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How does one explain that in 2010,
Stone Age thinking still garners media headlines?
Fear is the driving force behind
“everyone who is not like me is the enemy.”

If you don’t believe in Wall Street, you are the enemy.
If you don’t believe in Capitalism, you are the enemy.
If you don’t believe in Halliburton, you are the enemy.
If you don’t believe in Reaganomics, you are the enemy.
If you don’t watch Fox News every night, you are the enemy.
If you don’t love cuddly grizzly mommas, you are the enemy.
If you are not born again, you are the enemy.
If you don’t believe in heaven as the reward, you are the enemy.
If you don’t believe in the wisdom of war, you are the enemy.
If you don’t believe in the “final solution”, you are the enemy.

If you are gay, you are the enemy.
If you are black, you are the enemy.
If you are poor, you are the enemy.
If you are Islam, you are the enemy.
If you are a witch, you are the enemy.
If you believe in global warming, you are the enemy.
If you believe in Universal Health Care, you are the enemy.
If you use condoms or masturbate, you are the enemy.
If you believe in a woman’s right to choose, you are the enemy.
If you believe peace and love are the answer, you are the enemy.

In this world’s dramatic turns of events,
drinking tea with the KKK,
exhorting Civil War mentality and feigning patriotism
steals the ratings.


Woodstock, New York
October 6, 2010