trotting out phantom osama is losing its fear market, but no fear they'll try and pin a target on someone.

the problem is they are outnumbered, and they know it, as they also know how their international star would tumble if they went all medieval more than they already do. only china imprisons more of its own!

they are painted into a corner, so they have to go through the motions, but if the abuse of the public goes too far, everyone knows there are enough hotheads to throw themselves into the front lines, and the mess would be the crappiest PR in the world, especially after the decades of sanctimony about human rights.

what if other countries boycotted the USA in protest at their internal brutality?

it could happen, if they choose the pariah path. what are they going to do, anklebracelet liberal grannies? of all the social environments for a violent coup and martial law, the USA would be far the messiest, when you consider the amount of hardware, and even a slice of the population that is so brainwashed that violence is the solution to all problems, (if not the summum bonum of human endeavour), that they will cheer it on from behind their tvs. they can't wait for the blood to flow.

i blame this on the moronic level of tv and junk food, but it's too late for diagnosis now, it's damage limitation time...

turning the kyber pass into an ashtray would only keep the peeps ra-ra-ing for a while. sooner or later they'll have to face the music, and locking up the nicest, friendliest, most constructive people in the community, just because they have dissent on their minds, will call for a complete re-engineering of what it means to be an american TM, involving airbrushing out all its founding fathers for a start, all its hoariest myths.

there aren't enough thugs to lock up everyone who 'thinks different', at a certain point the sheer absurdity will cause the public to disarm these budding nazis, for everyone's good. they can only go so far.

remember the whole world is watching now... we've got your backs.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~