Sci-Cops had to maintain confidence in the laws of nature and economics by canceling Mr. McGuire's article and eradicating all traces of his research. Unwilling to call the whole thing a mistake, Mr. McGuire and his advisor have been relocated to the People's Freedom Factory #93 in Ching Jiang, China, where they are reported to be happily producing tennis shoes and stuffed animals for their American peers. And McGuire's advisor has finally been granted tenure - at the Dong Chao Freedom Through Labor University.
After silencing McGuire's work, Sci-Cops had to work fast to determine if natural laws really were being broken. If so, the violators had to be punished and stopped. It took several months of tough work, but thanks to the dedicated work of Sci-Cops teams and the FBI, the source of ceramic junk and many other forms of garage-sale trash in upstate New York was soon pinpointed to a single home in Rochester, where a reclusive Middle Eastern man held weekly garage sales where he virtually gave away hundreds of thousands of knick-knacks. Further surveillance finally proved that he was receiving secret shipments smuggled into New York from a shipping company with various Middle Eastern ties. Fortunately, the laws of nature were being followed - only less important U.S. laws were being violated.
Over the following months, Sci-Cops agents identified 50 other homes across the country that were receiving similar shipments. But why? And from where? It wasn't until the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War that government agents learned the truth. During surveillance visits to Iraqi factories suspected of producing nuclear weapons and nerve gas, U.N. officers were astonished to find instead huge factories producing absolutely worthless junk - Celery Head Salt Shakers, Barry Manilow serving bowls, black velvet Elvis paintings, and worse (information about neon hair dyes are provided on the related page about the Hidden Henchmen of Hussein). Documents were discovered revealing that these items were being smuggled into the United States. The Federal Government worked with the U.N. to suppress these findings while they scrambled to understand what it all meant. Sci-Cops acted on their own to understand by busting a few of the local distribution centers and interrogating the occupants in the friendly but effective Sci-Cops way, electrodes and all. One Iraqi man finally confessed, admitting that the distribution of junk was part of an Iraqi scheme to demoralize Americans and disrupt our way of life. Americans, being greedy, would surely buy almost anything if the price was low enough. By selling pure junk at garage sales, the Iraqis could introduce vast quantities of worthless products into American homes, which would cause marital stress and ultimately result in a new wave of garage sales to get rid of the junk. The junk would cycle endlessly, passing from one garage sale to the next, and during every cycle some spouse would say, "You bought what? More junk? Good grief!" The lost productivity as American held wasteful garage sales and the family stress caused by the junk would all contribute to a weakened society and a weakened GNP. As Americans became surrounded by worthless items, there would be less space for valuable items, causing harm to American industry. This was terrorism, in a sense, but not the kind with explosives. It was a quiet, subtle, but terribly perverse form of aggression: "subliminal terrorism."
Sci-Cops agents, acting as patriots, organized to infiltrate and track the work of other Iraqi agents. To their horror, they soon discovered that much more than garage sales were involved. There were actually thousands of secret Iraqi agents in the United States participating in hundreds of diverse acts of subliminal terrorism, all intended to demoralize, depress, irritate, and stress out Americans. Were it not for Sci-Cops, they might have succeeded. The foul and sinister plots of these Iraqi agents are revealed for the first time on the page about the Hidden Henchmen of Hussein, also known as Saddam's Shadow Soldiers. You can't afford to ignore the evidence, for you may already be a victim of a new and deadly threat, subliminal terrorism!