Loose Cannons

Free enterprise

"Collectible cards depicting portraits of victims of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center are due to go on sale next month, leading to accusations their manufacturer is trading on tragedy." — Daily Telegraph, November 22.

Gunpoint diplomacy

"We have to keep, in a sense, a gun pointed to the head of the Iraqi regime because that's the only way they cooperate." — US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice speaking on US National Public Radio, November 13.

Beware of the Devil's music

"When playing music make it soft and sweet. Don't upset others with strident tones or an irregular beat" — "Constable Care", in a WA Police advertisement. Constable Care, a police PR cartoon character, usually warns children not to talk to strangers and to take care while crossing the street.

The living dead

"You have the idea that what you see there is a soul leading a body a soul pulling a body." — Joaquin Navarro-Valls, spokesperson for Pope John Paul II, Catholic Times, November 15.

From Green Left Weekly, November 27, 2002.

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From GLW issue 518