Battlestar Jihad
Remember after 9/11 there was that anti-drug commercial which claimed that marijuana funds terrorism? I’m sitting here watching Battlestar Gallactica on DVD. (Which, by the way, is a fucking awesome show.) I bought a boxed set of all three seasons. The first season was a copy of the American DVD release, but the second and third are of the British release. I just got through watching the first disc of season 3, and at the end they had an anti-piracy message, similar to the ones they have in the US. It said something like “Piracy harms our film and television industries,” then “Piracy harms our music industry,” the usual shit. Then it actually said, “Piracy funds terrorism.”
That’s right, folks. I bought a pirate DVD in China, and I’ve unwittingly funded the next 9/11. Somewhere in a cave in Pakistan Osama bin Laden is smiling with glee that his plan to use mass media to destroy the infidel is going so well.
Hyperbole, anyone?
