When Feds start looking to Sci-Fi writers to stop terror, it’s time to just give up
Shia Law sounds like a real pain in the ass if you ask me. And I haven’t prayed five times in the last eon, let alone five times a day. All I know, is, it’s going to be a real bitch when this administration finally completely loses to the Islamototalitariazis.
Because when you see things like this come up in the news in a short time, you start thinking that the U.S. is pulling a 1919 Black Sox scandal on us and just plain taking a dive in the war on terror.
““The terrorists know what they want and they will stop at nothing to get it. By force and intimidation, they seek to impose a dictatorship of fear, under which every man, woman, and child lives in total obedience to their ideology,” says Dick Cheney.
So the Department of Homeland Defense does the most logical thing: They look for the advice of Sci-fi writers.
Sci-fi writers join war on terror
Looking to prevent the next terrorist attack, the Homeland Security Department is tapping into the wild imaginations of a group of self-described “deviant” thinkers: science-fiction writers.
“We spend our entire careers living in the future,” says author Arlan Andrews, one of a handful of writers the government brought to Washington this month to attend a Homeland Security conference on science and technology.
Those responsible for keeping the nation safe from devastating attacks realize that in addition to border agents, police and airport screeners, they “need people to think of crazy ideas,” Andrews says.
The writers make up a group called Sigma, which Andrews put together 15 years ago to advise government officials. The last time the group gathered was in the late 1990s, when members met with government scientists to discuss what a post-nuclear age might look like, says group member Greg Bear. He has written 30 sci-fi books, including the best seller Darwin’s Radio.
Now, the Homeland Security Department is calling on the group to help with the government’s latest top mission of combating terrorism.
Grab your prayer mats. We’re doomed.
–WKW