Monday, March 23, 2009

Dick Cheney Believes There Are Witches in Gambia

As some who have commented already have alluded to, placing the nearly 1 in 5 Americans who ostensibly still support the neo-cons and their agenda in the same camp as those who would support the search, arrest and subsequent trial of "witches" is not an altogether distant stretch. Although you are most certainly invoking a level of satire into your suggestion, the tragic mistakes of late-fifteenth century Salem, Mass. are not far removed from the mindsets of hundreds of thousands of twenty-first century Americans (many of whom, sadly, are surely wholly unaware of the existence of the Salem Witch Trials). If something akin to a series of "witch trials" happened today in, say, Easley, South Carolina, or Starkville, Mississippi, or anywhere else in America's bible-belt, I wouldn't be at all surprised to see many media outlets giving the event "serious" coverage while right-wing radio sings a chorus of support for the "extermination" of those who would be a threat to all of their fellow "God-fearing" Americans.
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