This could happen to you

Stay away from the scag, boys and girls. Years of heavy drug use could make you like Rickie Lee Jones, unable to tell the difference between putting a stars-and-stripes sticker on your car and systematically murdering six million Jews:

"I hope it wakes people up. You know, people in America are afraid to say anything; they are afraid of George Bush, afraid of the police, afraid of being fined, afraid of being accused. I feel I'm in the right place and right time spiritually to stand up, and say, 'But you don't have any clothes on'."
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"I think 9/11 gave this generation an identity, and its identity is potentially fascist. My skin crawls when I think of the first week after 9/11. I was looking out of the window and there were people marching down the street carrying flags. It reminded me of spontaneous, angry Nazis and I thought, 'Oh, man, we are in a lot of trouble'. There's a whole bunch of people who have flags hanging from their cars and who are mistaking fascism for patriotism."

As I've written before, it takes a special kind of idiocy to survey the current geo-political landscape and conclude that the Americans are the Nazi religious nuts. Ms. Jones's dementia is easily explained, but I'm not sure what turned Wanker reporter Simon Hattenstone into a dazed sycophant who, instead of asking Jones to explain the similarities between post-9/11 patriotism and the most notorious dictatorship in history, asks her if she'd be willing to shoot the President "for the benefit of democracy".

(via Charles Johnson, who relates a hilarious anecdote about auditioning for a completely zonked-out Jones's touring band a few years ago. How different the blogosphere would be today, had Johnson got the gig.)

Posted by damian at October 21, 2003 06:18 AM