~ would it not be simpler, happier medium to ‘federalize’ airport security personnel than to continue with the disinterested wage slaves who must be backed up by 6,000 national guardspersons? add to that: the 25% more guards that bush has decided to make available.

~ if there arose a case in which a, say, bomb brought down a plane in rockaway, queens, we wonder if the u.s. government would claim findings that the crash was actually due to ‘mechanical failures’, lest the public be reminded that not much security has been added to commercial aviation since september 11, 2001. naturally, the angry red planet does not want to fall victim to irrational fears of terrorism, nor do we wish to encourage such fears in others. however, we are timelessly more paranoid about lies from the u.s. government than we are worried about trying to adhere to the appropriate response to the news – that response being rationalized by the conflict between the immediate connections with the past against the it with the admonitions of those who let you know that if you suspect terrorism, then the terrorists have already won. anyway, it is probably just a routine take-off crash. colin powell said so. then, why were all the airports closed this morning?

~ the northern alliance is claiming that 40 commanders and 1,200 fighters have defected from the taliban. just last week, these ‘defectors’ were defending a regime that has systematically destroyed human rights and sponsors a network of terrorists. have they suddenly had an epiphany, awakening to the error of their ways? or are they just running to the side that currently is not being pounded by the united states air force and navy?

if the northern alliance can cozy up to the fanatics who defended that breed of scum so quickly, how can they be expected to be cool when it is time to construct a new system of ordering society?

if the northern alliance wants to topple the taliban, more power to them; that makes more sense to me than having the u.s. or russia meddling – since i doubt either of these powers seem like they would work strongly for the ‘establishment’ of anarcho-syndicalism [w]. but if they are going to turn out to be as big of a group of assholes to the afghan people, as rawa [w] seems to indicate, i would rather they didn’t do it with the help of u.s. funding, troops, and training. i know that the u.s. needs to team up with some local forces in order to facilitate operations and to ensure the safety of u.s. soldiers, but it would be a whole lot cooler if the northern alliance is not just intent on making a deal of trading osama and some of his cronies in exchange for u.s. support of their own military regime.

~ remember: fight war, not wars…

~ if you are at all concerned at the possibility of new restrictions on civil liberties in the united states brought by the ‘uniting and strengthening america act’, then peep the new action alert online at aclu.org. especially frightening is ‘section 213’, which would allow the badge to inspect a house or apartment in secret. luckily, senator feingold is intending to amend this, as reported in yahoo news [w].

~ when paul mccartney releases a single to benefit world trade center relief efforts, he seems like a decent guy; when Michael Jackson does it, he seems like a child molester.

~ we still have not reached a conclusion concerning the finale of peter parker #35…

~ “The storm of airplanes will not stop. There are thousands of young people who look forward to death like the Americans look forward to life.”

-spokesman for al-Qaida

damn. pretty bleak view. can’t we airdrop some xboxes or something for these kids?

~ take care to notice that our url is not www.theangryredplanet.com [w]

~ if photographs are considered idolatry by the taliban, why is osama bin laden allowed to have his face printed on the t-shirts peddled by taliban supporters? for that matter, since teaching english is also forbidden, why are the t-shirt slogans written in english? maybe the assumption is that only infidels will be looking at the shirts. since afghanistan has a literacy rate of 30%, it is safe to assume that 2/3 of the taliban cops will not realize this. or, perhaps the t-shirt hawkers are secretly thankful they live in the liberal state of pakistan, because the guys they are praising would bust their chops if they caught them breaking the rules.

~ are americans supposed to be offended by a burning u.s. flag? we can do that here if we want to, for pete’s sake. let’s see some ‘militants’ with the balls to burn their own flag.

~ sigh…when do we get back to the class war?

~ ‘america will never dream or know or taste security or safety’

pretty tough words for a guy who spends his nights hiding in a freaking cave.

~ open letter to the cia:

please stop getting ‘our’ u.a.v.’s shot down. if you really need to waste the money (for the defense economy), the angry red planet can find a better use at $3.2 million a pop.

~ so there are protesters already being killed at g8; the angry red planet hereby authorizes open season on cops – genoan or otherwise.

~ it’s 4am. are the kids down the street going to run out of firecrackers anytime soon?…

~ it looks like we were wrong about being allowed to settle into our new offices; the crooked landlords, after taking our deposit, are hesitating and fabricating reasons and excuses as to why we can’t move into the space. once again we are meeting to move in tomorrow, but this time there is no more time for us to wait in the space we are currently dwelling. either we get the space tomorrow, or the situation comes to an dramatically unfortunate development, such as the compromise of the angry red planet’s official doctrine of pacificism.