Double-shot Thursday
Nov. 10th, 2005 11:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyesetz
In my life I have been unable to avoid making some acquaintances among the
US intelligence community. Recently the acquaintance with the highest
security clearance in my circle sent me this ominous message:
When I was in high school, we were taught to hate the Soviet Union because of its gulag archipelago, its mafia-style politics (loyalty and litmus tests over intelligence and competance), its preference for message discipline over truth, and especially for its one-party rule and the endemic corruption that unavoidably follows. So basically we were taught to hate... what the US has become. We have met the enemy and he is: Emmanuel Goldstein (just an alias for Karl Rove).
It was September 20, 2001 when President W. enunciated the Bush Doctrine: Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. This despicable announcement was then followed by a horrible, frightening silence, as nobody of any note dared to mention that this doctrine is Fascist and the Leader of the Free World should not be saying such things. Silence gives consent; since then the Constitution has become just a piece of paper that W. uses to wipe his ass. It's four years later and I am still here in the States. This is not what I had expected.
A message from Ted Kennedy
Work continues to churn along. I may have had a hand in saving some lives
this week. If there should arise some hitch with the Canucks, consider a
stint with the xxxxx [<- topsecret code]. You could do some good and get paid for it.
I am unable to disprove the hypothesis that this acquaintance is capable
of creating a "hitch with the Canucks" by adding my name to a secure
database of "citizens of interest who might be willing to work for us if
they can be convinced that emigration is just too difficult" (see Berlin
Wall, increase in East German GNP after building of). But I have been
avoiding a US security clearance for 25 years now (December 1980, to be
precise) and intend never to get one. Canada can grant me a clearance
if they wish, and share my results with the Yanks if they think it
appropriate, but I shall not deal directly with The Beast.When I was in high school, we were taught to hate the Soviet Union because of its gulag archipelago, its mafia-style politics (loyalty and litmus tests over intelligence and competance), its preference for message discipline over truth, and especially for its one-party rule and the endemic corruption that unavoidably follows. So basically we were taught to hate... what the US has become. We have met the enemy and he is: Emmanuel Goldstein (just an alias for Karl Rove).
It was September 20, 2001 when President W. enunciated the Bush Doctrine: Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. This despicable announcement was then followed by a horrible, frightening silence, as nobody of any note dared to mention that this doctrine is Fascist and the Leader of the Free World should not be saying such things. Silence gives consent; since then the Constitution has become just a piece of paper that W. uses to wipe his ass. It's four years later and I am still here in the States. This is not what I had expected.
A message from Ted Kennedy
