[attrition] Bumper Sticker 101

[security curmudgeon]

Great rant courtesy of KGO.

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There are bumper stickers espousing views that one may disagree with, but 
which do so in a clever way. Then there are those that are just clueless.

Today's candidate is a red white and blue (gotta be patriotic, because all 
the evil-doers clearly aren't) bumper sticker stating

Abortion Is the ULTIMATE Terrorism!

If a member of the the National Right To Life League sees this truck, they 
ought to pull the driver over, take out a dictionary and teach this bozo 
about the concept that words have specific meanings, and if one strings 
those meanings together in incongruous ways, it doesn't help The Cause - 
it simply makes those who share The Cause look ill-educated and foolish.

Let's review. Terrorism is the use of violence or the threat of violence 
to achieve a political end. I know that the current administration finds 
it fashionable to expand the definition of "terrorist" and "terrorism" to 
include "anything that Dubya doesn't like", but that's the basic 
by-the-book concept. Use of violence or fear for profit or personal gain - 
that's extortion. Use of threat of embarrassment or other non-violent harm 
for personal gain - that's blackmail. With me so far? Let's review - 
terrorism = violence and/or fear, for political motive.

Now let me see. Abortion as not just terrorism, but the ULTIMATE 
terrorism. HMMMM. Forced abortions of abortions among a given population 
might be a human rights violation, but it really wouldn't work as 
terrorism.

I've got it! Imagine a video of a woman in a hospital smock, lying on an 
examining table with her feet in the stirrups and her legs spread. Shaky, 
hand-held video (discretely filmed from the side, so as not to offend by 
showing any "naughty bits"). She's looking sideways into the camera, with 
a crazed look on her face - that's so we know she's serious. She says "I 
demand the release of all the political prisoners in Iraq, or Doc here 
<Doc nervously sticks his head in the frame and waves> is going to ABORT 
THIS FETUS!" Yeah, that's gonna really happen. The mere thought has me 
trembling in my boots.

Forget the fact that most women who have abortions don't want anybody to 
know. Kinda makes it hard to instill enough fear and terror to cause 
political change if one isn't willing to publicize the threat. Forget the 
fact that around the world, a good portion of the population would be 
saying "Go for it, girl - keep THE MAN out of your reproductive choices!" 
- not exactly the expression of fear that we're shooting for. Don't let 
any of that get in the way of one's terrorist objectives.

Maybe the bumper sticker is an expression of the "ultimate fear" of those 
who put it on their vehicles - the threat of having their offspring ripped 
from their womb. Or maybe it's some crypto-rape-fantasty thing that they 
don't want to own up to - nah, let's not go there.

In any case, it should be obvious to everybody that the scenario above is 
the REAL threat. It'll trump flying planes into buildings, beheading 
prisoners, blowing things up, videos of scared victims-to-be pleading for 
their lives, and all the rest. This truly is the ULTIMATE terrorism.


But then, after the Schiavo Circus came to town, maybe I'm wrong - maybe 
this WOULD work as the ULTIMATE terrorism, at least in some circles.

And lest anybody think that the idiocy is isolated to one corner of the 
political trade space, please consult darned near *anything* by PETA for 
proof that the left can be borderline illiterately loony, too.

KGO