When are you going to have George Orwell do a cameo? Most what Snuggly's "spin" is right out of his writings. "We want George! We want George! We want George! We want George!".

Why is their not a tag to the other Snuggly cartoons? It is hard to go back and find the other Snuggly ones. I really like the one from last summer.
Casey?

There are bad guys out there that want to see every infidel dead. They are producing human beings that are bred to be suicide bombers. Their mothers would rather have their babies grow up to sacrifice their lives as a walking bomb than be a teacher, farmer or doctor. They do not respond to negotiations, logic, or any suggestion of peaceful coexistence. Their goal is to eliminate all non-believers from the face of this earth. They chop people's heads off. They fly airplanes into skyscrapers. They, too, want no more wars. After everyone converts to their religion or is killed.

The U.S.A. is the only country with the means, intelligence, and good sense to try and contain their evil goals. We are at war with the most insidious, evil opponent that ever existed. Pray that we have the tenacity to prevail and not give up.
eb

nice one! I was always longing for a cartoonist on this election, because this bush regime is so crazy, sometimes I think I'm in a dystopian movie like "1984"! Thanks Mark!

mark

this is one of your best. my husband loved it, it's what he's been saying for days now--after all, if they didn't get immunity, how can they help us the next time we ask them to break the law?? but aww, he's so snuggly, isn't he?

kenshin

I have been trying to find a phone that does not participate in illegal activities, If anybody has a suggestion, let me know.
Also, maybe a search engine?
Snuggly is I think your best character. This cartoon was wicked funny. You should do a cartoon on China's domestic Spy program. You could use a Panda Bear :) Google, Sysco, Yahoo, and all those other jerks are ridiculous. They should be prosecuted for the Human Rights violations they partake in.

Mark -

Love it! Well, not really, as you shouldn't have had to create it, but since it is the unfortunate situation we're in, you've summed it up brilliantly!

If you're into protesting this kind of thing, check out http://www.wiretapthis.com/, it allows you to create an email signature that is sure to get the NSA's attention if they're reading your email, with whatever you'd like to say to them.

This was a scream. Unfortunately it was tempered by how true it seems to be. BTW, nice semi hidden shot at the rockefellers and the "conspiracy".

Is this available for blog pages?

Hey Mark:

I just remembered you live in my home town, San Francisco. Will you be at the Wonder Con this week?

Thanx Mark:

Brilliant, as usual. I still find it so odd to hear the disconnect, emotionally tainted and just plain false information from the Neo Conservatives. I guess fear is the common denominator if you don't really want to think about stuff.

~albabe (The Writer/Artist formally known as Al Gordon)
http://www.comicon.com/gordon/gordon.htm

PS: Check out Glenn's latest:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/02/16/protecting_us/index.ht...

And it looks like the Heritage Foundation took down their Doom Clock. i guess they figured out how embarrassing it was:

http://www.heritage.org/

Hey, Clinton fits right in. She proposed a national ID card years ago.

She voted for the Patriot Act, which allows these things to go on.

And she was absent during the most recent FISA vote, effectively granting her approval.

Candidate of change? Yeah, all in the wrong direction.

Customs can open letters and packages to or from foreign destinations. Why should international telephone calls automatically be exempted from these rules? What do you say in your international phone calls that you're so worried about? I know that no one would want want to listen in on mine, and I wouldn't care if they did.

As for the habeas corpus comment - the question here is where the line should be drawn between constitutional rights of ordinary criminals and enemy combatants. No on thinks that soldiers on a battlefield should be bound by Miranda, rules of evidence and civil procedure, etc... But where do you draw the line?

Instead of fighting about this, maybe people should pay more attention to important freedoms, like the freedom to travel; to own and enjoy property (buy and sell it freely, develop it, etc); to freely practice religion; to speak freely, etc.

Kudos to Mark Fiore for an excellent dramatization of the folly of the Administrations actions and its political supporters.

Snuggly is a witty cartoon!

Bush is mush-brained if he thinks Americans can't see through his crimes this time.

fantastic.
easily the forerunner for most important political cartoon of '08.

Mark, it's quite possible this is one of your top-5 pieces over the past 7 years.

Most other abuses against our Constitution didn't actually touch most Americans. This warrantless wiretapping does, yet thanks to our conglomerate media cartel, these stories are filtered out of our living rooms. Ask any ordinary American what they know about this "warrantless wiretapping" thing and they'd likely reduce it to "something the Democrats are crying about while crippling our national security"... While having no idea every phone call to grandma, or to the pharmacist, or to a Priest or rabbi or chaplain to discuss family problems at home, are all being listened to and sifted for possible terrorist connection.

Your style has been so effective and prob hard for you to ever pick favorite pieces. I think this one is one of your most impt... WHoever mentioned succinct above is right. astounding how easily you crunched the whole narrative into about 7-8 bullet points. Now if only this cartoon could get pumped into every living room on TV sets...

thank you.

Mark:

I too heard about this on the Rachel Maddow Show. It was the Feb 15 show, currently available on iTunes as a free podcast. If you haven't heard her praise of your brilliance, it's worth a listen.

I'd love to hear you go on the show as a guest.

This is a brilliant summary of this subject; captures every nuance of the issue. EXCEPT the fact that Buscho will actually allow the supposedly crucial FISA extensions to lapse unless the telecoms are granted retroactive immunity. Conclusion: Bush, by his own arguments, is willing to risk the very lives of US citizens in an otherwise preventable terror attack in order to save the telecom companies from the mere possibility of exposure to potential lawsuits in which a court would decide whether or not they have done anything wrong. US lives held hostage to achieve freedom from litigation for the giant telecoms! Freedom is on the march!

You know how they say we shouldn't be afraid of wiretaps if we're doing nothing wrong? Well by that same token, the big telecoms shouldn't be afraid of legal exposure if they've done nothing wrong.

Keep up the excellent work.

Hope Snuggly the Security Bear is a recurring character.

KGD, Esq.
Lincoln, NE

What an amazingly concise summary of grim reality. Just brilliant.

This one cartoon is woth more than the Wash Post & all the Sabbath Gasbags combined!

Check out the Rachel Maddow show on Friday, 2/15 and hear her make a great plug for this cartoon. Please submit it to AlterNet and ThinkProgress as well. Great work Mark!

Jeff

you need to make this available for myspace, facebook etc!
maybe put a commercial or something in the beginning or maybe the end can bring traffic to your sight.

So please make this flash files available for all blogs, myspace and facebook so I (and others) can viral the love from the teddy and other wonderful & thoughtful news from our government and fellow corporations. ;)

Awesome stuff by the way I've been seeing your stuff since 2001! :)

Whew! That's a relief. Thanks Snuggly!

Security Bear,

You're not so secure after all. I guess that means if spies can eavesdrop on us without authorization that gives the general public authorization as well to do it too on them and people who they don't like its not that hard. You're a liar go back to the "sprout" TV network and scare kids with your tactics. You're rated TV-14 including Illegal Activities and Look at the Privacy Act of 1972 and ECPA of 1986.

ooooooooh, now I get it

thanks snuggly!!

That was brilliant... so scathing yet so cute

Okay, that was just about the most hilarious, scariest, true things I have seen in a while. Great stuff! I'm sharing it with everyone I know. Thanks!

-Jay

Note to Anonymous--comment which included the question: "are they still putting US citizens in GITMO?" No US citizens have ever been detained at GITMO. The two US citizens so far designated as enemy combatants, Jose Padilla and Yasir Hamdi, were detained at a Navy brig in South Carolina. Neither one is still there. Hamdi cut a deal after his S.Ct. case to relocate to Egypt and renounce his citizenship in exchange for no charges if he kept quiet about his treatment. Padilla was eventually charged with terrorist crimes to be heard in a US Federal court and transferred from DOD custody to DOJ custody. His trial in FLA was over and he was recently sentenced, despite defense claims that his treatment while he was detained as an enemy combatant should have resulted in severe restrictions in gvt evidence.

GITMO is not intended to hold US citizens, but I suppose the way things are going anything is possible. Note that both leading Presidential contenders (Obama for the Dems and McCain for the Republicans) have said they would close GITMO. Hillary's position is unclear. We'll see how things go on that, after 1/20/09.

Wow thanks for explaining this nonsense in a such clear and zinging way! Why are we letting our government get away with this nonsense?

-Scott Stevenson

By the way, I'm switching servers right now and there are some weird things going on. Sorry about the lack of animation beyond the current week. We should have that fixed soon. Arghh, stupid computers!

-Mark

Check out "The Spies Who Love You," and say hello to the NSA while you're at it!

-Mark Fiore