Cheap Linens Basically Shot Somebody
Posted on | January 11, 2011 | No Comments
Many wise commentators have noticed the way that Sarah Palin directly caused Rep. Gabrielle Gifford to be shot by using the graphic image of the crosshairs of a rifle scope to “target” her in an act of political speech. Indeed, Palin might as well have just pulled the trigger herself, and I propose we let this Loughner person go free — who can blame him? He saw a campaign graphic, and he obeyed. This is merely natural instinct.
But the poison, my friends, runs much deeper than we choose to acknowledge. Just this morning, as I drove down an apparently ordinary street in Worcester, Massachusetts, I was chilled to the bone to see a business that used the utterly terrifying symbol of a rifle’s crosshairs on the sign in front of their premises. Look at their website, friends: the symbol of murder is indeed there as well, chillingly imposed over the Mansonian imagery of a human skull. Once you notice that this business in Central Massachusetts calls itself “CrossFit Center Mass,” you can see precisely what they’re up to: “center mass” is where one aims a gun to shoot a human being, my friends. Yes, it is so.
Littering their website and physical premises with crosshairs, winking at their encouragement to take dead aim at the human heart, and (one presumes) encouraging their personal training clients to “hit” their weight loss “targets” or “nail” their “dead lifts,” this gymnasium is blowing the dog whistle…for MURDER! How long, my friends, until someone is gunned down in the street by some sick soul answering this vile inducement to hate? Will Congress not act to silence them?
Oh, but friends, it gets so much worse. Artists in Portland who sell handcrafted glassware under the starkly terror-inducing name of “Bullseye Glass?” Oh, friends, my very flesh quivers with a terrible chill to say it is so! Oh, whither civil discourse in glassware? Whither objets d’art that spoke not of VIOLENT DEATH?
One even hears rumors that a major retailer has named itself “Target.” Surely this is a false claim, as such a vile spewing of subliminal political vitriol would surely by now have led to far more legislative deaths than have been yet seen.
But let us speak no more of such dread things, my friends. Once one learns to see the world through eyes such as these, reader, one lives always with the frisson of he who sees. And then there is nothing left but tenure or a job at CNN.
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