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by Mr. Chuckles, Unknown News Sept. 7, 2006
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I have tried every other form of political statement short of setting myself on fire, so here is a half-assed, juvenile little story for your amusement and vilification:
This is the Iraq War:
A billionaire's son graduates with a degree in architecture. Thanks to the billionaire's money and friends the son is awarded the job of designing, building and managing a skyscraper to hold offices, shops and apartments for thousands of people.
The son's design is incomplete, trashy and poorly conceived but because no one has the courage to speak the truth, the building is built — and in less than a year! The son announces "Mission Accomplished!" while wearing a hardhat.
Unfortunately the new building is crooked. So the son's father's friends ("investors") pay for new siding to make the building look vertical. And they pay for the floors of the rooms to be leveled. The son mocks those who claimed that the building is crooked, "Cynics and dead-enders who are jealous of my building!"
But no one wants to live or work in the building. It is crooked and has a shitty design ... plus it is hot and it stinks.
So the billionaire pays people to move there, and offers them free rent for the first five years.
The new tenants move in, but declare, "Death to the architect!" and start trashing the building. So the son hires security guards for the building using his father's money and declares that the new skyscraper is a successful and prosperous example of capitalism in a free market economy.
Then scientists declare that the new building is located on an earthquake fault and that it will not stand up to even a mild earthquake because it is crooked. The son mocks them as "They do not understand architecture or engineering. The building is perfectly safe."
And when a small earthquake hits killing many of the tenants, the son declares "Thanks to my sound architectural design many lives were saved in this devastating earthquake! I will stay the course and rebuild! I don't care how much money it costs, this building is essential to us. Not rebuilding it would mean that all of the lives lost in the quake were wasted! And, I vow to punish the contractors who did such shoddy work! They're at fault here, not me."
Then he demanded more money to rebuild on the same lot using the exact same design — and as he had neglected to purchase insurance, his father had to bail him out again. And no one had the courage to speak the truth, so he stayed the course and rebuilt ... again, and again, and again, and again, and again.
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Unfortunately the new building is crooked.
So the son's father's friends ("investors") pay for new siding to make the building look vertical.
And they pay for the floors of the rooms to be leveled.
The son mocks those who claimed that the building is crooked, "Cynics and dead-enders who are jealous of my building!"
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