msobkow's Journal: A message to the United States of America

Some people say I post "Anti-American" rants, so I thought I'd oblige by posting EXACTLY THAT.

Dear United States of America:

I really love the technology created by your industries for the most part, especially in the IT realm. There's no denying that without American inventiveness, I wouldn't have a career in computers.

However, as a proud Candian, I have to object to your snake-oil salesman approach to trying to "fix" the Canadian system when it's not broken in the first place:

1. We LIKE our copyright laws. We LIKE being able to make backups of the media we OWN instead of lease. We LIKE being able to do format shifting, time shifting, and montage edits of video and audio. We DO NOT want YOUR copyright system in our country, despite the occasional bleating by Canadian media conglomerates who echo the "sky is falling" sentiments about the Canadian right to preview and prelisten to media to decide whether it's worth buying or not.

2. We LIKE our medical cannabis. Sure your DEA has their head stuck so far up their ass they can't see that over a dozen states have PROVEN cannabis has medical use, and continue to deny that nearly 75% of the "pharmaceutical" medications prior to prohibition of cannabis WERE based on cannabis preparations, but really, your DEA is just afraid of being unemployed more than anything else. So kindly take your jack boots, your riot gear, your SWAT teams, and all the rest of your "drug war" nightmare and keep it to yourselves.

3. We LIKE our system of government. Sure we bitch, whine, and complain (I'm a BWAC Expert!), but when it comes down to it, we know our politicians aren't sold out to corporate lobbyists and special interest groups. We have no interest in importing your "Bribery First" model of government.

4. We DON'T like going to war. While we have and will continue to assist nations in trouble who are under oppression by violent dictators or who are being invaded by their neighbours, we fundamentally disagree with killing people for having the audacity to interfere with our corporation's revenue streams. As you can see from our budget, it's a LOT cheaper to try to get along with the world than to invade it.

So please, America, take your fucked up legal system and SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS!