Not knowing enough about Edward Snowden to do more than check the spelling of his name, I will nonetheless steal a moment to consider his distinction from our other, more notorious leaker of government secrets, Bradley Manning.īefore I do that for the six readers I have left (finally, I'm back where I belong), here's a redirection towards Tarzie. The degree to which someone disagrees with this assertion is the degree to which that person can be relied upon to sacrifice you and your interests should the occasion ever arise. There is nothing occurring anywhere on the planet which reasonably justifies the existence of the CIA, the FBI or the NSA. The lower the final number, the more likely it is this person will be able to not only justify your arrest, torture, incarceration or death-by-government to his or herself, but also to actively support it. Multiply by four if it includes a redirection to "organized crime" or "the mentally ill."ħ. Count the number of seconds until the respondent uses the words "national security," "law," "order," "prevention," "terrorism" or "crime." Multiple the number of seconds by one if this reply includes the word "Islam" or "Muslims." Multiply by two if it makes reference to "cartels," "illegals," "Mexicans," "Latin America" or "the inner city" and "gangs." Multiply by 2.5 if the concern centers on "leftists," "ecoterrorists," "union thugs" or "militias." Multiply by three if the response insists upon "threats" from Russia or China. If they don't make it back, they're the Turks' problem.Ħ. If they make it back, they have to nominate a complete stranger to take position in the CIA, using only the "pick a random name out of the phone book" method. People who like store brand chocolate corn ball cereal are put on a boat for which the only port of call is Mersin, Turkey. Week two will be scheduled entirely for training in make up self-application. Grape Nuts aficionados are shunted off directly to the NSA, where they will spend their first week of orientation being fitted for custom, clown nose and performance accessories. People who like Frosted Flakes are assigned positions at random in the FBI. Suggest that appointment to the CIA, NSA or FBI be made only on the basis of a sliding scale of preference for Frosted Flakes, Grape Nuts or generic brand Cocoa Puffs. Or, if your tastes run to the baroque, the image (captured as if frozen in time) of a CIA case manager briefing an asset in a Lebanese McDonald's parking lot, each astride an oversized tricycle seat - the agent dressed as Bozo, the asset as a rodeo clown.ĥ. Contemplate the bright beauty of NSA snoops sitting at their terminals, garishly attired, faces a'painted in sideshow colors, noodling through sensitive materials in search of a pay raise or a promotion. It's that their members aren't required to dress up as circus clowns whenever on official business."ģ. Make "outrageous" claim, along the lines of: "The real problem isn't that the FBI, NSA and CIA don't communicate, or that as organizations they torture, spy and frame up with near impunity. Introduce the FBI, CIA or NSA into a conversation. A lot of apparatchiks are moving a lot of phony numbers with more zeros than a century of soccer scores around, weaving a brittle chrysalis around a gross worm that, some time hence, will emerge, untransformed, still a worm." ~ IOZġ. The fight is neither revolution nor apocalypse it is hardly even a fight. where his ire might do some good-I can think of no better spot for a little wetland reclamation project, if you know what I mean. Poseiden, earth-shaker, has regrettably set his sights on the poor fishermen of northern Japan and not on Washington, D.C. The fate of human existence does not hang in the balance. " ~ davidly, on how wars get done ".What sort of meager, unerotic existence must a man live to find himself moved to such ecstatic heights by the mundane sniping of a congressional budget fight. ".it's not the training to be mean but the training to be kind that is used to keep us leashed best." ~ Black Dog Red "In case you haven't recognized the trend: it proceeds action, dissent, speech.
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