As the civilized world holds its breath, hoping against hope that yesterday's bloodless Unity Tele-op will not be followed with another of a more "robust" nature, in the US a man who is not Agent Osama bin Laden (CIA, sabbatical) but who does play him, rather badly, on TV, has captivated his audience, as simple in their faith as in their zeal for bloodshed.
Within minutes of the mediocre actor's stilted delivery of a script so hastily and thoughtlessly written that to call it "phoned in" would be a kindness, the heartbreakingly small number of Americans who had managed to hold on to their faculties despite the Goebbelathon of the past three years had dropped their 911 timelines, their patient repeated explanations that colonialist wars of aggression are seldom welcomed by the victims, that whether in the schoolyard or on the world stage, he who would keep his sweets or loved ones safe will best achieve that by refraining from mauling, maiming and slaughtering the sweets and loved ones of others, and run into the streets chanting "evildoers who hate freedom" and cheering on to greater slaughter the bestial hordes of torturers and sexual predators that have come to represent the United States in the civilized world.
What had been a loose but closely held collection of beliefs, in the space of a few moments, coalesced into a religion, complete with all the blind faith in contradictory tenets that religions are famous for.
Thus it is perhaps appropriate that even from this, the ragged isolated pockets of heresy who wait, in varying degrees of silence, bound to their stakes, as the faithful pile the kindling, fittingly ironic that these wretches can snatch a small, if pyrrhic victory: the bloodless Unity Op was every bit as effective as a bloody one would have been.
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Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
DTF, I don't know how I could be astonished by your fatwas by now, but I still am.
And with the regularity of a bin Laden appearance, I ask, what in God's name are you talking about? Do you equate 9/11 with any actual actions by the US? Did we deserve it? Was the invasion of Afghanistan unjustified?
What would be the appropriate path and who should lead us there? Let me guess, we should take bin Laden at his word and do our darndest to appease him, because he wouldn't hate us and kill 3000+ of us if we hadn't done something to him first, right?
I desperately wish you could apply your well-functioning brain and writing skills to a worldview slightly closer to the earth than to Pluto.
2 - DuctapeFatwa
The powers that be in Washington feel that it is best that the 911 events not be looked into too closely.
Questions regarding any stock transactions involving airlines in the days preceding 9-11-01, for instance, are considered bad form to say the least, as is any perceived reluctance to accept the miraculous appearance of an unsinged passport, as some victims' families were being informed that they would have nothing to bury; their loved one had been vaporized.
Above all, no right-thinking American allows the words "cui bono?" to cross his mind, nor delve into which companies have enjoyed increased revenue since America elected to send its sons to die for the glory and the pipeline.
In fact, it is suggested that any such suggestions be met with a curt denial that any pipeline ever existed, and reports of the Taliban being invited to Texas at any time are clearly tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.
Far, far better to go out into the night, candle held high, and chant "Evildoers who hate Freedom."
Under the circumstances, the importance of comfort cannot be underestimated.
3 - Eric Olsen
no event this side of the Kennedy assassination has been looked at more closely
and you brought up "tinfoil," I didn't but if the hat fits ...
4 - DuctapeFatwa
It is a fact that those who consider any view that does not come from a government press release to be a "tinfoil hat conspiracy theory," and stay away from google or other sites that harbor these theories are happier people, and given the current situation, safer.