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Tuesday, July 26, 2005
What's in a Name?
I have always felt that insurgent terrorists were merely statists in the audition phase. For those who like poetic arguments, and strange connections, there is an interesting illustration of this.
What mystical terrorism do we fear? The lone walking explosive with a religious sense of virtue ready to murder his chosen enemy. He carries his explosive in a backpack or knapsack.
What was the most occult fearsome state terror squad? Perhaps it was Haitian dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier's special police force that went by the infamous voodoo-derived name the "Tonton Macoutes".
That terror force had a curiously unthreatening name, when considered literally, despite its origin in a Christmas voodoo folk-villain, a Santa Claus from hell who who punished evil children. The unthreatening name, however, has become an even more apt name of political terror and murder than its founder might have dreamed:
"Uncle Knapsack"
Not logical, but ironically poetic, doncha think?
I have always felt that insurgent terrorists were merely statists in the audition phase. For those who like poetic arguments, and strange connections, there is an interesting illustration of this.
What mystical terrorism do we fear? The lone walking explosive with a religious sense of virtue ready to murder his chosen enemy. He carries his explosive in a backpack or knapsack.
What was the most occult fearsome state terror squad? Perhaps it was Haitian dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier's special police force that went by the infamous voodoo-derived name the "Tonton Macoutes".
That terror force had a curiously unthreatening name, when considered literally, despite its origin in a Christmas voodoo folk-villain, a Santa Claus from hell who who punished evil children. The unthreatening name, however, has become an even more apt name of political terror and murder than its founder might have dreamed:
"Uncle Knapsack"
Not logical, but ironically poetic, doncha think?
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