With God On Our Side
for release 06-02-09
Dallas, Texas
by Lightning Rod
I once met a guy who cut his own cock off. I don't mean that he flew to Thailand and had some nimble fingered surgeon do it under sterile conditions. This guy did it with a razor blade while sitting in a prison cell. It was a pure case of sexual abuse.
On the block they called him NoDick and NumbNuts. I had to take a peek one day in the shower. Sure enough, it was clean as a whistle. I'm sure he had to sit down to pee. It's harder to aim a snub-nose than it is to aim a rifle.
I talked to the guy several times. He was tragically stupid and certifiably crazy. I discerned that the reason he had dismembered himself was because some of the religious nuts in the institution had gotten the poor guy lathered up about the fact that he was in there for some sex crime. If thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, etc. Well, in this case the offending organ was between his legs, so he plucked it out. He did it to himself but he was just a child in his mind and the ones who were really responsible were the bible thumpers who misguided him.
I hadn't thought about NoDick in years until the news broke about the abortion doctor being shot. I watch the news coverage of the event and I see the disclaimers from the anti-abortion organizations saying that they don't endorse this violence. This is at the same time when their websites display Wanted posters for individual abortion doctors and rhetorically suggest that violence against these people is somehow just or even smiled upon by god. Then they act surprised when some nut-case drops off the edge and does the rash act. Reference the Oklahoma City Bombing which was also a crime instigated by twisted ideology.
The 9/11 attackers weren't just bunch of meanies. They weren't in the game for profit or greed. They were people who were driven by an ideology. If someone can be convinced to cut his own dick off based on bent ideas, why not fly an airplane into a building? Allah will love you for it.
Ideas are more powerful than weapons any day. The idea will easily find a weapon, be it a knife, a gun, a boxknife a vail of anthrax or an atom bomb. Ideas or beliefs cause actions. For this reason it's pretty important what the ideas are. There are ideas based on truth and facts and there are ideas based on misconstruction and delusion and myth.
The Poet's Eye squints in alarm when someone's ideology is predicated on the assumption that they know what god wants them to do.
But now we got weapons
Of the chemical dust
If fire them we're forced to
Then fire them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side.--Dylan
