March 13, 2004
Takoma Park's resident spy
A resident of the People's Republic of Takoma Park, Maryland's crunch granola town just outside Washington, D.C. and a "nuclear-free zone," has been arrested on charges of spying for Iraq. Susan P. Lindauer describes herself as an "anti-war activist." The manager of the local food co-op in Takoma Park, with unintended comedy, notes in a Baltimore Sun article, "I'm surprised that [she] could be from around here."
If not Takoma Park ... where?
Reminds me of the time last year I arrived early to meet a friend at an organic cafe in Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood and noted a "No Bombing Iraq" sticker on the front door. "So, you're pro-Saddam?" I pleasantly asked the waiter who seated me. "What?" she said. "Your bumper sticker," I nodded toward the door. "It's not as simple as that," she said in consternation.
"It's not?" I asked.
Don't everyone be so shocked, shocked when fringe liberals give concrete comfort to sworn enemies of this country.
Lindauer's black Mazda apparently sports a "War Is Not the Answer" bumper sticker. An identically worded banner often appears outside the Quaker's building on North Charles Street in Baltimore. It made me realize as I drove by that to the contrary, war is the ultimate answer to tyranny.
As P.J. O'Rourke noted in a book title, 
"Give War A Chance" !
Let me suggest some new bumper stickers for Lindauer:
"Treason Is Not the Answer"
"Feminists for Tyranny"
"Activists for Dictators' Sons' Rape Squads"
Oh, speaking of nutty feminists, did anyone see the hilarious Arrested Development last Sunday (Fox, 9:30 p.m., offbeat comedy) where the smitten son, George Michael, makes a poster for his "ethics" teacher who "loves" Saddam Hussein?!
