Dyer proposes a game where you replace the word "terrorist" (why the scare quotes, are they not terrorists?) in Homeland Security releases with some other frightening word.
...While we have raised the threat level for the financial services sector in the affected communities, the rest of the nation remains at an elevated, or code yellow, risk of vampire attack...The vampires should know (that) in this country, this kind of information, while startling, is not stifling...
It works just as well if you substitute the word "werewolves" or "zombies".
I'm sorry, I didn't relize that the Monster Movie Gang declared war on the West. I must have missed the news when the Mummies attacked the World Trade Center in '93. Or when the Werewolves attacked the USS Cole. Or when Frankenstein attacked the US Embassy in Yemen. Do I even need to mention 9/11, 3/11? Even if we refuse to acknowledge that we are at war with Islamofacists, these terrorists keep on killing.
Let's ignore this for a moment and see what the greater threat is:
What you should not be able to do is to portray terrorism as the greatest danger facing Americans today. Americans face a bigger risk of drowning in the bath than of being killed by terrorists, and a far greater risk of dying by falling down the stairs.
Even in the tragic month of September 2001, just as many Americans died in highway accidents as from terrorist attacks, and almost as many dies of gunshot wounds.
Dyer's solution, if I am to read between the lines is to ignore it and it (the threat from terrorists) will go away. Because, as we finally get to it, the real threat is the Office of Homeland Security and by extension the Bush Administration.
When the loaded "homeland" word starts being used by official circles in any language, you can already hear the symbolic jackboots marching in the distance.
A true Mooreism. Get you to think about Ridge (and Bush). Get you to think about Nazis. And let the mind make it's own connection. Slander without actually doing so. It is like Ted Kennedy at the Democratic Convention: "The only thing to fear is four more years of George W. Bush". If Kennedy and Dyer are correct, why is Senator Kerry working so hard to prove that he is "Reporting for Duty"?
