Gallows humor for the condemned

[allthumbs]

I remember when Americans first started getting news media reporting from inside the Soviet Union.

 

There was one report that I will never forget. It was a 'man on the street' interview, and the news crew was asking several gentlemen some questions when a Russian militiaman came up and demanded the men stop answering questions and also demanded their identification papers.

 

They laughed at him. They told him to get lost. He continued to make demands of them and one of them just punched him in the face and laughed again and continued answering the reporter's questions.

 

The reporter asked them why they were not afraid of the militiaman and they said he didn't know who they were and that they would keep it that way. As long as they refused to identify themselves there was nothing he can do.

 

Today we have made it an arrestable offense to refuse to identify ourselves in the U.S. America is on the wrong path in my opinion.

 

 

 

 

[catbirdseat]

They have greater freedom in the former Soviet Union than we have today in the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave", thanks to John Ashcroft and GW.

[specialed]

Unless you make a bunch of money and then disagree with the president.