<img attachment="capt.f36fbd99d4094a8cbe3bb9d0288a3222.anti_peace_sign_wxs301.jpg" align="left" class="frame" caption="Threat to Civilization">The War on Christmas has begun. The opening salvo of 2006 is brought to you by this article, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061127/ap_on_re_us/anti_peace_sign" source="Yahoo News">Woman faces fines for wreath peace sign</a>, which brings us the sad tale of Lisa Jensen, who was lying her face off when <iq>said she wasn't thinking of the war when she hung the wreath</iq> (pictured left). Her arch fiend---and the enemy of a peaceful Christmas---Bob Kearns, said in a phone interview that he couldn't allow it because it would pave the way for other forms of expression, like saying we should <iq>drop bombs on Iraq</iq>. As if the thought of us dropping bombs on Iraq wasn't ludicrous enough, imagine trying to work that into a Christmas motif! It's not just about Christmas, though, according to the homeowner's association---to which Lisa's hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of real estate debt are inextricably bound---they <iq>will not allow signs, flags etc. that can be considered divisive.</iq> Sounds like the American way, all right. Something called the <iq>architectural control committee</iq> has the final say on all forms of self-expression in the neighborhood. When a five-person committee determined that it was just a fucking wreath and what's the big fucking deal? and that it's fucking Christmas, fer Christ's sake, Kearns had them all <span style="text-decoration: line-through">shot</span> fired. Welcome to a brave new world in the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Age-Access-Hypercapitalism-Paid-Experience/dp/1585420824/sr=8-1/qid=1164649526/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-8039364-0011826?ie=UTF8&s=books" source="Amazon" title="The Age of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where all of Life is a Paid-For Experience by Jeremy Rifkin">The Age of Access</a>.