T^R^R_ZM, they tell us, is a germ so dangerous that we must change the American way of life to fight it. We must break every law to find it, send nukes to halt it, and dismiss the very heart of the Constitution to overpower it.
But it is that dire. T^R^R_ZM is the virus that mutates sanity; the bug that eats Reason. One microscopic, undetectable leg drags across the petri dish of your mind, and you can't add 2 + 2 anymore. After T^RR^R_ZM nudges your equation, even the "=" sign is classified. That's how infectious and crippling it is.
Don't take this reporter's word for it, folks. Watch it in action. Just inject T^R^R_ZM into a sentence, page, or paragraph and watch the fun begin, as Reason is instantly dissolved by even the proximity of the word! It's a magical, New Age, nightmare NeoCon concoction of Thought anti-coagulates and Sanity corrosives that glide effortlessly past any leukocyte or lipid barrier to target the nucleus of the Sense cell and destroy it without leaving a trace.
T^R^R_ZM is the most powerful germ of all time, although through the years, different names have been used. In the end, the name is irrelevant, and T^R^R_ZM remains the only microscopic ultra-contagious agent strong enough that even a single whiff instantly fuses every synaptic cleft in the inhaler's brain. This causes the skeleton to fold into a kneeling position as the victim is wracked with shivers of fear and reverence.
T^R^R_ZM—so potent, that in its face, entire nations discard age-old and revered documents that had previously guided an entire working set of laws and rights!
T^R^R_ZM, so contagious that it can be transmitted through the warmer temperatures found in the hearts of Peace activists; the glue of library book bindings; kisses (especially with liberals); hostile glances, and even nervous thoughts!
T^R^R_ZM: so toxic that a President (or his agent) is allowed to banish or torture any citizen if he so much as personally suspects that the citizen in question is infected!
T^R^R_ZM. So verbally vicious and lexicographically limber that it dissolves words like "Unalienable"; crushes terms like "International," and has the power to wholly transform phrases like "Opposition Party" into others, such as "Silent Minority" or "Complicit By Means of Acquiescence."
The mind-bending might of this deadly agent must not be underestimated. You can't hold your breath long enough, you won't resist its taint, you cannot escape the touch of its toxin. You need protection. T^R^R_ZM is among you and your kind—and spreading rapidly (by means of handshake, telephone, email, mail, x-ray, infrared camera, nightscope, broken Treaty, dismissed Convention, violated Principle, and spy plane).
True: A group of granny activists hands out cookies to recruiters and they are tracked by the Pentagon because we live in an age of T^R^R_ZM, "so who knows?" asks Lt. Col Stan Zezotarski. "Who knows who could infiltrate that type of group and try to stir something up?"
Who knows, indeed.
A president is caught breaking the laws of the nation that (theoretically) elected him, but is hailed by many for doing so because of the silent but lurking viral touch of T^R^R_ZM.
Spreading like wildfire through their payroll departments, T^R^R_ZM creeps into the minds of various TV pundits, who refuse to actually collapse under the command of their illness or report to a psych ward, but instead, crouch and continue to gesticulate, ambulate, and spew inanity and dyslogic. On television. (One of the first signs you have been infected is that this nonsense begins to sound reasonable.)
A mighty nation on the verge of many modern scientific marvels turns backward to a time when Nuclear violence seemed a viable outlet for the human race's unceasing primitive aggressions against itself, and while many uninfected citizens express outrage and shock at the thought, the many minds darkened with the deadly T^R^R_ZM germ can only view such violence as a means of securing safety.
Such is the power of T^R^R_ZM. It corrupts the reasoning process and grips the heart with fear, and madness. It twists the normal pathways of thought into dangerous loops that veer and dive into knots that leave no escape. A mind infected with T^R^R_ZM sees an invitation to death and disorder as a New Day Dawning.
We have to face it: this threat is every bit as deadly as the Bush administration would have us believe. However, allowing these men and women to offer a prescription for its cure is like asking a leper for a backrub.
Nezua is an author and illustrator by trade, a rebel at heart, and a fugitive from the iron claw of ennui. You can find more of his writing at http://www.theunapologeticmexican.org , his videos at http://think.mtv.com/profile/Nezua , and graphic art at http://www.xolagrafik.com
We have only ourselves to blame for being led by the nose with the catch phrase du jour. Terrorists are freedom fighters to some, handy political tools to others, excuses for constituional violations to our pResident. Dont you think that bin Laden would be dead in a cave in Tora Bora if he wasnt so useful to the radical right?
So, do you blame Bush? How about that evil Cheney person? Better yet it must be Rummy's fault after all,huh? All we must do, I'll bet, is elect those unimpeachably pure Democrats and all this will go away......sorry folks, to really find the culprit responsible for the demise of our democracy and the slaughter of innocents world wide all that is needed is a mirror.
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ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2388 comments)
on Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 2:40:15 PM
You are so right. The Democrats are no cure. They are a tourniquet, and I just want to stanch the blood for a moment so I can think. But if you follow your thinking all the way to the end, you find yourself at some of my other essays, which people like even less, at times. Because the truth is, in Bush's arrogant and criminal acts, you are actually seeing the America we have always had—from the days of the Native American genocidal Manifest Destiny-driven rampages, to the unprovoked attack on the Seminoles in 1818 (what is now FL, USA) to bolster our rep and scare off the Brits, to the war on Iraq. America is a war-hungry, profit-driven, god-tainted land of selfishness underneath all the candy wrapping, and nobody is going to solve that.
Do you like that view better? How do you solve that piece? Ignore it? Move? Vote? Nothing will change what America is at heart. Because nothing changes what Man is at heart (except Man, as you say, but while you and I may change, the masses will remain composed of the same percentages of blind people and sheep that it has since over 5,000 years ago).
Even since the days of Hatsheptsut (only female Pharaoh in Ancient Egypt) to George W. Bush, leaders have been lying about their divine mandates to scoop up power, land and riches—or perhaps just crazy enough to hear from a murderous Gawd! And until we leave this bright pearl, I submit, Good will battle with Greed and Fear.
I agree: Democrats are no cure. But nobody but the Bush administration has been this damaging to our American Pretense. I'd like to at least get somebody semi-sane up at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. so we can stop reacting to constant lawbreaking and corruption long enough to get a good overview of what we really DO need to change for the (long-term, big-pic) better.
After we "stanch the flow," we can talk about what to do to really become a beautiful Nation, inside to out. Maybe you'll have some suggestions. Bring along your mirror.
And thank you for reading.
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Nezua (42 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 93 comments)
on Monday, May 1, 2006 at 7:27:44 AM
The most prolific form of terrorism we have to fear are the Corporate Elite, those sitting in the White House and the corrupt agencies that have spawned from the Pentagon. They brought us 9/11. Not some skinny bearded arab sitting in a cave holding a lap top.
Shock, trauma and genocide all rolled into one. And during the trauma & shock they rolled out a fable which was bought hook line and sinker and they got what they planned. A foot in the door to begin seizing global assets. And it has been downhill since then for the people of this country and others abroad.
So much death with such a cavalier attitude.
I always thought Americans were thinking people, questioning people.
Everyone better start doing both and demanding the truth..That is the only way this roller coaster is going to stop or we will all find ourselves practicing what my children did..crawling under a table, bending over grabbing your ankles and kissing your behinds good bye...
As stupid an excercise then as it would be now.
The only thing that is going to change anything is exposing the lies and airing the truth and it's long overdue.. and the urgency greater..
Do what I did, go to ProgressivePress.com and get a copy of "Waking Up From Our Nightmare..The 9/11/01 Crimes in New York City" by Don Paul and Jim Hoffman... 59 pages of truth and if that doesn't light your fire nothing will. If it doesn't make you mad as hell nothing will....AND If it doesn't, this administration will when they nuke Iran.
But of course then..it will be too late.
Take your choice..Truth now? or never?
Get informed..then get a voice, tell everyone you know, hound your elected and make it loud & demanding until they hear you.
Watch your back truth seekers.
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Rae (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 219 comments)
on Monday, May 1, 2006 at 6:58:12 PM
