Michael Moore asks Bush

Some interesting points from Michael Moore over at the Guardian.

Aside from the observation that just about every Amendment can be discarded in the interests of catching terrorists except the right to bear arms, I particularly liked this obervation.

Osama bin Laden has assets totalling at least $30m; he is a multi-millionaire. So why isn't that the way we see this person, as a rich fuck who kills people? Why didn't that become the reason for profiling potential terrorists? Instead of rounding up suspicious Arabs, why don't we say, "Oh my God, a multi-millionaire killed 3,000 people! Round up the multi-millionaires! Throw them all in jail! No charges! No trials! Deport the millionaires!!"

Aesop:

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

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[Bill Harvey]

Or your mother's favourite:

The fault is great in man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common;
But what can plead that man's excuse
Who steals a common from a goose?

The Tickler Magazine 1 Feb 1821 When the rich were using acts of parliament to enclose common land and (miss)appropriate it for their own use.

Actually Sue's version is slightly deifferent and more pointed. I will wake her and ask her!

[Bill Harvey]

Got it!

The law arrests the man or woman
who steals the goose from off the common;
But lets the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from the goose.