Alan S. Austin
Arizona Playwright • Writer • Poet
  

Carrying a Big Bat (2/02)

Newton's third law states that 'for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.' The Canadians booing the Stars and Stripes fits that bill. The White House is puffing its chest and embarking on a threatening adventure, like a silverback gorilla beating its chest and bellowing its call through the canopy. Like the man in the White House, it's all bluster, good for the tabloids and Fox News and lapped up eagerly by the new testosterone fueled internet politics in America. The country is officially now under the control of a South African and an Aussie, men whose claim to fame is making money out of nothing and who support a failed American businessman around whom flatterers and sycophants run circles. He in turn claims to have been saved by God to wreak as much damage he can on anybody who gets in his way and is entrenching a new political mafia within the government. If, however, the American democratic will is for us to become a laughing stock to the rest of the world, and our President, the new King John without brains, then that's what America should be. Statesmanship, intelligence, diplomacy be damned. Speak loudly and carry a big baseball bat? The reaction?