Most of this post went out yesterday, a day of moral reckoning,
so-to-speak, but must have gotten lost in Sunday-cyber-space.
Apologies if it turns up at a latter date...
...perhaps it was a carnivore-canapé....
I probably would not even have realized it didn't get posted to Vo
(yes it's that earth-shaking) except for reading Richard's comment
about morality just now. Actually that comment was more like a
reminiscence of better days - as the USA/England have - in the
last 5 years - managed to totally eradicate any evidence for a
moral superiority over the rest of the world (if indeed we have
enjoyed it all since 1945).
Even Germany managed to take the high-road in the Middle East,
when we succumbed to blood-lust; and the worst part is that most
of our abject-immorality in carrying out a brain-dead oil-war
(under false pretenses) was aided and abetted by the Religious
Right (many of the very same hypocrites who once called themselves
the moral majority). These Bible-thumpers now have the blood of
thousands of innocent non-combatants on their hands.
To their credit, many of them have belatedly realized how they
were duped by the Neo-Cons, and many will hopefully stay out of
the political arena next time around.
This week's lesson in Poli-Sci 101 is not that kind of
finger-pointing recrimination - exactly - but a closer look at
"excuses" in general and "computer simulations" (aka "Sims) as
they relate to phoney-baloney trial-runs.
Spin Doctors, PACs and Ambulance-chasers alike, are keeping a
close watch on unfolding events in Houston this week, as the final
results of that lying-contest may be the key to many things
relating to morality in the USA ... and to at least some very
large future legal fees, if the verdict indicates a viable tactic
for the upcoming case - you know, the one before the World Court
(The International Court of Justice).
Ken Lay is betting his future accommodations on the "Doofus
Defense" and if it works, as experts say it that it "just might"
for this homie-hero, then it's a "slam dunk" that an old-pal (who
says he 'hardly knew Ken') will be emboldened to do the same in
the Hague (Netherlands) in '09 or sooner - when his turn comes
up. "Heck" says W, "I've known - oops - make that 'heard-about'
Ken since my days in Austin (flashing a hook-'em-horns hand-sign),
and he's a lot smarter than me." Dick is not buying the defense,
however, as he is just way too pragmatic for that. The trusty
quail-hunting pump-action is more likely to be in his future, if
it gets that far. And he won't miss this time.
Ken Lay, with a totally straight face, told the Jury that he
didn't believe the Wall Street Journal when it sent a list of
detailed specific questions about the crooked partnerships and
hidden corporations - to his attention at Enron in 2001. Those
questions, by the way, were sent from the WSJ at the request of
Enron's B.of D. At the time, Lay told other Enron executives that
he believed the paper had a "hate-on" for Enron... OK, actually he
used a different "H" word, but he doesn't want to further enflame
any of the female jurors... As... one can never be sure that those
large cash payments from Berne (for the "jury consultant") got
into the open-hands which they were supposed to. The old Gene
Hackman ploy.
As a result of the mountain of circumstantial evidence against
him, Lay claims that he couldn't possibly have put the pieces of
the puzzle together, since they were out to get him, and "I had no
real reason to believe that anyone at Enron was involved in
anything inappropriate," he beams to half-asleep "peers"... Ah,
yes, the vaunted Doofus Defense. The bigger the lie, the better -
as it only shows how Doofus you really are. And there is no lie
any bigger than WMDs (except maybe the avian flu pandemic).
The company (or Nation) is falling apart before one's eyes, amid
allegations of executive perks and croneys profiting from secret
side deals, or semi-official leaks (Plame-gate)... not to mention
disaster funds converted into Euros going into Swiss accounts (for
safekeeping) - but there'd be no reason... really... for the chief
executive to ask any probing questions. After all, the interior
decorator is coming by this afternoon to discus the remodel of
the Aspen mansion, the Crawford billiard room, or whatever.
On the off-chance that the Doofus-Defense doesn't work out,
however ... what's a poor country boy to do? Spin Doctors
everywhere want-to-know, and a big consulting fee for the right
answer is probably available.... Lots of from the Nawlins
pork-barrel-pickins are yet to be allotted.
To that end, I am forwarding to Karl's attention - the next best
Roving defense on the planet, for these assorted damning facts,
which is to be called, with nary-a-grin, the "faulty sim" defense.
In that giant computer on Valis, as it were, it looks as if the
Cheney/Rummy avatars got corrupted by some sneaky Trojan malware
applet - which was piggy-backing on the old Nazi downloaded
documents (worse than porn for 'bugs')
That's how it happened, honest.
Is this faulty-sim defense a slam-dunk-tenet, or what?
And don't forget, this is all on the Q-T - a need-to-know, and
zero-leak, basis; but for the matrix-maniacs amongst us, the
back-story can be found here:
http://www.simulation-argument.com/
Signed,
Harry Tuttle
official C.S. programmer and reformed Trojan-planter
