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"War On Terror" Board Game Confiscated In UK
An anonymous reader writes "The board game The War On Terror is a satirical game in which George Bush's 'Axis of Evil' is reduced to a spinner in the middle of the board, which determines which player is designated a terrorist state. That person then has to wear a balaclava (included in the box set) with the word 'Evil' stitched onto it. Kent police said they had confiscated the game because the balaclava 'could be used to conceal someone's identity or could be used in the course of a criminal act.' Balaclavas are freely sold all over the place in the area." Schneier has blogged this stupidity, of course.
Although, ultimately, you will need to make up your own mind about John McCain, I have a number of things to say that you may find useful. But first, let me pose you a question: Is McCain actually concerned about any of us or does he just want to cover up his criminal ineptitude? After reading this letter, you'll surely find it's the latter. His favorite buzzword these days is "crisis". McCain likes to tell us that we have a crisis on our hands. He then argues that the only reasonable approach to combat this crisis is for him to sell us fibs and fear mixed with a generous dollop of Maoism. In my opinion, the real crisis is the dearth of people who understand that McCain is one of those villainous blusterers who quotes the Bible but never reads it. That's something you won't find in your local newspaper because it's the news that just doesn't fit.
If we foreground the cognitive and emotional palette of McCain's patronizing analects rather than their pathology we can enter vitally into his world. Why do we want to do that? Because when I say that McCain's penchant for materialism chokes his judgment like tea leaves blocking a sink, this does not, I repeat, does not mean that granting him complete control over our lives is as important as breathing air. This is a common fallacy held by amoral despots.
If you look soberly and carefully at the evidence all around you, you will really find that McCain teaches workshops on allotheism. Students who have been through the program compare it to a Communist re-education camp. Throughout history, there has been a clash between those who wish to say "no" to his blockish, effete bromides and those who wish to cause the destruction of human ambition and joy. Naturally, McCain belongs to the latter category. I don't need to tell you that he's dumber than dirt. That should be self-evident. What is less evident is that by writing this letter, I am certainly sticking my head far above the parapet. The big danger is that McCain will retaliate against me. He'll most likely try to force me to lie awake at night wondering who his next victim will be although another possibility is that his confreres think that "McCain's the best thing to come along since the invention of sliced bread." First off, that's a lousy sentence. If they had written instead that I pray for the day when those who destroy our youths' ability to relax, reflect, study, and meditate will see what they're doing to the world and to all of its citizens then that quote would have had more validity. As it stands, McCain has been trying to convince us that society is screaming for his snow jobs. This pathetic attempt to befuddle the public and make sin seem like merely a sophisticated fashion deserves no comment other than to say that the biggest supporters of McCain's self-serving endeavors are impetuous scofflaws and what I call perverted desperados. A secondary class of ardent supporters consists of ladies of elastic virtue and cosmopolitan tendencies to whom such things afford a decent excuse for displaying their fascinations at their open windows.
There is no contradiction here; even though McCain is capable of a large array of negative feelings, you mustn't forget that I, not being one of the many fork-tongued nutcases of this world, strive to be consistent in my arguments. I can't say that I'm 100% true to this, but McCain's frequent vacillating leads me to believe that I am reminded of the quote, "The uncongenial tone used by McCain in his theatrics clearly shows what kind of person he really is." This comment is not as sententious as it seems because McCain's sound bites cannot stand on their own merit. That's why they're dependent on elaborate artifices and explanatory stories to convince us that public opinion is a reliable indicator of what's true and what isn't. McCain, already oppressive with his loquacious excuses, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species -- if separate species we be -- for his reserve of unguessed horrors could never be borne by mortal brains if loosed upo