[UA] Aluminium Undergarments

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

--- Gaston Phillips <gaston at math.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> From Randy Cassingham's "This is True" mailing list
> (www.thisistrue.com)
> 
>   It is now illegal in Colorado to wear aluminum
>   underwear. "This is serious business," insists
> State Sen. Stephanie
>   Takis, who sponsored the bill. "We have laws
> against using crowbars as
>   theft devices, but if you were lining your
> underwear with aluminum
>   foil, that was not a crime." It is now.
> Apparently, shoplifters found
>   such so-called "iron pants" allow them to sneak
> stolen items past anti-
>   theft scanners at store doors. The law also allows
> store security
>   officers to detain people who "crackle when they
> walk," but provides an
>   exception for aluminum britches worn for "personal
> amusement".
>   (Colorado Springs Gazette)
> 
> 
> ...no comment.
> 
> gaston

Anything the Gazette Telegraph says is, while true,
also horribly biased. They seem to have completely
abandoned the idea of triangulating their sources or
providing counterpoints.  This really isn't suprising
considering the power and influence conservative
groups have in Colorado Springs.

I think a lot of UA-able stuff comes out of Colorado,
not as much as Arizona or New Jersey, perhaps, but as
a bubbling cauldron of barely-restrained fanaticism,
we do pretty good.

Take Will Perkins, for example.  He's a prominent used
car salesman who threw his lot in with Dr. James
Dobson and Focus on the Family (for those of your
living in Oregon: Focus on the family recently
underwrote Lon Mabon and the OCA.  I can guarantee at
least two anti-gay measures on state and local levels
by the next election based on what happened here when
Dobson underwrote Perkins.)

Perkin's smiling, homey face graced television sets
all during the 1980s, vying with a couple of brother's
all-Levis store for Most Obnoxious Commercials of All
Time.  Perkins always included right-wing Christian
sayings and blessings in his commercials.  By the late
80s, he'd added a clump of commercials which simply
advertised for Jesus and Dobson's ministries, using
smilin' Will's face.

In the mean-time, Perkins and Dobson had gathered
other influential Springs residents and helped
introduce them to Focus on the Family, creating a
powerful "grass roots" political movement that did
everything but convert the boy scouts to Hitler Youth.
 In the early 90s, this group ramrodded "Ammendment 2"
through the state congress.  Amendment 2 (to the State
Constitution) made it illegal for someone to seek
civil damages or restitution against someone who
denied them work on the basis that the individual was
"homosexual, bisexual or lesbian."  Now, the law might
have held up in court if it had simply said that being
fired because of your sexual orientation did not
constitute a grounds for lawsuits, but, FoF had sold
the bill on an anti-homosexual agenda and the wording
eventually sank it. (It was overturned and reinstated
and overturned again.)

Okay, so, now I'm thinking about Perkins and FoF in a
UA vein.  Are they perfect examples of "the tiger"
from the "why keep magic secret?" metaphor?  Or would
they represent something more dangerous, sidreal
perhaps to the OU, but impinging upon it.  Maybe
Crytpomancers find the organization useful for
creating charges or some form of "grass roots" magic
is being developed.  The agenda of FoF constantly
influences this town.  Keep that in mind when you see
any weird thing from the Gazette Telegraph.

=====
-- Rp Bowman, Royal Minister of Stuff
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