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The actual murder scene photo of this novel's subject is hair raisingly gruesome. Absolutely brutal. You can't even make out a face on what's left of the poor cadaver's head.

'When one thinks of San Francisco, one does not think of snakes. This is a tourist town and people come here to look at French bread. They do not want to see snakes in San Francisco. They would stay at home in the rest of America if the loaves of French bread were replaced by snakes.'

'...liberalism has transformed human institutions in the name of expanding liberty and increasing our mastery and control of our fates. And in each case, widespread anger and deepening discontent have arisen from the spreading realization that the vehicles of our liberation have become iron cages of our captivity.'

'In contrast to its crueler competitor ideologies, liberalism is more insidious: as an ideology, it pretends to neutrality, claiming nopreference and denying any intention of shaping the souls under its rule. It ingratiates by invitation to the easy liberties, diversions, and attractions of freedom, pleasure, and wealth. It makes itself invisible, much as a computer’s operating system goes largely unseen—'

'The communist fiends have sought to combat Americanism by turning the concept of an American into nothing more than a civic concept that denotes a salad bowl of alien peoples who share nothing more in common than haphazard residence within the borders of the United States, and by smearing the past and injuring the pride that Americans have traditionally felt towards themselves and where they came from.'

'The concepts that these communist weaklings hate the most are: Americanism, Militarism, and Nationalism. These are the three phenomena that have made America great and strong, and it is adherence to preciselythese three phenomena that is now found lacking in the administration of our nation.'

'Behold, our nation is teeming with communist weaklings sympathetic to all causes save our own. Americans have absorbed the petulant whinings of peoples and nations who wish America off her noble throne atop the order of the world. Our own children are taught from elementary school through college that European colonizers of the New World were invaders, that our founding fathers were villains....'

“I hope so. If you want to be with me, then you’re with me. I don’t want you flirting with every skanky girl that comes into the store. OK?!”
“Yeah OK.”
“Good.” She grabbed his crotch. “Just remember to keep it in your pants bucko. Now get back to work.”
She let go of his jewels and flicked the CD across the counter to the customer, freeing him from limbo.'

'Sargeant is undoubtedly right. In some ways the Matamoros killings were like a gift to fundamentalist groups. It validated their views and brought such groups a level of credence they didn’t previously have.'

Can this author get any more begrudging in this concession? The killings certainly didn't DISPROVE the 'zealots'.

'Mexican authorities were less concerned with Constanzo’s impending resurrection than with making charges stick against the surviving cult members.'

'Although Karimov’s supporters would characterize Tamerlane as a kind, well-educated, and devout Muslim, among historians he is better known as a brutal tyrant who killed millionsof people, ordered his troops to launch severed heads at cities they were attacking, and left behind pyramids made of skulls as a warning, including a pile of 90,000 in Baghdad alone.'

What kind of idiot thinks that National Socialism is the answer to what ails America? To say that America is flawed because it hasn't embraced National Socialism is insane. That's never been what America's supposed to be.

Sometimes satanic panic is legitimate. Here's why:

'Then they opened up a closet. What they found left them dumbfounded. “What the fuck is this . . . ?” they probably breathed as they stood staring at the gruesome sight that confronted them. Preserved in a knee-high jar of formaldehyde was a fully formed, perfectly preserved newborn girl.'

'The first items they found were two skulls, one from an adult, the other from a one- or two-year-old child. The child’s skull was in a cauldron and was coated with rotting flesh, dried blood and candle wax. Rank-smelling dirt, which investigators later came to believe was gathered from a local cemetery, was scattered on the floor. And statues of Catholic saints were in every corner of the room.'

"I like trying new things, but not in my butt.”