Playmobil Security Check Point

A friend forwarded me this link to an actual toy on sale at Amazon today, the “Playmobil Security Check Point“. I’m including the top rated review here so you can see the type of comments that are being posted here. Very funny (and kinda depressing :).. good though).

Customer Review

 

 

335 of 356 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Educational and Fun!, February 27, 2008

By Zampano

Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars

Thank you Playmobil for allowing me to teach my 5-year old the importance of recognizing what a failing bureaucracy in a ever growing fascist state looks like. Sometimes it’s a hard lesson for kids to learn because not all pigs carry billy clubs and wear body armor. I applaud the people who created this toy for finally being hip to our changing times. Little children need to be aware that not all smiling faces and uniforms are friendly. I noticed that my child is now more interested in current events. Just the other day he asked me why we had to forfeit so much of our liberties and personal freedoms and I had to answer “well, it’s because the terrorists have already won”. Yes, they have won.

I also highly recommend the Playmobil “farm fencing” so you can take your escorted airline passenger away and fence him behind bars as if he were in Guantanamo Bay.

Lyrics in my head – Show the Way – David Wilcox

Earlier I mentioned that parts of American Pie had been playing in my head. Now another song just triggered.. signs my optimism is trying to surface out from under the flood of dark anger and sadness. Posting here just cause it’s a good song.. and a good poem. I played this song a number of times on my radio show on WERU after 9/11.

Show the Way – By David Wilcox (coincedentally attended Antioch College ’76-’77)

You say you see no hope, you say you see no reason
We should dream that the world would ever change
You’re saying love is foolish to believe
‘Cause there’ll always be some crazy with an Army or a Knife
To wake you from your day dream, put the fear back in your life…

Look, if someone wrote a play just to glorify
What’s stronger than hate, would they not arrange the stage
To look as if the hero came too late he’s almost in defeat
It’s looking like the Evil side will win, so on the Edge
Of every seat, from the moment that the whole thing begins
It is…
Love who makes the mortar
And it’s love who stacked these stones
And it’s love who made the stage here
Although it looks like we’re alone
In this scene set in shadows
Like the night is here to stay
There is evil cast around us
But it’s love that wrote the play…
For in this darkness love can show the way

So now the stage is set. Feel you own heart beating
In your chest. This life’s not over yet.
so we get up on our feet and do our best.We play against the Fear.
We play against the reasons not to try
We’re playing for the tears burning in the happy angel’s eyes

For it’s…