Dont Look at me…

Well, we’re at it again.  This week a new secret police force/militia was revealed in Afghanistan.  Made up of mostly local and area tribes and lead by the US special forces, the primary function of this anti-Taliban unit is not yet clear.   Are they secret police?  Are they Taliban infiltrators?  Are they a militia?  Nobody seems to be telling.   The LDI as they are now being called, was started by the US military and no information was shared with its UN counterparts.  Instead, they decided to give them bright yellow belts to distinguish them from Taliban fighters in the area, and giving the general order not to shoot anyone wearing a yellow sash.    The LDI is a paid unit.   The US threw a lot of money recruiting ex-Taliban fighters in hopes of changing the tide of forces and sentiment.   Time will tell if this is a winning strategy, although my bet is this is going to have serious repercussions when the money dries up.  Then you’ll have nothing more than a better armed, better trained, opposition to our forces and our goals.

This also brings me to another question.   How many secret police/militia forces are running around in Afghanistan?   We’ve already discussed the Karzai family’s secret commando force running around “raiding” poppy fields.   Is the LDI another group, or is it the same group, just taken over by the US military?   It has become increasingly difficult to tell who is who and with nobody talking, it’s next to impossible.   Pretty soon we’ll have armed the entire country and find ourselves in another foreign civil war.

Now anyone that knows me, know I love a good conspiracy.  This one has been floating around and I never put too much thought behind it, until now.   With Toyota’s latest recall of ALL Prius models for “sudden acceleration” problems, it seems almost like they are being targeted with a slew of bad issues.   Again, after the first couple of recalls, I thought that Toyota had just made some mistakes.   But now things are starting to stink of government set up.   As always our government likes to go over the top when committing to its tactics, and this time is no different.   Why make it look like an accident when you know there’s nothing anyone can do about it, right?   Yet they play the game anyway.

So here is what I believe is happening.   You’ll remember the “Cash for Clunkers” program that our government started last year, in which you could trade in any old (under strict guidelines) vehicle for up to $4000 on a purchase of a new car.   You could use that money to purchase any make of car, as long as it met certain mpg. restrictions.  Well, Japan has also started that program, but with one small detail left out.   American made/owned car manufacturers were left out of the deal.   Yep, you couldn’t buy any of our stuff.   I’m not totally clear what the restrictions were or how American cars fell out of the loop, but they did.   Maybe the restriction was, “you can’t suck”.  I dunno?    Never the less, do you think that might have left a bad taste in the mouth of the American Auto industry?   Do you think the “salt in the wound” may have been that Toyota sold more cars during the “Cash for Clunkers” program than any of the Big Three American auto corps?   And now that our government is part owner of 2 of the Big Three, do you think that might have something to do with it?   And how much cash has Honda paid under the table to keep its name out of the papers?   These are all interesting questions, and provide quite a motive for retribution.       It’s something to think about.   Plus the more Toyota continues to handle the situation well, the more “recalls” you can expect.

Or, you could be an Occam’s razor fan.  So for you, we say Toyota simply messed up, bad.

What had started out to be (in my mind) a funny picture, turned out to be greeted with shock and glairs of distaste.  Now, this wasn’t just a poorly thought out joke, but more of an experiment in context.  By changing the image only slightly and adding a single word, I was able to create a complete juxtaposition of thought, completely taken out of context (correction: completely taking the picture out of context).

We always say “That you can’t judge a book by its cover”, yet we are guilty of doing just that, every day.  Why couldn’t this be just a happy clown, asking you if you’d like some candy?   Are clowns bad? (That of course is an argument by some)  Is candy bad (Again another argument by some) Fears and Fat aside lets take them at what they are, which is inherently not evil.  Clowns are funny, and candy is tasty.  However, placed on the same page, in just the right position…  you have a demon of some consequence.  A man no longer interested in training house hold pets to do tricks for your amusement, but a being so vile, you’d prefer to put a bullet in his head.  What does that say about you?

 However.   Books, have covers for a reason.  I don’t recall ever seeing Fabio on the cover of a Tom Clancy novel.  Or perhaps an image in juxtaposition isn’t necessarily an opposite, as much as maybe…  Completing a circle?   An image set in a different view to reveal a truth?   Now, I in no way mean to say the respectable Mr. Popovich is a child molesting freak.  I’ve seen his show on “America’s got Talent” and it was awesome.  All I’m saying is, the eyes of the world are upon all of us, and we’ll never escape our own hidden truths or narrow mindedness.

“Don’t look at me, like other people look at you.” ~ me