Bodysnatchers

So, I suppose I've gotten away from the mission statement of this little place, partially because of my inability to really track current events like I used to, but...

I am disheartened in the way the world is right now. I mean, it seems that a new country does something to limit the freedom of their people each day. It started a while ago with Burma, but now Pakistan's leader has called for emergency rule instead of holding elections that he was reportedly going to lose. People weren't happy, and where people aren't happy, they protest, and ya know, I don't think I need to explain what happens to protesters. In Russia, too, they arrested Kasparov (SP?) for organizing protests against Putin, which um, shouldn't be illegal. But it is, so...

What's worse is that no one seems to care. Bush isn't delivering ultimatums to Burma's leader like he did to Saddam. He's called for Pakistani elections, but meh, he's not doing anything harsher than that. None of the news agencyies are keen on reporting on it. Americans probably aren't keen to hear it, either, though. Too worried about black friday and skyrocketing oil prices and losing their houses.

This is depressing. Maybe this is why I stopped.

Presidential candidates don't look too different. Nothing new. Nothing groundbreaking. Nothing to change the way things are going. Bleh.