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Intro -- LURCH #16
UP AGAINST THE WALL, Motherfucker.... That was the slogan way back, the rallying cry of longhaired malcontents who thought they were intimidating somebody, or starting a revolution. Right. Now we're co-opting it as a motto for enforcement. Tell you what -- all right that's it, get on the floor, face down. DOWN. You better believe this is loaded. Tell you what -- if you can tell me why I arrested you, excuse me detained you (no actual arrest means we don't have to worry about procedure), I'll let you go. Think about it. FACE DOWN. While you're waiting, here's another little brain teaser: is the "War on Terrorism(TM)" a cover for what we're doing to the Bill of Rights, or is our attack on civil rights a distraction from the war -- wars. Pick one: war on Islam, war on terror, war on drugs, war on taxes, war on the poor, war against corporate regulation. Taken all together it's our official policy: a War on Evil. And you, poor sap, you must realize by now that this exercise is part of that. Maybe it was your phone calls, maybe it was something you wrote in an e-mail, maybe expressing your doubts too loudly, or maybe it was the color of your skin; whatever, it put you on the wrong side of the line, you are part of the problem, not part of the solution. Look. I don't want to have to keep stepping on your face, so do yourself a favor and stop trying to look up at me. I'm sure by now you've got a couple of ideas about why we picked you up. It's just the new operating procedure, the business of America. And you seem like an intelligent person, so I don't need to tell you -- the business of America is None of Your Business.... *** This is the 16th issue of LURCH Magazine, a Brooklyn institution of literary sedition and counter-counter intelligence.
Although it's none of your business, this magazine covers some important ground, from the fast food threat 90 miles off
our shores to relocating to a Scottish flophouse, from the kings of karaoke to the king of the New York streets, and from
the foundations of empire to found pornography. Not to mention a whole lot more signifyin' monkey business....
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