NEW EXTREMES OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS FOR SEATTLE
(…on the cutting edge of lunacy)

Apparently Seattle is the only city in America without major problems of any kind (fiscal-wise, homeless-wise, unemployment-wise, crime-wise, and other-wise), which leaves its City Council members with plenty of leisure time on their hands.

Leisure time which allows them to dream up new extremes of political correctness for Seattle…on the cutting edge of lunacy. Some examples of that being…a decree that henceforth all internal communications at City Hall must be –non-gender specific –, such as replacing the word “penmanship” with “writing” instead, or, “journeyman” with “journey level”, and so on. As to how to properly address a letter to any of them, the only substitution for the usual salutation of – “Dear Sir/Madame” appears to be that of “Dear Nincompoop(s)”. Nothing else seems to fit.

It also decreed strong disapproval of expressions such as “brown bag” or “brown bagging”, as being demeaning and offensive (only to career politicos such as themselves, no doubt, rather than to common working stiffs who use it every day).

Even more extreme was its declaration that, in the name of greater “inclusiveness” it should no longer be referred to as serving its “citizens”, but only its “residents”. Obviously the Council’s members have overlooked that it does, in fact, serve its “citizens” since these are the ones who elected them in the first place, whereas “residents” may not necessarily vote if they are not “citizens”. Thus, while the Council may wish to be more responsive to its “residents”, it only serves at the pleasure of its “citizens” (like…at the next election?)

It should be emphasized here that – political correctness- is an alien un-American concept at variance with our First Amendment rights of free speech, imported long ago from the dictates for proper ideological thought and speech in a little red book published by a late, unlamented, Chinese philosopher named…Mao Tse Tung.

So let us hope the good “citizens” of Seattle will have the common sense to emphatically reject their City Council’s attempt to further extend this kudzu-plant-like alien and pernicious perversion of our American language, by calling on all of their voting “citizens” to join in a massive mail-in of protest. A mail-in of small, neatly folded, brown, paper bags, annotated with the following message:”Just in case you don’t make it in the next election. Politically incorrectly yours.”

That should do it.

CENTURION