(Via Whacking Day) Stay away from open flames while reading the latest from Paul "I love Kool Aid" Routledge in the UK wingnut paper of record:
UNITED AGAINST STATESZounds! Not saying "hi", not wearing baseball caps, not eating fast food - this guy really knows how to hurt!
AS citizens, we have little power to prevent our leaders going to war against Iraq.
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But we are also consumers, and in the run-up to war a Boycott America campaign has been suggested. These principles could provide some guidance:
- DO not go to the United States as a tourist. Stay at home and see what a much finer country ours is.
- DO not buy or drink American wine, beer or spirits. Give me Tetley's any day.
- DO not eat American food. Stay away from McDonald's and all the other fast-food outlets.
- DO not pay to watch American films. They are full of noise, foul language and violence.
- DO not buy American newspapers or magazines.
- DO not use Americanisms. Instead of "Hi!" let's go back to saying "Good morning." No more "Yeah!" A "yes" will suffice.
- DO not wear American clothes. Throw the baseball cap in the dustbin (not, emphatically not, the trash can).
- DO not fly American airlines anywhere. It's probably safer not to.
- DO not smoke American cigarettes. They are bigger killers than al-Qaeda.
- DO not, above all, believe the lies that will spew out of the Anglo-American spin machine once the conflict gets under way.
- IF we try to live by these simple precepts, perhaps one day the United States will be forced to mend its violent, imperial ways.
And don't tell the USA's liberal media establishment about the the newspaper and magazine boycott!
