Republican National Convention
Anti-Official Communiqué #4: Republican National Clown Convention by Colonel Oftruth, New York — 26.08.2004
CIRCA has heard that the clown convention is in town. But how come they're not allowed to go? Get your MISSION ACCOMPLICATED signs ready and help the clowns of CIRCA make their way to the convention.
JOIN US AT MADISON SQ. PARK ON SUNDAY AT NOON
From the Big Top Delegation to the RNCC (Republican National Clown Convention):
We, the clowns, jesters and tricksters of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army (CIRCA), are delighted to host the Republican National Clown Convention (RNCC) in our fair city of New York. We are so gratified that the Religious Right has brought their grand circus to our humble town, and we are eager to attend!
We are particularly inspired by the Head Clown, DUBYA, a fool of globe-crushing power.
DUBYA is a truly talented trickster; transforming his ruling-class-wastrel life story into a faux-farmer media persona; creating false WMDs and conjuring fake connections to Al Qaeda to justify the invasion of Iraq; doling out a plastic turkey to the suffering troops there for the news cameras; giving speeches before false backdrops of ‘MADE IN USA’ boxes to herald the ‘comeback’ of the economy he has despoiled for his inner circle´s gain. And now he and his circus come to co-opt the memory of 9/11 and turn our city´s trauma into their triumphalism. He´s extremely funny, though we think he may be taking his tragic joke too far…
The key moment for CIRCA was his fabulous flight suit appearance on the aircraft carrier, where he angled the cameras so the nearby shoreline could not be seen, where he converted his draft-dodging into pseudo-heroism, where he took the debacle of an unnecessary war and occupation and summed it up with ‘Mission Accomplished.’ What a fantastic clown! Bravo! Encore! Two Thumbs Up!!! We laughed, we cried, we continued to count the dead…
CIRCA wishes to express its admiration for the horrific hijinx of Dubya the Uber-Clown by dressing in flight suits and strutting our thumbs-up stuff on the streets of Manhattan. We will imitate our hero by playing soldier, and playing golf, while Rome burns. If we also pretend to indulge in his narcotic pastimes of times past, it is only in flattering imitation of our Great Leader.
Our credentials are clear. Our hearts are open. Our flight-suit crotches are bulging. We are here to attend the Convention and lovingly declare:
MISSION ACCOMPLICATED!
In the name of global red-nosed resistance,
Colonel Oftruth
Anti-offical scribe,
CIRCA-RNCC