What's
in a Name?
Americans profess to be increasingly appalled at the
behavior of Mr. Bush and his entourage. Yet in all their
protestations, even the leading lights of the anti-Bush
movement completely miss the point.
A point best illustrated by using the metaphor of a
tree. We know that a good tree produces good fruit,
and that a bad tree produces bad fruit. And if the root
is rotten, so are the branches.
Now, the bad fruit of falsehood and destruction coming
from the Bush administration is no more than the natural
outgrowth of rottenness rooted in two fraudulent national
elections. Thus, the entire structure of government,
and the surreal fallacies propagated through media tentacles,
are grounded in this one lie.
Yet the lie is protected, and the rotten fiction cloaked,
even by Mr. Bush's detractors, in the falsifying language
of naming him "President Bush," or "the
President," instead of what he really is, "White
House occupant, George W. Bush."
This is not a question of mere semantics. A law of
nature is at work here. And until the naming issue is
addressed, going to the heart of the problem, the most
Bush's opponents can hope to achieve is trimming the
branches!
February 2006
