Pro-Terrorists
This man is standing outside by the street waving a “Bush / Cheney” poster. An exercise in gloating, I suppose. He also has a second sign that he doesn’t have completely up. I go up to try to make out what it says, squinting and moving my head sideways. I gesture to him to raise the damned thing, but he doesn’t. What I make out: “I Believe” list of crossed-out terms “Whatever You Call Yourselves Are Pro-Terrorist.”
I feel insulted. Not by the political expression, but because this is simply the meekest display of inflamatary political speech imaginable. Display Yourself, Asshole!
It occurs to me that the conspiracy theory (and there’s nothing wrong with conspiracy theory, since the world runs off of conspiracies) that a process of Diebold Computer scamming in Ohio and Florida, provisional balloting nonsense, and such stole the election for Bush, which ties in with the discreprency between the initial exit polling and the vote tally — the sort of official explanation for the discreprency that the Bush faction were more weary of talking to the pollsters for some reason starts to make a bit of sense here. It seems counterintuitive to imagine the “redneck voter” is afraid to share his vote, but here it is: this guy is not waving his inflamatary sign.
A man sitting in Pioneer Square waving a sign to “blackboxvoting.com, and another guy waving a sign saying “Bush Is A Terrorist”. Someone walks by, turns around to gesture at his shirt and give a thumbs up sign. The shirt says “Dumb And Dumber” with pictures of the elder and the lesser Bush.
I defend the elder Bush, as these things go. Listen to how Bush reacted in Act Two of this program. Compare that to Bush’s last press confrerence (seemingly the first in a month), where he extorts the press on “the will of the people” to “enforce the one-question rule.”
And so it goes…