Lots of bloggers, myself included, have been moaning about the stupidity and moral vacuity of the "human shield" movement. But it has come to my attention that we are ignoring a prime opportunity here: the possibility that the conglomeration of idiots whose masks were torn off on September the 11th, 2001, are converging (no doubt due to some sub-cellular influence that draws idiots together while leaving people of normal intellectual composition unmoved) into one easily targeted mass. My proof? Deepak Chopra is heading off to Baghdad. Bombs away, I say.
(Via Mrs. du Toit.)
Posted by Andrea Harris at February 28, 2003 12:48 AMIf Chopra were to be blown into tiny quack bits I'd consider my tax burden for this operation a minor expense.
Posted by: Eric Pobirs at February 28, 2003 at 08:03 AMI met a guy locally named Deepak Chopra. He was a gun dealer, and I almost bought a real nice side-by from him.
I tend to think it's not the same Deepak.
Posted by: Ken Summers at February 28, 2003 at 08:44 AMDeepak Chopra has gone to Baghdad?
We are so fucked now. That man feels so good about himself at a cellular level that all of our precision-guided JDAMs will simply bounce off his impenetrable good-energy shielding! And don't forget the Chakra Cannons. Those things can bring down a B-2 like it was a fly in wintertime.
Posted by: Ian Wood at February 28, 2003 at 09:29 AM"That man feels so good about himself at a cellular level that all of our precision-guided JDAMs will simply bounce off his impenetrable good-energy shielding!"
Cool. My nephew is looking for a good science fair project. Let's give it a try and see what happens.
Posted by: Ken Summers at February 28, 2003 at 10:29 PMKen,
These "antiwar" people STILL can't even come up with an original thought: your experiment was tried on people who belived exactly such nonsense, the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, in China 102 years ago. As I recall, the Boxer Rebellion was not exactly a success. ;-)
Posted by: David Jaroslav at February 28, 2003 at 11:08 PMThen there was that witch cult in Africa fairly recently -- was it Winnie Mandela? -- where a special kind of shirt was supposed to make people invulnerable to bullets. And I seem to recall that the Sioux reservation massacre (Wounded Knee?) stemmed from a cult claiming that warriors who did a certain kind of dance would be invulnerable to bullets.
History repeats -- first as tragedy, then as farce. What does it become after that, reality TV?
Posted by: Kevin McGehee at March 1, 2003 at 01:02 PM[slaps forehead]
I knew about the Boxer Rebellion.
[tries to salvage dignity]
But that didn't prove anything about JDAMs.
From Kevin:
"History repeats -- first as tragedy, then as farce. What does it become after that, reality TV?"
Heh, good one!
Posted by: Ken Summers at March 1, 2003 at 01:42 PMI predict a record number of "Darwin Awards" in the near future. :-)
Posted by: CGeib at March 2, 2003 at 12:35 AM