America, Fuck Yeah!
[Title inspired by J. DeVoy at the Legal Satyricon, Scott Greenfield at Simple Justice, and of course Trey Parker and Matt Stone.]
A skeptic might theorize that Osama bin Laden is in fact not dead but alive and well in the CIA witness protection program somewhere. After all, the best evidence of his death has already been buried at sea, and U.S. officials are trying to decide whether a photo they have of his corpse is just too graphic to release. After all, Osama has been great for government business over the last ten years. His “disappearance” now won’t undo or slow down any of that, and the timing couldn’t be better for Obama.
I myself don’t go so far (despite the U.S. government’s habit of telling outrageous lies to “its” people). I merely note that the killing of bin Laden by Team America doesn’t make me feel any safer. Quite the opposite. And the threat of reprisals for his death is already being used by U.S. officials to remind us how much we need them.
You know what would make me feel safer? If the government which purports to act in my name stopped fucking with people all over the world.
“Governments don’t live together, people live together.” (H/T Bryan Brown at the ArchAngel Institute.)
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