Break out the rifles, Myrtle, there's tax cheats about!

From the ever-perplexing AlterNet, this terrifying piece of shit:

A Lot of Our Money Is Buried in the Cayman Islands -- Let's Get It Back

The Cayman Islands are well known to those seeking sun, sand and sea--and for their hospitality to US corporations seeking to escape taxes, launder money and use other discreet financial services. The islands' tax dodgers help multinational corporations move jobs offshore; they also give aid and comfort to terrorists, drug dealers and divorcing spouses trying to hide money. Honest taxpayers have to make up for the revenues lost through this offshore cheating in three ways: we pay more in taxes, we get fewer government services and we incur rising government debt. Interest on that debt, which doubled under the Bush administration, now equals all the individual income taxes paid from New Year's to around June 10. And that cost means less government investment in research, education and the infrastructure on which commerce depends. Untaxed money hiding in the Caymans and other tax havens means the rest of us pay a higher price for less civilization.

In short, the Caymans, and other tax havens, are parasites that weaken the United States and other developed nations.

President Obama proposed on May 4 to crack down on offshore tax cheating; that proposal does not go nearly far enough. Instead of settling for a dime on the dollar, as Obama's plan would do, let's get serious about offshore tax cheating, both legalized and criminal. Let's do what we did to halt the imagined threats of communists in Grenada, depose a drug-dealing president in Panama and find those imaginary weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Let's invade the Caymans!

The islands, which belong to Britain, have no military and just 300 or so police. An invasion force composed of tax lawyers, forensic auditors and a handful of computer technicians could execute a hostile takeover without firing a shot.

It's "our" money, see - these "tax cheats" are burying it on some island paradise in ... well, wherever the hell the Caymans are. They've no right to do that, it's our money! So let's just send in the Marines, liberate those ones and zeros from those evil tax-cheating computers, and be done with it.

Let's by all means invade the Caymans.

Honest, at first I thought this guy was being ironic. The more I read, the more seriously psychotic the article became. And the comments. Oh god, the comments. I keep hoping I've fallen into some Bizarro world, that my own plane of reality isn't filled with such people. But ... well, probably not so much.

To review:

let's get serious about offshore tax cheating, both legalized and criminal. Let's do what we did to halt the imagined threats of communists in Grenada, depose a drug-dealing president in Panama and find those imaginary weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

It doesn't matter, then, if the "tax cheating" is even legal - send the Marines. It doesn't matter if every other time .gov has done that - 'imagined threats of communists', 'drug-dealing [and American-financed] presidents', 'imaginary weapons of mass destruction' - the causes have proven to be and are admitted by this invasion-happy moron to be fraudulent. That doesn't matter. This time it's the right thing to do. It's our money; the people who earned it are just holding it for us, and in this case attempting to hold it from us. Send the Marines.

I'm gonna go hang myself now. This is just too depressing.