Returning to our earlier story on the paranoia of the US government, today we learn of the suspicion the military holds about certain websites. McClatchy reports:
“The Defense Department, traditionally a leading source of media leaks, is still setting up its program, but it has taken numerous steps. They include creating a unit that reviews news reports every day for leaks of classified defense information and implementing new training courses to teach employees how to recognize security risks, including ‘high-risk’ and ‘disruptive’ behaviors among co-workers, according to Defense Department documents reviewed by McClatchy.
“‘It’s about people’s profiles, their approach to work, how they interact with management. Are they cheery? Are they looking at Salon.com or The Onion during their lunch break? This is about The Stepford Wives,’ said a second senior Pentagon official, referring to online publications and a 1975 movie about robotically docile housewives. The official said he wanted to remain anonymous to avoid being punished for criticizing the program.”
Salon political reporter Alex Seitz-Wald issued the following statement:
“I think I speak for many here when I say that we are honored to be considered ‘disruptive’, and sincerely thank any brave spy or soldier who dares read the subversive material we publish on the Internet’s best p-rn Tumblrs.”
The Onion has previously asked Americans what they think of US spying.
Enemies of the state, all of them.
So what will we be allowed to find funny, when they’ve achieved their objective?
Have they thought about their germinal role in bringing about this state of emergency – there wouldn’t be near as much to laugh at if they didn’t self-parody as such self-obsessed prevaricating obfuscating clowns so absorbed in their own omnipotence?
Having replaced one set of “terrorists” with their own; salvaged freedom to their bird-cage – in their “drag” corsetry.
Heaven help us if their budget was trimmed to as necessary – they couldn’t put on a show like this? And politicians and the media wouldn’t be able to scare the crap out of the skittish majority – for profit and votes?
It’s hard to take the US seriously when they can’t even spell ‘defence’ correctly.
Actually, it’s impossible to take them seriously, fullstop.
It is an axiom that the more totalitarian a mindset, the less it understands humour.