rotten goddamn propaganda. vomit consisting of pig shit & herpes blister juice. ( )

This is a fascinating artifact of the Bush administration and its now famous effort to disseminate fear as a political expedient.
The simplistic line art illustrations, reminiscent of an airline emergency procedures card, are a tragicomic indication of the governments estimation of our docility, our incapacity to think critically and absorb information, and our feelings of vulnerability. My favorite is an illustration of a two dimensional figure with trance-like vision lines, permanently cast from his eyes to his automobile with a caption: "Unless your vehicle is under constant guard, there is a danger of it being rigged with a bomb."

What is even more stimulating than contemplating the scale of the manipulation that this implies, is to ponder what the process of creating such a work must have been. I mean, some civil servant actually got paid to sit around and dream this stuff up! ( )