More heart warming tales from the deep south

2 Jun 2004

Thanks again to Neil for the link. This news story reports of how a school principle decided he didn’t want any anti-war material in the school, in a completely barking crushing of free speech and firing of staff. Clearly, like most places, America has it’s share of nutters. Just in most places the aim is not to give them a) power over the minds of children and b) leadership of the country.

Blair may be a bit barking (ignoring millions of demonstators to take us into a war we didn’t particularly want), but I don’t think he’s in the same wing on the institute as dubya.

Actually, there was an amusing entry in the diary in the Guardian yesterday (I can’t say I’m a regular Guardian reader, I find it’s moral stance a bit wearing after a while, but it was the best paper avaiable in Savino’s yesterday). The diarist was concerned that the American constitution said that no president of the USA can be elected for more than two terms; this left the doors wide open for a third term of Dubya as clearly he’d not been elected the first time! Scary stuff I think you’ll agree. Thankfully it turns out that it is just the terms that count, and not the elections (to cover the case of a vice president stepping in for the majority of a term). Phew!

Link: http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Opinion/Editorials/03OpOPN62051504.htm