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Sunday, February 01, 2004

Are the elite playing games with the Super Bowl?

More than a hundred million Americans typically gather around the electronic hearth and its mesmerizing theta waves for the Super Bowl each year as the routine of the New Year kicks into first gear after recovering from the winter holidays.

This year's game comes as the Bush Administration is defending its police state USA PATRIOT Act. To draw the connection between their police state and the "patriotic" pasttime of watching gladiatorial contests in tax-subsudized stadia, the White House dragged New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady to the State of Union Address, flanked by the wives of Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld. Bush called for the expansion of the USA PATRIOT Act in his speech. Ashcroft followed up this week by delivering a veto threat for legislation that would role back just four of its several police-state powers. ( Last year, Brady was scheduled for a Kerry fundraiser but it fell through.)

After being granted more spectrum rights by Powell's son Federal Commuincations Chairman Michael Powell, CBS announced they would not be airing an anti-Bush advertisement bought by MoveOn.org for its "Bush in 30 Seconds" contest winner. CBS will be airing ads from the White House drug czar office, though.


Last year featured a contest between the Bucanneers and the Raiders, two teams flying the Jolly Roger, and a year later we have a Presidential "contest" between two members of Skull & Bones, the Yale death cult with the moral code of pirates.

Two years ago, with the trauma of September 11 still fresh, the agent of the British Crown going by the name of Sir Paul McCartney delivered an Orwellian anthem subtly equating "Freedom" with the "War on Terror".

From USA Today:

Freedom, the first pregame extravaganza to be broadcast in its entirety in the Super Bowl's 36-year history . . . For the finale of his current anthem, Freedom, Paul McCartney will be flanked by 500 young people representing the 180 countries that will air the game.

(Note that in Feb. 1964 the original Beatles delivered clean-scrubbed Dionysian beats to the youth of America traumatized and looking for answers in the wake of the "King-Kill" assassination of President Kennedy a few months before.) The 2002 Super Bowl also premiered the still running "marijuana user = terrorist" ads that will probably air in tonight's contest as well.

Will the Patriots, favored by 7, win this year and further hammer in the faux-PATRIOTism as the Bones-that-be work to further flush the Constitution down the toilet in 2004?

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