The vast, clanking, medieval apparatus of Homeland Security, that has sprouted like an enormous poison fungus since 9/11, with its brutal police state mindset the odious Patriot Act with its flagrant subversions of the Bill of Rights the endless, fantasy-based terror-peddling of the prostitute corporate media with its clowns and harpies churning irrational fear and anger in the uninformed: all this grim, repressive machinery is a ham-handed attempt to distract Americans from the real causes of their injury, abuse, and oppression. 