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SABOTAGE


                                              January 08, 2006

Once upon a time I knew a young
struggling animator, who had
scored a gig with the Pentacostal
Church to produce some religious
programming.
                                 
He looked at it as his opportunity to
get back at the Church for screwing       
him over/up.                              
                                           
His goal was to make sure that the main    
characters were so syrypy sweet that       
the kids could only identify with his      
villainous, grumpy, "Judas".               
                                           

     Since then, I learned to
     look at commissioned art
     with a new eye.
                                                     Near the gate of
     If it often seems so incredibly                 the Idaho National
     inept that it undercuts it's                    Engineering Lab,
     apparent goal... but that might                 a large billboard
     not exactly be unintentional.                   promotes the message
                                                     "Security Keeps
                                                     America Safe!"

                                                     The illustration
                                                     shows a star-
                                                     spangled US
                                                     silhouette with
                                                     a heavy chain
                                                     stretched
                                                     tightly across
                                                     it, a lock dangling
                                                     in the middle...

                                                     "Security Keeps
                                                     America in Chains"?





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