No More Mr. Nice Guy!

The Phony War

Remember that stupid color-coded threat alert level system from a few years ago? What were all those colors supposed to mean? What was the difference between red and orange, and what were you supposed to do? Apart from peeing your pants in inchoate fear and dread every time Faux News regurgitated the latest scaremongering talking points from Karl Rove. (I bet he held stock in duct tape companies.)

Of course, once the system achieved its one and only purpose - getting Macaca elected (I refuse to say re-elected) - it quietly disappeared down the memory hole. Now it emerges that something very similar happened to the war on brown-skinned people terror.

Terrorism prosecutions shot upwards in the aftermath of 9/11, but have since fallen just as sharply to pre-9/11 levels. More than 90% of terrorism charges are never prosecuted, in many cases because of weak or no evidence. Only 14 people (out of thousands charged) have been sentenced to 20 years or more. More than half get no prison time at all, and for those who do, the median term is a laughable sentence of 28 days - for terrorism, let me remind you.

It's pretty clear what's going on here. The Junior junta is obsessed with fighting a PR campaign to show that they are cracking down on terrorism, but they don't give a rat's ass about actually, you know, fighting terrorism. That's hard work - it's hard work! (heh heh heh) They are inflating the figures by attempting to prosecute every nickel-and-dime petty crime as a deadly international terrorist plot. They are rounding up innocent Muslims on specious and flimsy charges. And when they still can't meet their quota, they create terrorist plots out of whole cloth. Remember that pathetic bunch of losers in Miami? The ones who were going to blow up the Sears Tower but couldn't even raise the Greyhound fare to Chicago?

Not only did [FBI] informers provide money and a meeting place for Batiste and his followers, they gave them video cameras for surveillance as well as cellphones, and suggested that their first target be a Miami FBI office, court records show.

Meanwhile of course, our borders and ports remain wide open. George Bush Junior and his handlers are too busy staging PR stunts to actually do their jobs and make the people of this country safer. And that's without even mentioning the whole new generations of Osama bin Ladens that are being created by the junta's massively illegal, immoral and incompetently waged war against Iraq.

Every time I think the Monkeynuts regime has hit absolute rock bottom in terms of brainless blundering ineptitude, it plunges to new depths of jaw-dropping incompetence and hypocrisy. And yet it continues braying in its smug, self-congratulating way that Democrats are soft on terrorism, and only the Boy Chimperor can save us from dying screaming in our beds. And millions of Merkins buy this bull!

Let's declare stupidity a terrorist offense, then we can ship the Potemkin Village Idiot and his entire courtly retinue to Camp Guano.