The Buffalo Massacre and the Propaganda of the Deed
There is a popular misconception that monsters are hideously ugly creatures that send us running in the opposite direction when we spot them. That is incorrect. Monsters are not possessed of horns, fangs, prehensile tails, bat wings and cloven hooves. They do not have bolts in their necks or wear built up shoes or bay at the moon. Nor are they particularly stupid. They look like everyone else, like the pastor of your church. Or the little old grandmotherly lady that bakes cookies for neighborhood events. Or the kid that mows your lawn in the summer. That's what makes them dangerous. We don't know until it's too late that they are monsters. There are other misconceptions about monsters. For instance, women are considered the weaker sex and incapable of deliberate evil. This concept ignores the cavalcade of female Nazi concentration camp personnel who perpetrated some of the worst atrocities in history during the Second World War. And children, specifically young teen-age ch