JazzManJim
On the Downbeat
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Okay, the general public is a body of single-minded idiocy.
Let's look at this whole War on Terrorism thing.
First, the public wants to know about all the terrorist alerts. Then that's too much. It scares them. It makes them tremble. It makes them all tense. No more alerts, please.
Then they find out that the government had some information that may have said that maybe terrorists could use airplanes to blow up a building. Among other things. Of course, this means that the government had somehow gotten its hot little mitts on the entire plan, handwritten by Bin laden himself. Of course, that's not true and any cursory reading of the disparate pieces of information can tell you this, but of course the public can't read - sheep are illiterate. So now they want all the information again. Never mind that it gave them upset tummies and trembling hands the last time it happened. I'm waiting for them to ask the government to stop again. It's only a matter of time.
One week they want us to invade Iraq and the next week they want us to wait. What are we waiting for? An International coalition. A miraculous buildup of military forces. Elvis to return and lead the invasion himself. Never mind that there's no chance of building that coalition since this time Hussein isn't actually threatening the "moderate" countries over there. He's just blowing up everyone else and that's okay. We deal with hypocrites as a matter of routine. It's the price paid to make sure the herd has gasoline for their cars. Sacrifice isn't a word with which they're very familiar. Of course, the sheep have yet to consider that just perhaps the Middle East isn't the only place to buy gasoline. Maybe they should look at Russia, South America, and Mexico. But you can't tell them that. They're smart, too. Ask them.
So they've hollered and screamed for the government to keep them safe. They're appalled that two huge bureaucracies haven't been able to communicate quickly and efficiently to each other. Never mind that the reason those agencies are huge is because the sheep demanded that they be so. Never mind that one of those agencies was doing work they've never been set up to do. Never mind that the two agencies have never gotten along and the sheep have allowed this to happen even after it was pointed out to them that it was a problem 15 years ago.
So now there's a shiny new Department of HOmeland Security. Uh oh, say the sheep. Big Brother's coming! Look out! Hide! It's the Second Coming of COINTELPRO! J Edgar Hoover has risen from the grave to spy on you in a nice taffeta gown! No, they haven't actually read the proposal, which does every single thing they've been screaming for nine months they want done. They haven't seen that what is being done is the moving of smaller divisions of other Departments to this department. It's not important that you might could have Customs and the INS and the Coast Guard and the Secret Service all working for the same person now. That would probably help communication among the front-line agencies dealing with our borders and dangerous things coming into our country. On the face alone it's an improvement, even if it does get screwed up somewhere along the line. Intra-agency communication is always easier than inter-agency communications. The sheep would know that from their daily jobs, if they paid attention to them. But they don't. So they've gotten exactly what they want and it's a horrible thing for them. They're wailing and gnashing their teeth.
They want the head of Robert Mueller. They want to elect the brave little Minnesota agent as Queen of the Planet. Of course, they don't think that Mueller had the job for one whole week before Sept 11. What had they accomplished in their first week? How much of their job and the company they worked for did they know in a week? That's not important. Hang him.
Sheep. Just sheep and the bleating never stops. Time for me to stop reading the newspaper.
Let's look at this whole War on Terrorism thing.
First, the public wants to know about all the terrorist alerts. Then that's too much. It scares them. It makes them tremble. It makes them all tense. No more alerts, please.
Then they find out that the government had some information that may have said that maybe terrorists could use airplanes to blow up a building. Among other things. Of course, this means that the government had somehow gotten its hot little mitts on the entire plan, handwritten by Bin laden himself. Of course, that's not true and any cursory reading of the disparate pieces of information can tell you this, but of course the public can't read - sheep are illiterate. So now they want all the information again. Never mind that it gave them upset tummies and trembling hands the last time it happened. I'm waiting for them to ask the government to stop again. It's only a matter of time.
One week they want us to invade Iraq and the next week they want us to wait. What are we waiting for? An International coalition. A miraculous buildup of military forces. Elvis to return and lead the invasion himself. Never mind that there's no chance of building that coalition since this time Hussein isn't actually threatening the "moderate" countries over there. He's just blowing up everyone else and that's okay. We deal with hypocrites as a matter of routine. It's the price paid to make sure the herd has gasoline for their cars. Sacrifice isn't a word with which they're very familiar. Of course, the sheep have yet to consider that just perhaps the Middle East isn't the only place to buy gasoline. Maybe they should look at Russia, South America, and Mexico. But you can't tell them that. They're smart, too. Ask them.
So they've hollered and screamed for the government to keep them safe. They're appalled that two huge bureaucracies haven't been able to communicate quickly and efficiently to each other. Never mind that the reason those agencies are huge is because the sheep demanded that they be so. Never mind that one of those agencies was doing work they've never been set up to do. Never mind that the two agencies have never gotten along and the sheep have allowed this to happen even after it was pointed out to them that it was a problem 15 years ago.
So now there's a shiny new Department of HOmeland Security. Uh oh, say the sheep. Big Brother's coming! Look out! Hide! It's the Second Coming of COINTELPRO! J Edgar Hoover has risen from the grave to spy on you in a nice taffeta gown! No, they haven't actually read the proposal, which does every single thing they've been screaming for nine months they want done. They haven't seen that what is being done is the moving of smaller divisions of other Departments to this department. It's not important that you might could have Customs and the INS and the Coast Guard and the Secret Service all working for the same person now. That would probably help communication among the front-line agencies dealing with our borders and dangerous things coming into our country. On the face alone it's an improvement, even if it does get screwed up somewhere along the line. Intra-agency communication is always easier than inter-agency communications. The sheep would know that from their daily jobs, if they paid attention to them. But they don't. So they've gotten exactly what they want and it's a horrible thing for them. They're wailing and gnashing their teeth.
They want the head of Robert Mueller. They want to elect the brave little Minnesota agent as Queen of the Planet. Of course, they don't think that Mueller had the job for one whole week before Sept 11. What had they accomplished in their first week? How much of their job and the company they worked for did they know in a week? That's not important. Hang him.
Sheep. Just sheep and the bleating never stops. Time for me to stop reading the newspaper.
