A leading civil-rights organization spoke out today against "the ongoing crusade" in the United States and warned that unless corrective actions are immediately taken "the future will be bleaker than at any time in the past two hundred years."
 
The American Association for the Protection of Strawmen (AAPS) issued a statement today that they were very concerned about the direction of the presidential election.
 
"Things usually get heated around this time of year," the statement said.  "But since the conventions, our offices have seen a surge in attacks on Strawmen.  Since John McCain announced his VP nominee, over six thousand strawmen per day have been tortured and murdered.  We are particularly concerned by reports that both campaigns have been caught abducting strawmen from their homes."
 
The AAPS took the unusual step of naming several leading suspects in the ongoing attacks on Strawmen.  "Particularly reprehensible has been the behavior of some so-called 'Mainstream Media' figures, who have killed four or five strawmen per show over the past few weeks.  We estimate that Keith Olbermann, Daily Kos, and Time magazine are responsible for at least 10% of all Strawman-related violence."
 
A spokeswoman for the AAPS urged Americans of all political stripes to set aside their hostility for strawmen.  "It's time that we realize that strawmen are just like us, with hopes and dreams for the future, and we should allow them to realize those dreams without living for fear that someone will jerk them up and destroy them in front of a howling, frenzied crowd without any regard for logic or reason." 

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