A friend of mine used to say that with a silly grin on his face, every time we'd catch a little biz-uzz whilst golfing from the distant twelfth tee at ye olde Mudde Brooke links.

...Nothing wrong with that, mind you. I would fain be biz-uzzing and/or golfing at this very moment, quite truthfully.

It's the "official" thing that's really getting stuck in my craw lately, though. It's getting ugly out there in politics land again. I mean, everything's about government nowadays. Everything.

An alarming, international, Nanny-State cartel, the "Bleed-the-Nit-wit-American Tax-Slaves for Eternity Coalition," led by the current extra-constitutional "American" government down in Washington, District of Thieves, has become quite rightly perceived by the peasants of the world---including us of the American variety---as merely the latest aspirants to the irresistibly glittering and seductive throne of World Empire.

America, the Republic, ...the Land of the Free, ...our grand experimental refuge of Peace and haven of Prosperity amidst a despotic world, has become the leading modern world nation of "The War."

The Politicos are declaring War on everything. The "War on Terror," the "War on Drugs," the "War on Racism," the "War on Poverty," the "War on Gay Lesbians," and on, and on, and on, and on.... The War on This, the War on That...

It's gone far past being merely sickening, too. More like irreversibly destructive. Turn on any tv and catch the glitzy, high-tech productions, ...all war--all government--all-the-time programs, ...all over the tube, ...and all of them hosted by unnaturally attractive script-readers with brown eyes and blonde hair and gorgeous legs and names like Shontal and LaToya. It's positively fucking sinister!

Chanting ceaselessly in their powerful and monotonous Orwellian cadences are the government's most prominent publicity outlets, the FOX.War.network, CNN's America-Unites-and-Lashes-Back Channel, and MSNBC's All-Out.WAR.BOMB. They relentlessly and expertly pound out the party line in an overt, frontal, lockstep assault on the collective national senses, shaming the most cunning of the evil latter-day Propagandistas with their constant ululations.

Take a little drive down to your local mega-WalMart-Made-in-China store this Sunday and have a look around. The streets are virtually awash with red, white, and blue, while "God Bless America" marquees festoon every other storefront. People are always rushing to close the barn door after the horse has already gone.

Yes, the PR machine is cranking full-bore and working like a charm, whipping up an international martial frenzy, ...not only with the cops, the school-teachers, and the welfare clans, either ...but with the formerly staunch pacifists from the far left, and the far right, the Bible-pounders, and even the Libertarians, too.

The whole damned world's gone nuts! Clowns to the left of me and jokers to the right are lounging on the radio-satellite microwave-transmission side lines, glued to their big-screens (no money down, deferred payments till next year?) while munching Doritos and swilling Diet Cokes (food stamps?), ...grotesquely cheering on a nearly two month old, non-stop, billion upon billion dollar, aerial bombardment of a literal handful of backward primitive Afghani tribespeople, their goats, and their stark mountainous homeland, ...all because a hopelessly inept "official" intelligence community informs us that a few dozen rich Saudi radicals managed to buy off some Sultan and secure a base in some remote, dank, mountain cave, from which they successfully wrought the destruction of the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon? Give me a break!

Dilettante warmongers amongst the soccer-mom legions and the Joe Sixpack hordes, who somehow incredibly cling to the last fleeting vestige of human civility, reason, and common sense they might have ever once possessed, whine, "We must act! If not this, then what should we do?"

How about this? Firstly, get it through your numb skull that ever more government is not the solution to the nasty messes governments themselves have gotten us into.

Razing a Texas-size nation of historically warlike peoples to eradicate a band of isolated mad bombers is kinda like trying to douse out a fire.... with gasoline. Implore---no, DEMAND--- the dullard ruling class to save everyone much grief and money and simply hire some local mercenaries to pull off an inside job.

Realize that police and/or soldiers cannot possibly be arrayed around you every moment of the day and night to ensure your safety and security from hell-bent terrorists or common criminals. Stop snivelling like a puking dog and begin to take responsibility for yourself. Take realistic steps to ensure your own safety, independent of government forces and nanny agencies.

Voice your support for bringing America's armies home from far-flung foreign bases and adventures, thousands of miles removed from our own home's borders. How ironic that recently vilified Germany is flying security surveillance patrols over our national Eastern corridor, as the American military chases the rare and wild Arabian Terror Goose through the rugged sub-ranges of the daunting Himalayas?

Resist and oppose the ridiculous and make-believe security measures imposed upon air travelers by posturing government agencies and regulators. Let's face it. The problem isn't with the used car salesman from Toledo carrying a butter knife in a picnic lunch basket, or a little old lady flying to Palm Springs who happens to have a nail file and clippers in her toiletry bag. Focus on the real threat. You know, ...the young zealous followers of wealthy Saudi radicals, those who appear to exhibit classic martyr-wannabe symptoms, such as the dead give-away foaming at the lips, and the tell-tale satanically sparkling eye.

Common sense would dictate that a pistol or two dispersed amongst the cockpit crew, and a couple of sky marshals sitting unobtrusively in every cabin would clear up any lingering hijacking problems commercial aviation might have, but predictably, if not laughably, the government solution is to shoot the airliners out of the sky should their initial passenger/pilot disarmament screening procedures fail to ensure the security of any specific flights.

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11-5-2001