Shocking evidence emerged, Wednesday, of the US administration’s continued efforts to suppress popular dissent over its unpopular Middle East policy. Photographs have emerged of one of the country’s most outspoken critic of the Iraq War being forcibly detained at the Guantanamo base in Cuba.

Elmo, the popular character on children’s TV show ‘Sesame Street’, was taken from his Upper Manhattan apartment on Friday and flown straight to Cuba where he was immediately stripped, put into isolation, and made to watch reruns of the ‘I Love Lucy Show’. Human rights activists in the US have immediately responded to what they see as cruelty on an unprecedented scale.

Meanwhile, a government insider has admitted to The Spine that the move is the first in a series of planned arrests of radical muppets, who have been actively working to undermine the government by their campaign of educating the American young.

Retail stores have noticed an increase in the purchasing of Elmo dolls which, through their resemblance to the orange jumpsuits, have become a secret icon of opposition to ‘Gitmo’.

Speaking under the promise of complete anonymity, Marine Sergeant Eugene Billywicker explained: ‘We’re being proactive in hitting these terrorist-loving scum where it hurts. They say they’re innocent but we know there’s somebody working them in the background. But now we’re on to them and are out to get the rest of the gang – Kermit, Fozzie, Big Bird, that little thing that looked like a shrimp but I ain’t sure what the hell it is… We’re out to get them all.’

Developing.

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