There Once was an Old Man

There once was an old man sitting on a bench on the Mall in DC, crumpling up news papers and throwing them over shoulder. I asked him what he was doing and he said "I'm keeping the wild elephants away." I said "Sir there aren't any wild elephants on this side of the planet." He replied "See how well it works!"

This story about protecting from virtually non-existent threats was brought to you by the war profiteers featured on CNN today in this post Commercial jet flies with anti-missile system