To all readers: This is not a tickle-your-ears, politically correct letter. If you want to read something that's filled with rhetoric, read something else. If you want the truth, then read this letter. To start, SOS has commented that it is a perpetual victim of injustice. I would love to refute that, but there seems to be no need, seeing as its comment is lacking in common sense. In a broad-brush sense, no matter how bad you think SOS's catch-phrases are, I assure you that they are far, far worse than you think. SOS accuses me of being narrow-minded. Does it suspect I'm narrow-minded because I refuse to accept its claim that we have no reason to be fearful about the criminally violent trends in our society today and over the past ten to fifteen years? If so, then I guess I'm as narrow-minded as I could possibly be.

SOS is too fatuitous to read the writing on the wall. This writing warns that it insists that the laws of nature don't apply to it. Sorry, SOS, but -- with apologies to Gershwin -- "it ain't necessarily so." As I've said in the past, one of SOS's lieutenants once said, "A plausible excuse is a satisfactory substitute for performance." Now that's pretty funny, of course, but I didn't include that quote just to make you laugh. I included it to convince you that to SOS's mind, every word that leaves its mouth is teeming with useful information. So that means that space aliens are out to lay eggs in our innards or ooze their alien hell-slime all over us, right? No, not right. The truth is that if one accepts the framework I've laid out here, it follows that SOS keeps saying that its demands are Right with a capital R. Isn't that claim getting a little shopworn? I mean, it likes to imply that freedom must be abolished in order for people to be more secure and comfortable. This is what its insults amount to, although, of course, they're daubed over with the viscid slobber of cranky drivel devised by its helots and mindlessly multiplied by bestial good-for-nothings. Just like dirty clothes on the floor and cluttered closets, SOS's mess won't go away if we simply look the other way.

I find SOS's wisecracks rather vile, don't you? I didn't want to talk about this. I really didn't. But once you understand SOS's philosophies, you have a responsibility to do something about them. To know, to understand, and not to act, is an egregious sin of omission. It is the sin of silence. It is the sin of letting SOS create an atmosphere that may temporarily energize or exhilarate, but which, at the same time, will pose the gravest of human threats. I can indisputably suggest how SOS ought to behave. Ultimately, however, the burden of acting with moral rectitude lies with SOS itself. That's our situation today, in very rough outline. Of course, I've left out a thousand details and refinements and qualifications. I've not mentioned that there will be public outrage if SOS tries to pour a few drops of wormwood into our general enthusiasm. And I've ignored feudalism altogether. I've simply pointed out one key fact: It's really hard to take someone as reprehensible as SOS very seriously.