[CHOOSE TRUCE:] -or- [HOW SYMMETRY CAN WORK FOR ME:]
August 24, 2003, 23:59

{dawn}
[MESSAGE RECEIVED:]
Meriam Webster is a fink.
He’ll rat you out too.
or as they say in the tape worm biz: “Veni, Vidi, Vici.” 

[BULLHORN:]
Mayoral candidate, James “daddy” Cancer, delivers speech for the propsed: “Statewide campaign on Karma crackdown”

(present)
Comrade President David Justice
Comrade Chairperson Giant Mantis
Esteemed guests 
Ladies and gentlemen
Comrades 

J. CANCER: Good morning, it’s your Daddy here! 
(crowd cheers)
Now, now, now well well well…Daddy think, 
Before the beginning, the Karma Agency said it is committed to the fight against poverty. 
And chose US as it’s soldiers to fulfil this commitment…
In the beginning, K.A. promised a better life for all. 
And then THEY elected US as the people trusted to deliver on THEIR promise.

Daddy say, the people have had enough of the Karma tricks. WE don’t need Karma, karma only need US.
Why, In the Western world, WE won the election because you said enough is enough. 
And now the Karma Police, once again, need to continue with the task of rebuilding a City ravaged by decades of brutal oppression and evictions. Who is going to do it?
Daddy asks you…are you gonna do it?
(crowd hisses with irritation)
so Today, as mental defectives, as poor people, as Daddy’s children…
We must reunite to take charge of our lives, Comrades! 
We must replace the uncaring local government of the Karma control. 

Give the power to daddy, oh, give it all to your daddy!
(the crowd draws silent)
(J. Cancer clears his throat)
I mean…They’re trying to STEAL YOUR WATER! 
Especially given that this happens in the holy month of Ramadan! 
This is deplorable! Deplorable and sick! 
(Esteemed guests nervously claw at their collars)
How inhuman and how disgusting! 
Can The Karma Police really claim to speak for ALL THE PEOPLE? 
No, the K.A. simply doesn¹t care for people.
We must all, as Christians, Muslims, Jews and Hindus say no to insensitive Karma rule. 

Get up with a sense of urgency.
Get up with a sense of destiny.
Go and vote early. 
Go and vote for your daddy! Vote for cancer! 

(screams of disarray) 
(citizens storm the streets)
[BULLHORN:]
Contact Karma control, contact! 
The Duchess has been poisoned!

{midday}
[official notice regarding surgery:]
The procedure was done in according to the operative report and anesthesia record noting: Dr. Tom Johnson. The anesthesia was given by a Certified Registered Nurse anesthetist #1. No M.D. anesthesiologist is listed. That places a higher burden of supervision on the surgeon.

During the 2 hour and 35 minute anesthesia, The patient was placed in the upright seated position, and symmetry was assessed.
Dr. Tom Johnson then set to work sucking out the aforementioned poison. 
DR. TOM JOHNSON: “Do I mind? Well I guess you could say my job SUCKS. (audience laughs) No, no, I did my best and it’s just luck, in a bull’s ass, that it was a success.” 

At the conclusion of the operation, The Duchess proclaimed:
"Leave, leave Geometry every last one of you, 
for saliva will be converted from gold to iron, 
In the point of dying those who will plot, 
Symmetry will march against Salvation.”

[CLASSIFIED:]
Karma reports regard the poisoning as an assassination attempt. The sources of the infraction are not officially stated, although speculation revolves around the upstart mayoral candidate, James ‘daddy’ Cancer. 

In response the the circling rumor vultures, Daddy Cancer issues this defense:
J. CANCER:
"the french may have their penny candy
and a woman’s devotion may cost a pretty nickel 
but so what?"

{sundown}
"There is symmetry all around us, from the nano- to the micro- to the macro-scopic."

gone peepin’

{dusk}
[TRANSCRIPT FROM MEETING OF SECRET SYMMETRY CHAPTER:]
[DECODED:]
[INVESTIGATION PATTERN:]
SR. Asthma Agent, D.B. Horn: “assasination wrong? please let’s be reasonable! Now, any symmetry that we've come across in our research has proved entirely logical; 
‘symmetry in the environment you live in can be submitted.”
Such as, Symmetry elements in all photos must be identified.
Now, if we apply the power of symmetry to dictating the public, how can we be stopped?”

UKRAINE ROY: “I water at mouth. Currency. Street signs. Alphabet. Butterflys! Oh kiss me deadly! Entire nation ruled by power. The power of de symmetry!” 

BROOKLYN BATH: “The symmetry assures him he may soon arrive at the same good fortune; he furnishes him with money; he is then at his mercy. The advantages of the symmetry advance with the rank of his master, who in acquiring one fortune generally spends three. But this is not the worst of it: he is in a state of dependence under the symmetry, who commits acts of violence and oppression through him. The servant then does only as his interest prompts him to; under the symmetry skirt, wreckless with greed. But he is no longer a man, he only lives by the umbilical authority of the symmetry.”

SAVAT LA ORLIEN: “This obese man has a point! I mean, take a look at what happened to South Korea. They invested everything. Everything into symmetry. Sure, it made them strong at first, but they were arrogant. They thought they could bite the mighty hand that made them so strong. 
Look at their flag, (pulls out diagram of S. Korean flag) 
The flag of South Korea exhibits a kind of anti-symmetry, or symmetry with a property reversal. The circular symbol in the center, called the yin-yang, represents opposing forces in the universe, or in their case, the power struggle of South Korea and the stains of symmetry. It is anti-symmetrical because of the red/blue yin-yang and the broken line interface. 
But how soon we forgive!
They, meaning the South Koreans, forget that symmetry is a greedy mistress and marks all of her servants like a rabid canine. 
We are fools to dance with such a demon.

LT. CPT. ROMAN CANDLE: “I disagree. The people. Do they see if there be any thing tyrannical in their disposition towards their superiors? Do they see if they are not good and humane masters: Are they not charitable? Are they not generous? Are they not hospitable? If they cannot see this, then they must be contemptible members of society.
The power foreplay between inferior and superior, it is the inferior that has it easy and their conduct should strictly courteous: There is no reason why we, the superiors cannot merely…use…take advantage…manipulate…er, befriend such an immense power as symmetry? I mean look how well it worked with the atom! so may we not conclude, that if we have made a mistake, it has been because we have given too much freedom to the inferiors: they were once men but placed in situations subject to little or no control.
It is time for order, again: for the people’s sake.”

SANS MONARCH: The campaign against egotism is already underway, it will not take much to convince the people that their petty activism is making a difference, when their very lives will be riddled with the very power that they are ultimately fighting for and against. 
We call it the “tread water” approach.

DEMOGRAPHIC MAITRON: “and lest we not forget that Daddy Cancer has the highest approval rating since Kitsch!” 

SR. Asthma Agent, D.B. Horn: “So then it’s settled. Ring up Sweden. Tell them we are signing on.”
UNI-DENT SNAKE: “Semper fi, symmetry.”
[END PATTERN:]

Czech your master. 

{twilight}
[STATEMENT BY KARMA CONTROL:]
Police Chief Carlton Abbott:
“We have just received word from Sweden that opposing forces have tried to manipulate the power of symmetry for mass control. Until The Karma Control can fully look into this matter, avoid the following symmetry servants:
Letters
Numbers
All kinds of Aesthetics
Art
Wallpaper
Televisions
Nature
Mirror Images

Citizens, do not be alarmed; the process of symmetrical control, although highly hypothesized can be explained scientifically:
“A quantum field theory treatment requires the process of renormalization, which removes certain mathematical infinities and inconsistencies from the quantum approach. This process also makes the molecule's energy levels discrete, or quantized, rather than continuous. 

Examining the system this way, the researchers found that the scale invariance broke down. In fact, a large body of existing evidence, both experimental and numerical, supports their conclusion. 

While all other known quantum anomalies occur at high energies (an example is chiral symmetry in nuclear physics), the work suggests that quantum symmetry breaking can occur at much lower energies, in the domain of interacting electrons and molecules.”
(based on PHYSICS NEWS UPDATE, the American Institute of Physics Bulletin of Physics News Number 568, December 7, 2001, by Phillip F. Schewe, Ben Stein and James Riordon.) 

Until further instruction, Check your master. 
Thank you for your continuing support of Karma.”

[END VIENNAGRAM:]