Meet the Fuckers

I have a crazy idea.

If we’re going to go around the world, invade other nations, overthrow their governments (even democratically elected ones), spread democracy like a fertile seed, and shove the 11 inch cock of constitutional freedom down the throat of a porn star named Iraq, we should maybe – just MAYBE – practice the same model of Democracy and freedom here.

Yesterday a private citizen named Lorrie Heasley committed the ultimate crime one can commit in this country today – they DARED to insult King George.

Heasley, of Woodland, Washington, was kicked off her flight from LAX to Portland, Oregon yesterday for wearing a T-shirt with pictures of Bush, Cheney and Rice, with the phrase "Meet the Fuckers,” (a take on the incredibly unfunny film, Meet the Fockers).

It would be understandable that we need to save the children by shielding their eyes from strategically placed consonants and vowels that create words our culture has decided are obscene. After all, 100,000 Iraqi citizens having their brains splattered by smart bombs won’t tarnish children’s perception of the world – but a seven-letter expression accurately describing the assholes that commanded it to happen will.

However – I genuinely question whether or not someone with an obscenity on their shirt that wasn’t directed toward the murderers in the Administration would have been asked to leave a flight because of it.

Further supporting my suspicion is some excellent detective work over at Yellow Dog Blog, who noted the following:

"Courtesy of OpenSecrets.org, we find that Southwest's main political action committee, the Freedom Fund, has given $5,000 to George W. Bush in the last two presidential elections, while giving nothing to Al Gore or John Kerry. Their favorite guy to buy in Congress? None other than Mr. Tom DeLay, to whom the corporate group has given a total of $9,000 in the last five years. They even kicked in a grand for Rick Santorum."

The other problem I have with the incident, is that she boarded the plane with the shirt in full view, and made a huge stink about it ONCE THE PLANE WAS IN THE AIR!

At any rate, this would be a perfect time to introduce the video serving as the source of the T-shirt slogan (or did the T-shirt spawn the video title?).
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Fuckers.