After the park had been scanned for pressure cooker bombs,
the activists were allowed to file to the designated free speech zones. Oggy
helped with the box containing subversive literature and stickers while Woody
and Robert and Kim brought the food and plates. While they were setting up,
Street Cred Red ambled into the park after a few loud words with the security
screening drone.
Everyone braced themselves for Red’s verbal assault.
“Fellow Comrades of the Revolution! I salute you!” Red gave
a deliberate military salute and began to bear hug everyone in sight. Oggy eyed
him as Red hugged Bella. He lingered too long, thought Oggy, too tightly
embraced her, too sexualized, obviously an implication of molestation. When it came time for Oggy
to get hugged he turned away and said his back had been hurt during the last
protest and arrests. Red smiled through his shaggy beard.
“I’m sure you all heard the latest slander directed at the
revolution. But in case you want a reminder I brought a recording. Red lived in
a house so he had access to many digital wonders that Oggy and the other
homeless activists only heard about. Red assembled a speaker system with a
miniature digital player and as the meal preparations began they were
entertained with the professional pundit known as “The Voice of Reason”. After
a countrified version of the final bars of the Star Spangled Banner followed by a sound
clip of a recent protest, shouting voices, “No peace, no justice!” broken up by
the distinct humming of police drones and cries of pain.
“Those screams? That’s the sound of justice, fellow Americans,” began the
narrative. “That’s the sound of these roaches getting a few thousand volts shot
through their traitorous Liberoach spines. There’s a few videos I’ve linked to
on my freedom sponsored home page. I invite you to watch some of these scumbags
get their serving of justice. These traitors were marching around downtown, breaking windows, shoplifting, burning tires, destroying the livelihood of hard working folks and I think I could make a Christmas Carol from these
screams and play while I’m wrapping presents. See,” here the voice changed
gears to one of the ‘all-knowing sage’. “These are entitled roaches, they are
dirtbags. Filthy. They spread their disease and they know you can’t do anything
about it. They are thumbing their nose at all the hard working true Americans
who go to work and put food on the table for their families. These filthy dirtbags
are molesting your children, they are stealing your tax money, they are trying
to undermine everything that you have worked for, everything that protects you
family. They don’t care because they are diseased, the welfare state has
poisoned their core so they can’t take any responsibility for themselves and
they just want to cripple the economy so everyone is like them. All that
matters to them is destroying America and we’re letting them get away with it.
I guess there isn’t one brave person left in America who will stand up to
disease-ridden scum bags in filthy clothes dragging their pestilence around the
streets, picking up ticks and leeches and bacteria in the sewage system where
they live, and make no mistake about that, these scumbags live and breed in the
sewage system. They couldn’t get the government to give them housing so they
displaced the cockroaches in the sewer and they have no regard for public
health so they bring their diseases and drugs up from the sewers and spread
them on the street. Why isn’t there a public outcry? Why aren’t the lanterns
and pitchforks on the streets every night protecting our community? I guess
people are afraid to stand up to pestilence and disease. I don’t know, America,
I don’t know what happened to the spine of this country to allow these
despicable cockroaches to murder children, to molest little helpless girls, to
defecate on church lawns, to sleep in sewers where they keep their victims. I
don’t know why long haired filthy disgusting worthless street rats are allowed
to breed like cockroaches and not contribute one penny, not one penny,
to the economic strength of the community. They only take and take and take and
spread disease and poison and molest children. America, I am telling you that
this disease will spread until it is too late to beat into submission. These
cockroaches have no morals, they have no religion. They admit to worshiping Satan, they practice satanic rituals with innocent school children,
poisoning the young, because they know that your innocent children can’t resist
them. They only prey on the weak and innocent because they are corrupted to the
core. These rats, they call themselves ‘Activists’, are diseased cockroaches
and their existence vexes me deeply, America, because it means there are no
brave souls left who will stop the spread of pestilence. I guess that’s how I
was raised. My father was a doctor, God rest his soul, so I was raised to
recognize disease and try to cure it, to stop the spread of disease, not ignore
it. And I’m telling you that the disease these gutter punks and merchants of
hate are spreading is threatening everything you cherish. They hate freedom,
they hate liberty, they molest children, they are probably stalking your
daughter right now, but go ahead and do nothing, I can’t be everywhere at once.
All I can do is warn you that the war has already started and we need to
organize, to defend our church, to defend our families. The streets are already
filled to the brim with these gutter rats and their fleas and filth. They smell
like feces because they don’t know enough to wipe their ass. All the drugs that
their parents did when they were infants destroyed their brains. They are no
longer human and you can tell that from one whiff of their odor. Imagine the
putrid rotting mouth of one of these creatures close up against your daughter,
imagine how afraid she would be. And you have a chance to prevent that today,
or mourn your loss tomorrow. You think these cockroaches care if they molest
one of your daughters? They probably don’t even know what they are doing
because the drugs have destroyed their brains. We treat homeless dogs with
compassion and I don’t know why we don’t round these cockroaches up and get rid
of them in the same way. They’ll thank us for it. These cockroaches are lost,
they don’t know any better, they are diseased and their poison has eaten all
their sense away. It’s our responsibility to find a way to put them right, not
ignore them until they breed out of control. There’s still a chance to save our
community from these disgusting cockroaches who live in the sewers but only if
we all work together, all stand up and do something. We have a chance to save
our families from deadly disease. These street rats are full of disease and
they are dangerous. If they attack you then you need to protect yourself. The
police can’t be everywhere. These diseased gutter cockroaches may not go down
if you shoot them once. Remember that. If they attack you, when they attack you
or someone in your family then you must understand that they scumbags are high
on drugs, their brain is numbed. They were diseased to begin with, from birth,
but now they are simply walking zombies carrying disease up and down our
beautiful streets. Please, do something. Don’t let yourself become a
victim of these destructive cockroaches. It’s almost too late and I pray that I
have still reached enough of you to make a difference. Let’s listen to one of
the cockroaches, one who hasn’t had her voice stolen by drugs and disease…”
Oggy and the other activists were only half listening as
they cut carrots and squash for the soup. But the voice they heard no was
Kim’s, so they stopped.
“A flood is on the way, these citizens have petitioned for
help but you can see that they’re being persecuted for their economic status…”
Kim’s recoding had been lifted from a media transcript for
the radio show. The voice of reason returned, “I’m sorry, Folks, I can’t listen
to this babbling cockroach for long. She said herself that she’s organizing
these diseased gutter rats to bring a flood of disease to our community. I’m
sure she is one of the leaders who has been molesting children for her
amusement. Who knows what twisted ceremonies she’s involved in, but she admits
that she’s going to flood our community with pestilence as revenge for not
being allowed to molest children….”
Kim shook her head. “This guy is really out of control. I
was talking about the flood of civil rights abuse that the City Council is
preparing for all the people living on the street. He’s just taking everything
out of context and spinning it to his narrative. Pathetic. Do people really
listen to this crap.
As if on cue a truck drove by the park and a man shouted,
“Gutter rats! Get the fuck out of my town!”
“Well, there’s your answer, Kim,” said Red as he paused the
recording. “This is the guy I’ve been warning you about. He’s been broadcasting
non-stop for weeks and he gave out my phone number so I’m getting threats all
day.”
“You should tell the police, Red. Don’t ignore that.”
“I went into the police station and they were listening to
him. They took my information and said they’d look into it. Then they arrested
me for those outstanding warrants. I bailed out and have a prelim in two weeks.
It was for those two citations that I contested a year ago. Paperwork never got
processed.”
Bob stated, “So you went to the police about death threats
and they arrested you?”
Woody followed that up with, “A fucking firebomb would solve
all that bullshit. A big fucking bomb loaded with TNT. Who is with me?”
“Talk like that doesn’t help anything, Woody. You’re no
better than him.”
“Fight fire with fire. Eventually we’re going to get to that
point but if we don’t act first then there is absolutely no chance of winning.
We can be too late or we can flip the script.”
“Woody, with all these drones around you’re going to get us
all arrested.”
“Those drones have supersonic spy microphones.”
“I don’t give a fuck! Fuck them.”
Oggy sat in a trance, chopping the same carrot over and
over. He was stunned by the vitriol he had heard from that talk show. Calling
everyone diseased cockroaches, poisoned, molesters, living in the gutter? Where
did he get these treacherous lies?
Two pedestrians passed nearby and he heard the woman say,
“street rats…I can smell them from here.” It pained Oggy with embarrassment and
shame, reflecting on his days in school when a drug sniffing dog would pass
before a line of students and the joke was that Oggy smelled like shit so the
dog didn’t want to sniff him. For a few days Oggy had been called “Shit Sniffer”
and games and taunts and mocking songs had been sung at his expense.
“Shit Sniffer Oggy, sitting in a tree.
S-H-I-T-I-N-G.
He smells like shit, never wipes his ass
Oggy the shit Sniffer has no class.”
He could still remember the awful taunting song years later. Oggy
also reflected on his own teasing a girl with buck teeth. He would chew like a
rabbit every time she walked by. Childish but hurtful and he concluded it was a
sign his moral construction was flawed from the start. Everything was poisoned.
Maybe the talk show host was right and he was simply a diseased gutter rat
spreading his poison. A wingless pigeon waddled nearby, pecking at the dry
lawn.
*Hutu Power Radio is where I got the inspiration for this rant. The dehumanizing screeds are very important to genocide movements and I've seen this mostly on the Conservative media side and wanna-be Conservative pundits directed toward Liberals and gays, blacks, immigrants, women,, Muslims. Liberal media merely dehumanize Conservatives. I'm guilty of this in my darker moments. But the historical precedent is abundant: genocide needs antagonists and usually the hate pundits will encode their propaganda and act bewildered when someone takes it seriously.
"All liberals need to be exterminated. The President has betrayed America...etc, etc...impeach, torture...Oh, but we don't mean to encourage violence. No! Where did you get that idea? We're merely expressing our opinion, which is protected by the constitution that we renounced when we stated our desire to secede from the union, but that we still want protection from because we're hypocrites."
There's a lot of crazy running free these days.
*Hutu Power Radio is where I got the inspiration for this rant. The dehumanizing screeds are very important to genocide movements and I've seen this mostly on the Conservative media side and wanna-be Conservative pundits directed toward Liberals and gays, blacks, immigrants, women,, Muslims. Liberal media merely dehumanize Conservatives. I'm guilty of this in my darker moments. But the historical precedent is abundant: genocide needs antagonists and usually the hate pundits will encode their propaganda and act bewildered when someone takes it seriously.
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"All liberals need to be exterminated. The President has betrayed America...etc, etc...impeach, torture...Oh, but we don't mean to encourage violence. No! Where did you get that idea? We're merely expressing our opinion, which is protected by the constitution that we renounced when we stated our desire to secede from the union, but that we still want protection from because we're hypocrites."
There's a lot of crazy running free these days.
