Centigrade 451: Chertoff Targets Discontent
35Every bit as depraved, deranged and demented as he looks, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has enlisted firefighters and emergency responders as his eyes and ears in the fight against discontent in America. Not satisfied with demanding warning labels for satire, the Screaming Skull vowed to stamp out not only discontent, but metaphor, double entendre, innuendo, facetiousness, puns, sarcasm and anything smacking of witty repartee.
Firefighters and emergency personnel are being grilled in the investigative arts of detecting subtle signs of subversive activity such as the possession of worthwhile books, posters proposing world peace, suspiciously intellectual phrenology and telltale signs of terrorist sympathies inferred from micro facial expressions. Don't let a careless impulse to laugh betray your evil seditious secrets.
That dust covered Cat Stevens album in the attic? You can count on just something like that to net a lengthy stay in Guantanamo or an overnight rendition to Syria. So, hop around like hell, today, scrubbing your environs of anything that could be deemed as seeding dissent by postal workers, librarians, delivery drivers, neighbors, friends or family (including, I shudder to say, in-laws). Thought you'd enjoy a morning cup o' joe while perusing the Buzzflash headlines? Huh. Just remember, if there's a fire, you're fucked.
Unlike Chertoff I'm concerned about not disrupting vital services or I'd suggest a date and time for those millions of us yearning for a functional society to turn ourselves in.
See also:
Robert Weitzel: The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act: A Tutorial in Orwellian Newspeak
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/29063
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Under the terms of the proposed "Homegrown Terrorist Prevention Act", it would be illegal to be a Democrat. It would be illegal to even think about the Preamble to the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. Government of, by, and for the people would be replaced by government of the people, by the corporations, for the wealthy.
Evidently no one realizes that it's the people who give money value, that if the great mass of people have no money, wealth becomes an abstraction built on the people's respect for private property. When the people have no property, the social contract is broken. Without legal access to solvency, extra-legal means will be found. For every border fence there is a ladder, a tunnel, a crooked customs officer. The people drive this world and are an inexorable force in the continuing viability of civilization. Only so much exploitation and theft can occur before the tipping point is reached and the system collapses, with the wealth of the mighty availing them not.
warning labels for satire? Might be a good idea in the case of monty pythons "woulds funniest joke" skit - but that itself was just satire...
"My dog has no nose" - "well then how does he smell?" - "Lovely!"
I greatly fear for the United States, but also for the world. We may have lost much of our edge in the world of finance and science and other important aspects of what makes a nation powerful, but we still maintain a HUGE stockpile of nuclear weapons.
What would happen to the world if our nation became a fascist regime? Some people say we are already there, but God, I hope not!
We are so afraid of our own shadow that we, like the ancient Athenians, are willing to give up our freedoms and rights in the name of security.
Who was it who said that a people who are willing to give up these things were never worthy of them in the first place? Maybe that should be the motto on the Great Seal of the United States - right next to: "Give me liberty or give me death!"
Tim Hollis says:
2 years ago
After reading Robert Weitzel's post (linked above) it is obvious that bloggers are in great danger. Satire is no longer dependent on exaggeration. Failure to thwart the internet's thrust toward real democracy has prompted these oligarchic criminals to target anyone with the courage to speak up on behalf of authentic patriots endeavoring to maintain America's imperilled freedoms.