Osama's fate: an embellished chat...

toreibjo:   Tell me about your fantasies regarding the punishment of Osama.

notforprophet:  Well, I have a very strange fate for him.

toreibjo:   Explain - if I may be so straight forward to ask..

notforprophet:   Most people would not appreciate my vision...but I'll try to convey it to you…

Capture him.  Transport him blindfolded and clueless to an incarceration facility.  A cell...anywhere...perhaps one especially constructed for him below the ruins of the World Trade Center.  But with no daylight...no night...no nothing. 

Yet once a day, he gets a visitor. 

I walk in and up to a table unarmed--no weapons.  I pull up a chair and sit...and just stare...and stare...one hour...two hours...  Just stare at him.  Then I get up and leave.  Next day, the same…and the same and the same for an endless slew of days to follow.  

If at anytime he wants to make a move on me, I’m ready.  Maybe he'll read in my eyes that what I really want is hand-to-hand combat to death.  But I don't make the first move.  I wait for him...and stare...expressionless. 

Then one day, after he begins to show cracks of disorientation from continued isolation, I walk in, sit across from him as always, stare, and after about an hour finally speak and ask him: "Do you have any idea  what's going on in the world anymore?"   Regardless of his response, inform him:  "It's better that you don't--ever."  Then I'd pull out a pistol—a Colt 9mm Commander—and position it exactly between us.  And finally smile with that smile that pleads "make my day ."   And then wait to see what he does.  Does he make a move?  I know I'm faster.

But if he doesn't make that move and end it for himself right there—by my hand or his own (i.e., getting the pistol and putting to his own head)—then he'll live always with this regret:  I'll pick up the pistol and walk out.  And he'll never see me again—or any other living creature for the rest of his natural life.  He'd have that one chance to die—or remember it forever as his very last contact with humanity.  

I'd rather destroy his terror-spirit than his body.

Hey, we could even have this all fed live by hidden camera on TV so the whole world could watch him seal his own fate either by his ill-challenge for the pistol or his own moment of inaction leading to an unsuspected, unexplained terminal isolation.   In fact, the TV commentator could reveal to the world the strategy I'd use before the action-challenge is actually made, telling everyone what Osama's options will be,  and the to-death isolation fate he'll condemn himself to if he chooses inactivity.   The commentator would speak in kind of in a quiet whisper, like a golf sports announcer, "Okay...here's what's going to happen…this is going to be good…"

Better than the suspense on any imaginable "Survivor"!

I'm enchanted by the notions of wandering, a walk-about, an odyssey: casting forth in full preparedness for an encounter with the Unknown. 

Too much perhaps are we all constantly tagged, fixated, routinized, and ritualized into arrangements where such adventure seemingly becomes improbable, even if still desirable.

My own personal feeling is though I'm palpably well-ensconced into an apparently static social-economic role (or roles lol ), in a blink of an eye, new adventure can and shall eventually unfold.

Yet while I wait patiently as if with the instincts of a stalking wildcat for this newly-birthing moment of old-world-shattering opportunity to become manifest, I still enjoy an Odyssey in surrogate.  And here's one for all of us:

2001 Mars Odyssey

Named in honor of Arthur C. Clark, the author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Odyssey is our technologically-proxied return to the Red Planet.  As a satellite that last night achieved orbit around Mars and is expected in the coming months to aerobrake into an even more optimal circling pattern, Odyssey will attempt to further expand the human spirit’s quest for cosmic attainments by conducting scientific queries in pursuit of the following goals:

1) Determine whether life ever could have arose on Mars (indirectly by the search for water)

2) Characterize the climate of Mars

3) Characterize the geology of Mars

4) Prepare for human exploration

Of course, this last quest is the one of supreme interest to me. 

All I can say is, before I go off romping on a walk-about in the previously unsullied Martian dust, I want to post an inviolable sign: 

“Terrorist-Free"

space renditions courtesy of NASA JPL, click here for the 2001 Mars Oddysey website