12th May 2006
Life in a Police State
I am so depressed about politics these days, I can’t bear to think of it. If this administration is able to walk away from this latest outrage of monitoring the calls of 200 million Amerikans, I am going to blow a gasket. I am definitely ready to pick up a sign and march in the streets this weekend, if there’s the slightest opportunity. Maybe I’ll just have to have a protest of one and see if I can get the ball rolling.
And just when you’re sure it can’t get any bleaker, it gets even bleaker. Adi calls my attention now to this: Richard Kelly, director of the subversive Danny Darko movie, is having his long-anticipated second movie premier at Cannes: Southland Tales, which tells the story of a near future in which the U.S. becomes a police state following another major terrorist attack. Except that…this part isn’t the movie, it’s real life…the Department of Homeland Security has reportedly confiscated Kelly’s passport because his name is similar to that of a most-wanted terrorist (and apparently they can’t tell the difference), so he may miss the premier of his own film at Cannes. Needless to say, he’s muttering that it seems like a suspicious coincidence to him, given his film’s subject matter.
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