I am a voice crying in the wilderness
A twist on the old ‘boy who cried wolf’ story ……
Once uppon a time in a small far away vilage there lived a group of people. This group lived in total fear that one day a wolf woudl come into their vilage and destroy everything. As such they stationed watchmen all around the borders of the vilage.
One day, one of the watchmen saw a pile of leaves move in the wind out of the corner of his eye. He totaly freaked out. Went running to the town square screaming about how the evil wolf was here and we were now all surely to be destroyed. Everyone in the town began running around screaming and flailing their arms over their head in total panic.
While this mayhem was going on in the town square, one of the other watchmen saw a opossom cross through one of their fields. He also ran to the town square screaming ahow this is the worst most dangerous wolf attack in all of history.
Another watchman ran into the square. He hadent actualy seen anything at all, but her know that ‘the price of freedom is eternal vigilance’ so he just wanted to make sure that the warnings of wolvs were heard loud and clear. She he also began showting that the largest most masive and well orgnized pack of wolvs that the wolld has ever seen was due any second now and would destroy us all.
Then there was one little boy still out at the edges of town. The danm up above in the hills had burst and now a masive flood was headed their way. So he rushes to the town square. Unfortunatly for the boy, so obssesed were his parents and teachers about a wolf atack that they had never actualy taught him the word ‘flood’.
‘Hey everyone’ he screams ‘there is danger headed this way. Its a ….. um …. a …. dang, what do you call it ….. well, its big and its scarey and its making these god awful roaring noises. And its headed this way’
The vilagers all naturaly assume its a wolf. They ready their muskets and rifles and all promply drown in the flood.
~sigh~
More and more news reports are comming out about the max hardcore trial. Over and over each of them is repeating the pre-memorized and well rehersed speaches about ‘miller test’. Each of them is repeating the fears that our first adnment rights are being trampled on. They had been repeating this ‘freedom of speach’ line over and over and over so many times that now its the only warning they appear capapible of wording.
And the flood of fourth adnment right to privacy violations crashes through and drowns them all.