How You Gonna Come ...

Via every-where : I see that the Bush admin has finally begun a purge of one of the last great hotbeds of liberalism. No, not the State Department. State is where we are keeping the Panda Huggers. According to this very serious piece of reporting, the librals are all hanging out at the CIA:

"The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House," said a former senior CIA official who maintains close ties to both the agency and to the White House. "Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president's agenda."

Since you know that every one of those long-haired, chronic loving, mac daddy, hipsters in the Clandestine Services department has it memorized, I'm recommending that all of them dial up Clash's classic The Guns of Brixton on their IPOD and crank it up!

A CNN broadcast that featured video of a bunch of hardened spooks wearing their ties like headbands and dancing like fools as they sing

"When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun"

at the top of their lungs would do nothing to sway the administration. But a few people in middle-America watching CNN with the sound turned down might see it and think:

"Wow! Those white guys in suits sure are bad dancers! What the hell is this? One of those bad German music videos? Why is it on CNN? Turn up the volume Ethyl. What The Fuck! Those guys are all CIA agents and their rocking out to the Clash in protest to the Bush administration calling the CIA 'a hotbed of librals'!?! Damned! That is whack! What fool would believe that the CIA is full of pansy ass librals? My uncle Fred was in the CIA and he's no pansy assed liberal. He once killed 3 heavely armed KGB Agents with nothing but a pair of nail clippers! You know Ethyl, I'm no East Coast libral elite but it seems clear to me that this debate can not be framed as a traditional libral vs. conservitive divide. I think we need to reframe thie debate in the more acurate terms of 'Bat-Shit Crazy vs sane' and I really wish the media would start phraseing it that way.

OK, it probably wouldn't happen exactly like that but you get the picture.

This represents an golden opportunity to reframe the debate in terms that would let the sane compete. So if anyone at the CIA is reading this and you don't want to just go quietly with your hands on your head, then put down your IPOD for a minuet, fix your tie, and let me give you some advice by way of Arlo Guthrie:

If one CIA agent, just one CIA Agent appears on CNN wearing his tie like a headband, dancing like a fool and singing "The Guns of Brixton" the viewers will think he's really sick and they won't pay any attention to him. And
if two CIA agents, two CIA agents appear on CNN wearing their ties like a headbands, dancing like a fools, and singing "The Guns of Brixton" in harmony, the viewers will think they're both faggots and they'll change the channel to Fox News.
But if three CIA agents appear on CNN wearing their ties like a headbands, dancing like a fools and singing "The Guns of Brixton" in harmony, three, can you imagine, three CIA agents appearing on CNN wearing their ties like a headbands,
dancing like a fools and singing "The Guns of Brixton" in harmony. The viewers
will think it's an organization and they'll tell all their friends they saw it.But can you, can you imagine fifty CIA agents appearing on CNN wearing their ties like a headbands, dancing like a fools and singing "The Guns of Brixton" in
harmony? The media and the viewers would thinks it's a movement. And thats what we need: 'The CIA Guns of Brixton Anti-Bat-shit-Crazies' Movement!

All I'm asking for is 50 CIA agents who can kind of keep a beat, an IPOD, and someone who knows how to call a press conference.

Go!