January 22, 2004 - Chicken George takes the campaign to Area 51 today visiting Roswell, New Mexico for a speech to the New Mexico Military Institute and an audience made up of invited law enforcement officials and, of course, the cadets. He will stress the theme set by the Party of Fear for the 2004 re-election bid – fear and the war on terror. He is expected to reinforce his call to the people to support his program to make the government intrusions embodied in the Patriot Act permanent. He will tell the cadets that subversive ideas like due process; the right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures; the right to counsel; and the right to a fair and public trial have no place in a war on international terrorism.

Roswell is the place where true-believers swear the advance party of an alien invasion crash landed in 1947. Area 51 is that place where they earnestly believe that the government stores the wreckage of the spaceship and the bodies of its alien crew. (Perhaps they were not invaders at all but only Guest Workers who came to soon. There are some jobs that humans won’t take, you know.} It seems appropriate that Chicken George should visit there. The search for alien UFOs is a pretty analog for the search for those damn illusive weapons of mass destruction that Dugout Dick continues to assure us will be found. George is not that positive, he is content to claim concealed “weapons program activities”.

Chicken George will tell the cadets that the campaign against terrorism has been a success. He will point to the Homeland Security agent’s Orange Alert holidays as proof of that success claiming that the intrusions and disruptions thwarted Bin Laden’s plans to strike over the holidays – not because we detected any, but because we were sufficiently afraid. He will use the occasion to call for a 9% increase in spending on domestic security agencies but not for the taxes to pay for the cost. He will leave that task to our grandchildren.

We can expect that he will also use the occasion to tout his guest worker plan – insuring that what is left of American business will have a ready supply of workers willing to take minimum wage or less for jobs that used to provide a living wage. He will count on the audience in the state with the strongest ties to Latin America to warmly applaud that idea. When the employment offices open in Tijuana, Matamoras, and Juarez we can look for those few jobs that industry outsource to Asia will be filled by George’s guests.

His message will be more of the same – be afraid America; be afraid and trust me.