tibetan extremists should invade

From the borders of the USA, invaders start pouring in. Every one of them unarmed and marching quietly. They respond to no prompting. Eventually, one of them is shot for not responding. He does not even flinch. After his body jerks back with the force of the bullet in his shoulder, he rights himself and keeps marching. That image is played again and again on the news. Not one of his fellow marchers even looks his way. Our forces open fire and many of the invaders fall. Again, not one of those still moving even acknowledges the fallen or slow their pace. Those on the ground simply chant something unintelligible to those inspecting the fallen bodies. The tabloids rush to print that we've been invaded by zombies. The truth is we've been invaded by Buddhists. They are trying to live the words of their master. They don't come to convert. They are marching on Washington DC so they can sit on the lawns there and meditate. They will not leave until the USA has seen what the force of will set to peace can do.

The US rails on its news stations that it cannot allow them to simply march in like this. They will all be arrested. However, after dragging the 221st limp chanting body from the lawns of DC, the futility of putting them all in prison becomes clear. They go on chanting there and make the other inmates nervous. The President goes to the UN and demands sanctions against Tibet and other nations whose citizens have marched on US soil. The UN points out that they have done nothing but trespass and many US citizens have now joined them in their march and meditations.

The US economy kicks in and now the meditators are being marketed. With no response from any of them about what kind of cut they would need, many tour firms and television shows are simply pumping out images of the fields filled with people in simple seated posture over every medium they can. Now the fields are also filled with camera wielding vacationers. Fat children start throwing things at the seated people to see if they will move. It is reported that there have been sexual acts committed on some of the women late at night right in the open as they sit and do not move. Not missing a beat, MTV's punked producers get a show on the air where contestants try and get meditators to flinch using whatever means they can concoct. Shirts, mugs, hats, trays and everything else that can be silk screened appear all over with images of the meditators. Slogans of support, derision, confusion and stupidity are slapped over, under, next to and on top of the images. PBS and NPR start airing a documentary about them. Not to be out done, the Science Channel and Discovery Channel band together to air studies being done on the flocks of people.

One night, they all begin to leave. The press rabidly questions them as they go. People are followed home and harassed for weeks. Homeland security bars every person who participated from a foreign nation from entering the US again. The unanswered questions bubble over in the media. Larry King practically dies screaming at people on his live coverage of the exodus. Preachers in the evangelical heartlands preach a triumph of the Christian ideals of the US over the godless. And when there are no more of them on the lawns and the images disappear from the televisions people start to think - "about what, I have no idea!" to quote the late Mr. Dangerfield.