Some Americans are calling for the CIA to be dismantled, calling it America’s “domestic terrorist organization:” since the CIA often engages in terroristic methods, like blowing stuff up, killing democratically-elected leaders and setting up fascist puppets who take bribes without question, and inventing new and wonderful ways to kill, like the poisoned pen, the exploding bowtie, crack cocaine (to send American black youth to prison forever), and undermining everything a ‘democracy’ is supposed to hold dear.
There are British people who feel the same about MI5 and MI6 and MI007. If they engage in the same methods as those of the enemies they’re supposed to despise, then are they no better? And if they are protected by law, then is the law worthless?
So many questions, but none more important than this paradox:
Is James Bond a terrorist?
Oh sure, he may be a misogynist, an alcoholic, a racist, a compulsive gambler, a reckless driver, a man capable of millions in property damage, and a murderer for the British Crown … but he’s Bond!
Who’s next? Pussy Galore? Don’t you dare, people who are taking things realistically instead of fantastically! We all need fantasy to live – how else do you think religions are survived this long?
The debate heats up. If Bond is a terrorist, then Pussy Galore – the enemy of my enemy – HAS to be a good, wholesome gal who just likes to fly airplanes over Fort Knox. She’s a pioneer aviator – Bond is the pariah!
No answers are forthcoming about the lives of the CIA or MI6 or Bond James Bond. On which side of the aisle do you stand? Are you shaken … or stirred? Will Moneypenny ever get to leave her office and be her own Pussy?
