The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for July 14, 2010
July 13, 2010
July 15, 2010
Transcript:
Huey: C'mon, Riley! Get mad! The government wants to spy on every purchase you make, every book you take out of the library, every e-mail you send, everything! Riley: So what? Huey...I don't buy nothing I can't steal, I don't read, and I don't use computers. Huey: Who knew ignorance could be so liberating...
For what it’s worth, I don’t think those facts add up either.
Ending slavery and defeating fascism have both been accomplished at far less cost (money, lives and emotional fallout) in most other cases. We’re still paying the interest on WWII, and additional human complications of the Civil War keep cropping up.
I’m actually glad India and Pakistan didn’t declare a Revolutionary War as lengthy and draining as our own, and that South Africa got from 1980 to 2000 without a civil war and “reconstruction.” In both cases, the paths taken required sacrifices and heroics that I think hold their own compared to war stories.