I seriously doubt that there are too many folks out there who haven’t heard about Michael Chertoff’s gut feeling by now. That government officials are reduced to using such obscure rationalizations in order to get our attention, I believe really speaks volumes for the sorry state of affairs existing today.

A quick search for the word “gut” happlily confirms my suspicions; the online dictionary of Merriam Webster starts the definition of gut with the word, bowels. I have long suspected that the administration’s facts are rectally sourced or, in other words, they pull them out of their collective asses.

There are obviously reasons that this misinformation would be excreted upon the public, not the least of which is that a frightened populace is a compliant populace. Although I myself have, on many occasions, stated that Bush is “dumber than a sack of hammers,” he and his minions have mastered the Hegelian dialectic. History has shown on many occastions that bread and circuses will serve to placate the masses and frightened people are usually easily controlled and their rights taken away. It also serves to redirect attention from dismal poll numbers and fellow GOPers fleeing the sinking Iraq war ship.

What I consider to be most disturbing is that our fellow citizens can be scared by such silly tactics — I mean seriously … are we so cowed that we give credence to someone using acient Greek theories of humours? What’s next-the White House Office of Witch Doctors and Seers?

I can perfectly understand having a gut feeling of anxiety and nervousness; my stomach seems to be telling me that if we, as American citizens don’t stop obsessing about our iPhones and our celebrities that our government is going to gut our very freedoms and liberties.