Freedom in America

From the Seattle Times

In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations bar American companies from publishing works by dissident writers in countries under sanction unless they first obtain U.S. government approval.

The restriction, condemned by critics as a violation of the First Amendment, means that books and other works banned by some totalitarian regimes cannot be published freely in the United States.

Wow. Thank goodness we have Bush as our President, eh? He is out there sending our troops to kill other human beings that, you know, hate freedom. “They hate freedom!” he says. So what does his administration do? Bans writers from other countries from having their works published in the United States of America without the government okaying it first.

Wow. Land of the free. Thank goodness we have Bush to protect us from those freedom haters out there.