Within days of the attack, e-mailed jokes, many of which having seen wide circulation as evidenced by the countless forwards attached to them, began flooding in-boxes both at home and around the workplace - making for a kind of home-grown "peoples propaganda" that has pointed a satirically defiant finger in the face of death.
From the must-seen image of a rebuilt trade center constructed to resemble a giant hand with the center tower appearing like an upraised middle finger to the popular cartoon parody of the calypso "Banana Boat Song" which shows Colin Powell, accompanied by President Bush on conga drums, belting out "Come Mr. Taliban, turn over bin Laden", the hunt for Osama has been joined by a host of virtual vigilantes who have created such humorous pictures, downloads, caricatures and games bent on such total mockery and ridicule that it's nearly enough to make even the most hardened extremist give up in frustration.
Like "bin Laden Liquors", one of the first and most popular sites with online Osama bashers, where players step up to wreak havoc in a shooting gallery setting, many of the pranks are violent in nature with an underlaying amount of humor in the same vain as the Warner Bros. cartoons which poked fun at Axis enemies like Hitler and Tojo during World War Two. A psychological defense mechanism that diminishes fear by lessening an adversaries menace with sarcasm and satire.
One of the web's best practitioners of those afore mentioned tacticts has been Yo Mamma,Osama!, a game produced by the site Twistedhumor.com where cyber warriors hunt down the title character with cannonballs - a favorite diversion among internet surfers which saw the game downloaded more than 100,000 times during it's first 12 hours online.
For those seeking a little variety to their black humor, Newgrounds lists a collection of links to over 60 games and short animated movies while the brashly titled Osama bin Laden Sux" packs almost 100 pages of doctored photographs and artwork. Some, like the image depecting an angel weeping above ground zero, are quite touching. Others, such as the one showing a stealth bomber soaring over the Afganhi landscape bearing the caption "What kind of idiot brings box cutters to a gunfight?" are wickedly clever.
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