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Sun, 23 Oct 2005

Guns! Guns! Guns!

Good news: a Brazilian referendum to disarm law-abiding citizens was buried in a landslide. Better news: the anguished squealing of “anti-violence” natterers when the hippest country in Latin America voted square:

“The whole campaign (against the ban) was imported from the United States. They just translated a lot of material from the NRA,” said Jessica Galeria, a Californian who researches gun violence with the Viva Rio think tank, referring to the National Rifle Association. “Now, a lot of Brazilians are insisting on their right to bear arms, they don’t even have a pseudo right to bear arms. It’s not in their Constitution.”

The natives are demanding rights? Heaven forbid!

Fri, 02 Jan 2004

Godwin’s Law in Real Life

Hyperbole n.

Starting on Monday, people who need visas to enter the United States will be digitally fingerprinted and photographed when they pass through immigration at major U.S. airports and seaports. […]

“I consider [that] act absolutely brutal, threatening human rights, violating human dignity, xenophobic and worthy of the worst horrors committed by the Nazis,” said [Brazilian Federal Judge] Sebastiao da Silva[.]