World Enough and Time

sort of on this line – I rewrote Ael’s rant at the Tricameron to use on various congresscritters. With a credit line, of course – I may be crazy, but I’m not stupid. Whether I did it *well* – I don’t know.

‘You have sold honor for power’, she said. ‘You have sold what America used to be, to what a neocon thinks America ought to be. You have sold your names, you have sold everything that mattered about this country — the nobility, the striving to be something right — for the sake of being feared in other lands. You have sold the Constitution of your ancestors for plots and acts that cannot stand the light of day, and sold your courage for expediency. Your forefathers, so many of whom fought and died for the rights and freedoms you discard so carelessly, would rise up out of their graves and come haunting you if they could. But they cannot. So we have.’