James Lileks Asks An Important Question

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" Right now I have a browser window open to Fark, and a T-shirt ad shows Bush’s face with the logo 'American Psycho.' What else do you need to know? As Teddy Kennedy said in his convention speech: 'The only thing we have to fear is four more years of George Bush.' It’s really quite simple, isn’t it? We live in a manufactured climate of fear ginned up by war-crazed neocon overlords. There is no threat. The only thing we have to fear is Bush, who sits as we speak in the Oval Office sucking the marrow from Whoopi’s shin-bones. If so, I wonder why anyone agreed to the stringent security policies that characterize this year’s conventions. Why the bomb-sniffing dogs? Why the snipers? Why the metal detectors, the invasive inspection of bags? Is it all an elaborate defense against Bush crashing the party and setting off a bomb belt, shouting God is Great, y’all!No, they’re fearful of something else.

"Damned if I know what, though. Damned if I know."