Thursday, March 23, 2006 at 12:41 am by Darryl
Keeping America Safe from Raging Grannies
George W. Bush said in his press conference earlier this week that it is his job to “remember the lessons of September the eleventh.” I can imagine that this might be a tough job. I’d recommend that the government make George’s job easier by creating a new cable channel—The 9/11 Channel. It can be “all War on Terror® all the time.”
Typically I imagine these “lessons” involving foreign fanatics willing to sacrifice their life for their cause. But, the FBI has become cognizant of a new breed of post-9/11 terrorists—terrorists can take cover as “little old ladies” singing in funny hats!
Wow…never again will I look at granny without at least a cursory calculation of whether or not she is an al-Qaeda agent!
From the Seattle PI we learn that :
Seattle’s Raging Grannies, a peace group of older women who dress in outrageous hats and sing protest songs, lifted up their voices in response Tuesday to recent Seattle P-I disclosures that they were in federal anti-terrorism files.
“Oh, we’re a gaggle of grannies, urging you off of your fannies,” they sang at a news conference in the downtown Seattle offices of the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington.
Umm…I don’t known about you, but I can detect some suspiciously insurrectionist language in that song. It is no wonder they give ‘em such a hard time going through airport security. (I’m glad somebody contacted the FBI about this potential terrorist scourge before the Seattle region gets their operations streamlined.)
Again, from the PI:
The ACLU filed [a Freedom of Information] request on its own behalf, Seattle Raging Grannies and other nonviolent religious and political anti-war groups statewide:
The American Friends Service Committee; Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane; People for Peace, Justice, and Healing; Pierce County Truth in Recruiting; Seattle Peace Chorus; Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War; United for Peace of Pierce County; Vancouver For Peace; Western Washington Fellowship of Reconciliation; and the Yakima Valley Peace Advocates Network.
Apparently, terrorist groups thinly disguise their true mission by putting words like friends, service, justice, healing, truth, nonviolent, reconciliation, and a whole lot of peace, peace, peace in their names. It figures.
One of these days, somebody at the FBI will be recognized for his or her genius in accurately profiling the Raging Grannies and the Seattle Peace Chorus as terrorist front organizations.
And, when they make a movie about it, I’m hoping it’ll be a musical!
Saturday, March 25th, 2006 at 7:02 am
Isn’t it time that we recognize the REAL threat to the Homeland?
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Thursday, June 29th, 2006 at 11:37 pm
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 at 10:08 am
I cannot believe this slander about the FBI vs. Raging Grannies…maybe the idea for protest grannies originated in Canada, but then,I really do now want to know when our
President put Canada on the Axis of Evil list..Our Mis-Administration is getting way out of hand!..We really are Grannies!!–and we really are working for peace.!.And if that is a terrorist plot–I guess it can only be against Haliburton and other war profiteers..I think that Bush-Cheney and Rummie should all be deployed to Iraq–and made to go through what our troops are going through!!Amen
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006 at 10:21 am
Well of course. It’s a FUD campaign. Throw suspicion on a group of people who go on record exercising their constitutional right (at least as of now freedom of speech is still on the books) to be against pretty much everything Bush stands for. Anybody who disagrees with Bush is a potential enemy operative. Bush knows his internal enemies, and has already demonstrated that he cares nothing for the constitution and will do anything to sieze and continue in power. Those new domestic secret detention facilities the current administration has commissioned in places like rural Kentucky (while giving gov’t jobs out in economically depressed areas!!) might start filling up. And if your granny suddenly disappears, Al-Qaeda may be blamed, but it’s possible she might be snatched by Cheney’s boys as a potential enemy operative, thanks to Homeland Security legislation and the so-called patriot act. Do you find this scary? I do!!