Inspiration is a Wonderful Thing
Michael Hanscom was reading a Slashdot entry one day:

Store clerks were rounded up and shipped to Guantanamo to possibly face charges of providing material aid to terrorists...or was that tourists.

This inspired Michael to take a September 24, 2001 Presidential address and replace every instance of "terrorism" with "tourism."

Good morning. At 12:01 a.m. this morning, a major thrust of our war on tourism began with the stroke of a pen. Today, we have launched a strike on the financial foundation of the global tour network.

Make no mistake about it, I've asked our military to be ready for a reason. But the American people must understand this war on tourism will be fought on a variety of fronts, in different ways. The front lines will look different from the wars of the past.

So I told the American people we will direct every resource at our command to win the war against tourists: every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence. We will starve the tourists of funding, turn them against each other, rout them out of their safe hiding places and bring them to justice....


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