Surfing around, I stumbled blindly upon this post about a writer facing imprisonment for insulting Turkey. Not the birdish beasties so many of us eat at Thanksgiving. This guy is a writer in Turkey, and he said something to piss off the powers that be. Apparently the Turks killed a bunch of Armenians, etc., and the Turkish powers are in denial. Same as it ever was.

Now it doesn’t surprise me that the Turks have no particular protections of freedom of speech, but I am a bit nonplussed that they’re so flagrant with its opposite. Especially with the armies of the perniciously democratic Emperor George just over the border. They must think His Arrogance can’t think of a good reason for some regime change there too, long as he’s in the neighborhood.

Weird. But as long as we’re the subject of free speech … ahem: The government of the United States killed off most of the native population of what is now America, in systematic acts of genocide, and left the few impecunious survivors royally screwed. There, I said it. Avast and have at me, oh blind and smelly winds of Justice!