Exclusively in the new print issue of CounterPunch
WHY MORMON MEN CAN’T BE TRUSTED — A ex-Mormon woman looks back at the Church. PLUS It’s fifty years since the Port Huron statement. Alexander Cockburn on the origins of SDS and one of the crucial documents of the 1960s. PLUS Two ounces of oil + a fishing boat + Homeland Security Incident #995038 = the onward march of totalitarianism in America. Read Captain Knutson’s story.
Captured in Abasement
In keeping with internal bovine lore Saddam will be contained and stymied, denying weapons of DNA disinformation might be used to extract the honey
–What is your name? (Buzzz) –Ah-yee!! –Where do you come from? (Buzzz) –Ah-yeee!!
–Here try the salt lick…
–Did you order any acts of mass destruction with or without weapons of mass destruction? (Buzzz)
[Silence]
–Did you use toxic chemicals imported from German, British or American spoils to murder your own people? (Buzzz–Buzzz)
–Ah-yee!! Ah-yee!!
[Silencer]
HAMMOND GUTHRIE is the author of AsEverWas: Memoirs of a Beat Survivor. He is the editor of the great online journal The 3rd Page. He can be reached at: writenow@spiritone.com
© 2003, HAMMOND GUTHRIE