WHAT NEXT?

What Next?

Scarlet Letters? Branding? Gold Stars?

Dubya just canít leave bad enough alone. Bad enough the economy is in the shitter. Bad enough there are fewer employed Americans now than when Dubya took office.

Bad enough there is a health-care and coverage crisis in this country.

Bad enough he and Cheney-Burton (et al) are being exposed for throwing a war on their own behalf and betterment, against a country powerless to sufficiently defend itself.

Bad enough that over 500 American soldiers are dead, more than half of them having gone to their death after Dubya declared the war over, the battle won. Bad enough the deaths spread beyond Americans, and that this war (the one Dubya said weíd won) continues to expose soldiers and civilians to harm.

Bad enough that this war of Dubyaís volition has sacrificed or brought wounds and physical harm to hundreds of Americans, an unknown number of Coalition forces, and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians. And in doing so, Dubya and his minions have given energy and incentive, even momentum and basis to the terrorist forces who hate ìThe Great Satan,î and who perceive the US as an imperialist monster, intent on quelling their theocratic initiative.

But then again . . . . a good feeling of Jihad by them turban types against this virtuous and right country under the protective leadership of Dubya . . . . this provides him with a reason to explain to good Americans with family values why those turban-wearing people are our enemy. Theyíre different. They are a threat.

Now threats, those are bad things.

Just like them sinful, unnatural homos. The ones who threaten family values. Yep, theyíre such a threat that Dubya decided to follow his handlersí advice, and tell the good people of this country that he wants to protect them and their children from unnatural and anti-bible sex acts with an amendment to the Constitution.

Hey, forget about the economy, the war, the joblessness, the health care crisis! Dubya is protecting Americans from Jihad by those turban people, and from those dangerous queer types, too!

Yep, Dubya knows what to do. Heíll institute and legislate against a second class of citizens. Them faggy-lesbo types (as big a threat as them turbans, for sure) wonít be allowed to marry, or have the benefits of marriage, no way. That would undermine and threaten all things that are good and right.

And once the Dubya machine gets going, who knows what else they will come up with.

Will prayer in schools ña prayer to a higher power on the Dubya list of acceptable higher powersó be reinstated? Will those who choose not to pray, or to take part in such prayer, be sent to reform schools?

Or will they be branded, so that their differences and unnatural ways are clearly evidenced to all good and right people (read: those who agree with and fall in under life as it should be according to Dubya and his people)?

Will alternative religions be damned and legislated against on a national level, once Dubya and his people get those scary, threatening faggots and dykes out of the way?

Maybe a separate state, or internment camps in some out-of-the-way locations, would be a good place to house these threats, the maladjusted types, these people who are different.

No decent American will dare to be different under a second term of Dubya. Heíll make sure that conformity is the rule of law.

And maybe Dubya will rename the Republican Party, and declare it to be what it really is under his stewardship: The Xenophobic Party.

A vote for Dubya is a vote for the X-Party. Brand-X, the way of Dubya.