discipline fit to be used in the education of those we would have wise,
good, and ingenuous men...
John Locke, 1692