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Send Jesus to Guantanamo

Last updated on: March 24, 2016 at 4:47 pm by Christian Piatt

Send Jesus to Guantanamo 2016-03-24T16:47:44+00:00 Christian Piatt

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A foreign-born radical of questionable parentage and part of the religious tribe living under occupied rule is agitating his people. When he comes into the city his followers speak of government overthrow. He’s challenged the authority of religious and political leaders. The powers that be are restless.

There have been others like him, speaking of dissent and of a new world out from under the boot-heel of the present so-called tyranny. Never mind that their lives are better since we’ve come. Never mind that we helped bring peace to generations of tribal violence that led to more blood shed of innocents than before. At least now those who pay the ultimate price have been accused of a crime.

Now there’s peace, order, infrastructure. And he’s threatening all the good we’ve built up here. If he had his way, the region would be thrown back into chaos.

He’s not committed a crime per se, but he presents a clear and present danger, regardless. He’s been under government monitoring for some time. Better to detain him, keep our enemy closer. We’ll worry about charges later. Maybe we’ll try him in the Court of Public Opinion once they recognize how much they stand to lose if they keep listening to this charlatan who promises a new reality that he has no means of sustaining.

No money. No military. Just a radicalized, loose network of tribal dissidents who think they, of all people, can do better for themselves.

Bring him in. Without formal charges we can label him as an enemy combatant and detain him at Guantanamo. In the meantime, we’ll figure out how to turn his own people against him so even if we have no legal basis, we can at least do what needs to be done with him without risk of a revolt.

Poor people just don’t know what’s good for them. Freedom, after all, is only possible after order is established. If they can’t do for themselves what needs to be done, we’ll do what needs to be done anyway. Protect them from themselves.

As for the radical, his calls for “change” and a better way of life will fade after people are sufficiently fed, safe and entertained. After all, who has the appetite for revolution when their bellies are already full?

They’ll thank us later.

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