Hi! I'm Atefeh Rajabi. I was sixteen years old when a judge put a rope around my neck and I was hung from a tree. The governor sent the judge a letter of congratulations after my murder. You see, I was raped - or as the courts described it, I had sex with unmarried men. Each time (there were at least five) I was sent to prison and recieved one hundred lashes. The prison guards raped me too. Finally it got too much and they just killed me - Praise Allah! I send my greetings from the grave to all those who want to turn the United States into a theocracy, just like here in Iran.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."