Crusader Nation
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(Conspiracy Nation, 11/11/05)
-- What a mess.
Is the Clash of Civilizations stressing you out? Are temper
tantrums from the "Right" and the "Left" giving you headaches? Do you
sometimes wish people would lighten up? Alas, the omens and portents
indicate that is not soon to be.
On the "Left," they hatch a plot to "Watergate" George W.
Bush. On the "Right" they go so far as to say, "In time of war dissent
is treason." This, even though "Dubya" Bush himself stated only a few
days ago, "I expect there to be dissent. That's what freedom is all
about."
How ironic if we bring freedom to Iraq yet lose it here at
home. Rush Limbaugh was in diaper mode yesterday, bawling that for
Democrats to criticize Bush amounts to treason. How convenient for the
GOP, to call any contrary opinions "treason."
Last year this editor received a 4 a.m. phone call from an
anonymous person who stated, "I can't believe you are an American."
This in regard to a story, "Hidden Power Of 'Ma' Bush" (http://www.shout.net/~bigred/Babs.htm)
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The anonymous caller also objected to that story's euphemism, "the
Bush supremacy." "Are you saying Bush is a supremacist?" asked Mr. X.
The true genesis of the story had been mathematical: a puzzle as to
who is the Nostradamian "Mabus." Some had speculated "Mabus" meant "Mr.
Bush," but Conspiracy Nation
sought a simpler solution. To transform "Mabus" to "Mr. Bush" involved
too many changes to be mathematically elegant: changing the "a" to "r";
adding a period; adding a space; adding an "h." This editor,
left-handed and therefore in his right mind, tends to be abstracted
into various puzzles. Mr. X could not understand a person who spent
hours pondering "Who is 'Mabus'?"
When the epiphany occurred and the answer dawned, that "Mabus" is
"Ma Bush," this editor burst out laughing. "That nice old lady, the
sinister
'Mabus'!" Right-handed people do not understand such things, but the
editor
about busted a gut at the "solution."
But this is serious stuff. No laughing. That is "treason." We've got
to be like "the Greatest Generation," who asked no questions.
World War II was kid's stuff compared with the Crusades. If we were
somehow to reawaken that sleeping monster, we'd stand a chance of being
even greater than Greatest Generation. So the Crusades were stirred up.
It's not easy to put the Crusades
back to sleep.
Congress critters on both sides of the aisle debate: Who woke the
sleeping dragon? "You did. You woke him with false intelligence," says
one side. "I did not," says the other side, "it was you guys who were
lax, and that woke him."
The weighty matters are discussed. The dragon is awake, what now?
"We have got to kill it," says Tweedledee. "Not so," says Tweedledum.
"If we tip-toe away, it might go back to sleep."
In the White House, refresher lectures in "ethics" are held. That's
sort of true: the knight must be pure before he goes to slay the
dragon. But better yet would be the Chivalric ideals, the knightly
code. Are we purer than our enemy? Talk is cheap; the field of honor
must decide. And wit ye well: the enemy might be more pure.
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