••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Sunday, February 05, 2006

loony toons



al qaeda couldn't coordinate attacks better than political cartoonists did this past week.

tom toles provoked a 24-star letter from the joint chiefs of staff, and danish artists started a new wave of paranoid hysteria thruout the islamic world.

it needs to be said that both reactions were unjustified and excessive.

toles' piece is constantly misdescribed as showing a quadruple amputee soldier getting told by doctor rumsfeld that his condition will be listed as "battle-hardened." that false assumption naturally makes a lot of folk feel offended.

in fact, the name on the patient's chart clearly says "us army." he is not one soldier. toles' patient personifies the whole army lying gravely wounded while spinmeister rummy downplays it as usual.

i didn't see any of the danish cartoons till just now. the gutless US media won't reproduce them for fear of getting blamed if rioters damage american property the way they burned embassies.

those arsonists haven't seen the toons either. only one muslim newspaper reprinted them in jordan after violence had already broken out. all the riots have been incited by telling folk that islam and the prophet have been attacked.

as far as i can tell, that's another misinterpretation. the cartoonists appear to have used images of muhammad to criticize terrorists, not their prophet or their religion.

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