Yesterday Hunter S. Thompson would have turned 71, so this seems as good a time as any to reflect that, as America is sluicing towards fascism, we could use Hunter’s urgent voice now more than ever.
As it becomes clear our nation has tortured innocent people in our name, illegally wiretapped American phones, violated the writ of Habeas Corpus by holding people in overseas prisons, and prosecuted a false war and ensuing occupation, Hunter would be howling in his kitchen at Owl Farm right now like Joseph Kurtz in Heart of Darkness, mumbling, “The horror! The horror!”
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