Michael Moore

Started by MacGuffin, January 08, 2003, 03:27:41 PM

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I think the whole thing about OBL getting a trial or not is not a decision based on fairness or justice, but rather one with concern about what he symbolizes. There'd be riots from his followers, there'd be toothless teabaggers clamoring to get on TV and wave their pitchforks, Sarah Palin would call the whole exercise "redynent"... No one wants to see that.

It's a big fucking mess, of course it is. People from around the world, from across the many political spectrums are debating the issues surrounding his death, surrounding the covert operation, surrounding the celebrations which followed, surrounding the burial at sea, etc... The way it went down was the closest thing possible to a quick and clean summation of the whole deal. Practically, it was for the best.
He held on. The dolphin and all the rest of its pod turned and swam out to sea, and still he held on. This is it, he thought. Then he remembered that they were air-breathers too. It was going to be all right.