Wednesday, June 08, 2005

184. the goat walks

You wonder
why all these
low-ranking individuals,
caught on camera,
end up in jail
while the people
who set them up,
encouraged them,
move on
to higher command.

Oops! There goes
Lynddie England.

Bad apples
in an
otherwise
pure
military
dispensation?

Yep.

That's the way
we deal
with
embarrassment.

As if
Gitmo and Abu Ghraib
weren't enough,
now we have
Amnesty bloody
International
speaking
out of turn.

These
bleeding hearts, these
non-team players
make you
want to
pass
some new laws
that will
shut them up
forever.

The country
needs
half-formed idiots
from inner cities,
from trailer parks
in godforsaken
wastelands,
and other places
of bitter
deprivation

in order
to have someone
to throw
in jail
when things
go wrong.

An anthropo
semi-logical
tight-wired social
environment
makes sense
only
when you follow
the money.