Atlantic Monthly magazine published its list of the top 100 most influential people in the history of the United States in late, 2006. Among those that made the cut were many of the country's founding fathers such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Abraham Lincoln was rated the most influential person in American history, topping a list which - as could be expected - generated controversy and disagreement. Among notables from recent memory were Martin Luther King, Jr.; Bill Gates; Warren Buffet; and Ralph Nader. Curiously absent from the list were popular contemporary icons who had contributed little to the strength and fiber of the nation, but who - instead - chose to squander their power, wealth and influence on trivial pursuits of the flesh and raw, undaunted materialism. Elvis Presley made the list, even though he had, indeed, pissed away a fortune during his short life span. Perhaps the magazine's committee that compiled the list saw Presley's contribution as the changes his music influenced in America's culture. One of the magazne's chief editors profoundly stated, "It seems that when we die, we all want to be remembered for our philanthropy. Why is it, then, that as we live, we mostly pursue only our own philandering?"
In the days of Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt there was a culture that revolved around God, country, and family. By the time the world entered the twenty-first century, the American culture had been reduced to revolving around an amoral indifference to morality, a lack of true patriotism, and a complete disregard for family values. As much as politicians tooted different horns of eloquence on how we needed to return to deeper human values, the truth was the good ol' U.S.A. was spiraling downward into an abyss of indirection and improbity. Shamelessly bold vulgarity, impudent acts of sensationalism, and querulous personal conduct was the norm; 'common' citizens were influenced by what they watched on television, read in the newspapers and gossip magazines, and saw at the movies. If Tom Cruise could have a child out of wedlock, then so could John Doe. If Britney Spears could appear nude on a magazine cover, then why shouldn't all the plain Janes of the world follow suit? If Mark Foley and Catholic priests could seduce little boys, what was wrong with the average, everyday pedophile doing the same thing? If Andrew Dice Clay could say all those dirty words on TV, why shouldn't the entire country be 'okay' with hearing the "f"-word in routine daily conversation? If O.J. Simpson could get away with murder, why couldn't the guy next door kill his bitch of a wife?
This was the cultural downslide O.U.T.R.A.G.E. wanted to curtail. Such pedantic, quodlibetic excessiveness of personal irresponsibility, avarice, corruption and sheer disregard for humanity had to be slowed. That's why they delivered small home made bombs to homes and offices of government agencies, infamous celebrities, wealthy elitists, and squanderous infidels who held such noxious influence over the 'common' American citizen. It wasn't intended to bring America back to a Puritan state; but the gross excesses that were eating away at the very foundation of the nation had to be subdued before society turned into a contemporary version of the raucous Roman empire whose depraved reprobation eventually destroyed its civilization.