V: Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me V. Madam Justice...this is V. V... this is Madam Justice. hello, Madam Justice.
Justice: Good evening, V.
V: There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking...
Justice: The poor boy has a crush on me...an adolescent fatuation.
V: I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn't like that at all. I've long admired you...albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. I'd say to my father, "Who is that lady?" And he'd say "That's Madam Justice." And I'd say "Isn't she pretty."
V: Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.
Justice: What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!
V: I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!
V: Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.
Justice: Uniform? Why I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one...
V: Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!
V: Well? Cat got your tongue? I though as much.
V: Very well. So you stand revealed at last. you are no longer my justice. You are his justice now. You have bedded another.
Justice: Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?
V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So good bye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman I once loved.
*KABOOM!*
-"V for Vendetta"
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Date: 2009-12-08 07:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-08 07:54 am (UTC)I'm trying to see where in the world I can safely escape to.
I'm thinking maybe I should marry someone...
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Date: 2009-12-09 12:41 am (UTC)That said, getting carded (twice) was one of the most...well, hostile and intrusive experiences I could name, and I was only there for a year.
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Date: 2009-12-09 10:58 pm (UTC)Yes, that's why I highlighted the difference between my experience and being required to carry one by your own government. I was quite astonished and horrified when a friend who I thought was Japanese (and was actually of Korean ancestry, but used a Japanese name) had one.
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Date: 2009-12-10 04:34 am (UTC)And I can't really imagine that, either, despite my flipply talking about it. It's definitely gotten harder to go through life in the States without some form of ID, but there's a huge difference between that and being fined for not having government-issued ID on you at all times, which is what zainichi Koreans deal with in Japan.
I have one friend who swears up and down that the Japanese police can't actually stop foreigners without cause, and that you should argue with them, but the two times it happened to me (well, three if you count the traffic stop, for which the guy did have cause--my bike light was out) were not situations in which I felt comfortable arguing, leaving aside the question of whether I had the vocabulary to do so, which I probably didn't. And the whole discussion obscures the point in question, which is that no one's government should do this to them, period.
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Date: 2009-12-08 11:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-08 05:03 pm (UTC)Your country sells winter appropriate clothing. I'm less paranoid about the weather than I am about being under surveillance!
Canada, Check!
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Date: 2009-12-08 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-08 05:07 pm (UTC)This is going to backfire soooooo badly.
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Date: 2009-12-08 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-08 05:22 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2009-12-08 08:08 pm (UTC)Of course, you will have to put up with me cooking copious amounts of baked goods. We take doing dishes in lieu of rent.
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Date: 2009-12-08 08:46 pm (UTC)I'm good at doing dishes! It was my thing during kitchen duty in the military and my chore at home anyway.
New Mexico, check!
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Date: 2009-12-08 10:46 pm (UTC)Someday, we will have to be adults about this.
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Date: 2009-12-09 12:42 am (UTC)My futon is always open, though I don't know where it and I will be next September.
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Date: 2009-12-09 06:28 am (UTC)Thanks for the offer!
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Date: 2009-12-09 03:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-09 06:28 am (UTC)Thank you very much :)
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Date: 2009-12-09 11:30 pm (UTC)It would not be in my own place but my boyfriend has a spare bedroom.
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Date: 2009-12-10 08:46 am (UTC)Netherlands, Check!
This is all hypothetical at the moment, but I'm very glad that I have international friends I know would let me stay for a while until I get an orderly life :)