[extropy-chat] the SPP (comedy)

[Al Brooks]

The uniform of choice is Birkenstocks & T-shirts. And signboards: "US OUT OF IRAQ"; "Down With The War"; "Stop Globalization"; "Protect Family Farms, Oppose Big Agribusiness"; "No More Food!".  
Onward environmentalist peace activists, marching as to war, with a pair of Birkenstocks marching on before. These rallies have been episodic for forty years, they have become hypostasized, enough to set your watch by, "the protest is at 2.00, right after lunch". When modern protests first began they were exciting, edgy, enough to make the blood of policemen boil sometimes, now the cops just reach for a donut, wave & smile at the protesters. Cop: "Hi Abbie, hi Jerry, how are the wives?". And now we see Cindy Sheehan is the wave of the future
-- the Single Person Protest member. 
The only clubbing the Single Protester risks is a microphone accidentally bouncing off her skull while she is being interviewed by a half dozen networks. During & after WWII Audie Murphy was celebrated for being a war hero, but times have changed. Now Cindy Sheehan is celebrated for being the MOMMY of a war hero; headline in the paper, 'Grieving Angry Mama Whines On TV'. By the look on her face you might expect her to think Bush ought to have exited his ranch, marched up to her and pinned a medal on her breast. And after all the insults Sheehan dumped on Bush, she expects Bush to schedule an audience with her so she can ask him why he killed her son? If you insult someone you consider to be Idi Amin, do you think Amin is going to invite you for dinner? 
No wonder Casey Sheehan volunteered for the Service. He wanted to get away from a certain somebody in his life.





















		
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