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in the open and a lot better than they were forty years ago, and a growing recognition, even in official quarters, that victimless crimes should be removed from the books or subject to minimal penalties. This trend towards sanity has brought the last-ditch dedicated shits out into the open, screaming with rage. Victimless crime, the assumption that what a citizen does in the privacy of his own dwelling is nonetheless someone else’s business and therefore subject to denunciation and punishment, is the very lifeline of the right virus. Cutting off this air line would have the same action as interferon, which blocks the oxygen from certain virus strains.
    M.O.B. opponents cling to the victimless-crime concept, equating drug-taking or private sexual behaviour with robbery and murder. If the right to mind one’s own business is recognized, the whole shit position is untenable, and Hell hath no more vociferous fury than an endangered parasite.
    The Reverend Braswell, in the Denver Post: ‘The United States shouldn’t be forced to accept perverted sexual practices under the guise of human rights. I refuse to say we are dealing with human rights, we are dealing with sexual perversion. Speak out against these filthy dreamers. The Civil Rights Act is national suicide. The God of this Universe, He doesn’t change. God’s attitude to wrong is the same since Adam. The Bible classifies homosexuality along with murder, stealing, inventions of evil ruthlessness and God hatred. Homosexuality is an abomination to God and should never be recognized as a legal human right any more than robbery or murder.’ And a letter to the Editor: ‘We should reform the marijuana laws by making them tougher. President Carter’s proposal to scrap Federal laws relating to marijuana is shocking.’
    One is tempted to seek a total solution to the shit problem: Mass Assassination Day. M.A.D. Slaughter the shits of the world like cows with the aftosa. Then we’ll all feel a lot better. ‘It was like being cured of clap after twenty dripping years,’ a survivor reported... Perhaps we could accomplish the salubrious work with a virus designed to attack the already occupied RIGHT centers in the brain, inflaming and irritating these centers so that the target, muttering and finally screaming imprecations, dies in convulsions of Tightness. It was known as Righteous Fever; old men need it special.
    Here’s an old fuck in his British club, writing a letter to The Times demanding the restoration of capital punishment and the whipping post and recruitment of all layabouts and ‘hippies’ into a labor battalion — suddenly he bares his teeth and shouts at the top of his voice: ‘BLOODY HIPPIES!’
    Shocked faces look up from newspapers as he falls to the carpet, kicking and spitting blood, his pants steaming with urine and excrement.
    ‘Well now the Reverend he preaches up a pretty strong sermon and that’s all right up to a point, but folks want to go home and eat lunch ... so when he gets on about the sinners in Hell, how their very bowels burst open in the fire throwing hot shit all over each other, “wallowing in their own boiling filth” as he put it, Old Man Brink got up and said “I think we’ve heard about enough of this, Reverend.’”
    ‘But the Reverend is bellowing out the Battle Hymn of the Republic:
    ‘“He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored —”
    ‘He shits in his pants and spits blood ten feet, and everybody sees his pants is sticking out in front all indecent and the Sheriff says “He must be an abomination from the Bible to pull these scandals,” so we burned the Church with the Reverend in it.’
    Probably the most effective tactic is to alter the conditions on which the virus subsists. That is the way various manifestations of the RIGHT virus have disappeared in the past, as in the Inquisition. Conditions change, and that virus guise is ignored and forgotten. We have seen this happen many