Jet Lag

Who's fooling whom here? I mean, coming in the front door when the back one is available is a new strategy for the Bush administration, isn't it?

After all, as has been evidenced lately, clandestine domestic spying, a back door activity, is the modus operandi of this regime.

Knocking on the front door with phony excuses is not their style.

Or is the Google case just a matter of jet lag? It was a year ago when the scenario began to unfold.

It is publicly known that Bush's Bullies have subpoenaed confidential records from companies across the United States. It is equally well known that they forced gag orders on these companies. "If you tell anyone what we are doing here, we will retaliate."

( Label you a terrorist sympathizer, levy fines which will bankrupt your business, put you in jail -- you know, minor consequences like these.)

So the fact that Bush's Bullies actually made up an excuse to requisition the Google database caught my attention.

Can't you just see the plot unfolding? Probably went something like this:

At a Private Conference
One Bully Cohort to Another: "How are we ever going to sell this bill of goods? "

Cohort's Reply: "What about protecting the public from terrorists? That line has been working pretty well for us."

Third Bully Cohort: "Let's not overuse it. If we get into a fix later, the terrorist ploy will work better if it's not shopworn now. The smut angle aught-a work here. Attack the porn law and we'll have the public eating out of our hand. We've fooled them with our smut attacks before and they'll be just as gullible now."

Email Resulting From Private Conference: Bush's Bullies to Google:
"Ah, honestly! fellas, it doesn't matter what the Supreme Court says. They were a bunch of dummies to strike down the porn law. Now, as you know we, over here in the President's Office, are above the law so here's what we're going to do. Google, you give us your database so we can go out there and kill those dirty porn dealers."

Google's Email Replying to Bush's Bullies':
"Yo! There's ethics involved here. Violating the privacy rights of our users is unethical. Unconstitutional, even. Robbing folks of their civil liberties is against our company policy."

Reply from Bush's Bullies:
"Hey, listen up fishbait, we're the kingpins here. There will be dire consequences if you don't comply. Catch our drift?"

Yep! That's just how the plot unfolded, all right. By the time it hit the Press a year later, all was said and done 'cept the shouting.

We gotta give Bush's Bullies some credit, though. For being flexible. Heck, if entering by the front door doesn't work, they'll creep around to the back door and enter there.

It's the screen door that will eventually give them problems. You know, the smoke screen variety. The Bush's Bullies' vaporous smog is already so thick that the gullible public is beginning to question their motives.

It won't be long at all til folks realize: Where there's smoke, there's WMD's.

Oops! Sorry about that. For a minute there smoke got in my eye. That's actually WMAD's. Weapons of Mass American Destruction.
Jet Lag © 2006 Chaeli Lee Sullivan