Why The Bush Mullahs Fiddled
While New Orleans Drowned
By
Amir Fatir
To comprehend the core of the Bush administration you’ve got to have a clear understanding of the radical Christian right-wingers who control the White House and much of America’s domestic and foreign policy.
There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the mullahs in Iran and the ayatollahs who own and control the executive branch.
Both tingle over an apocalyptic end of the world. Both are incapable of even considering a different point of view. Both arrogantly believe they should determine what behaviour is moral. Both lust over the ability to punish – in God’s name – those they deem to be sinners. Both profess to adhere to a literal interpretation of their holy books. Both would sooner burn in hell than acquiesce to the notion of the separation of Church and State’.
But the Persian clerics had no role to play in Katrina, so our focus properly turns upon their cousins in Washington, in FEMA and Homeland Security.
When you win (or steal) an election, a revolution or a war you get to put your kind of people into powerful positions, usually (but not always) beneath the level of cabinet officer, but near enough to wield real power.
They can make the trains run on time.
Or … not as the case may be.
The Christian cultists who permeate Bush’s White House saw New Orleans as the new San Francisco, i.e., the gay capitol of the increasingly integrated South.
As such they viewed New Orleans – with its pagan Mardi Gras, its mixed race Creole children and its affinity for all things French – in purely biblical terms. It was “the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”
When Katrina pounded the Crescent City the Bush administration was paralyzed – not because they didn’t have resources or ability.
They were paralyzed because they had to wait for marching orders from the Pied Pipers on the religious right to issue the appropriate Fatwas on the 700 and other clubs.
You see, the administration true believers very sincerely wondered if Katrina was quite literally an act of God whose purpose was to chastise those reprobates and cleanse the sacred south of promiscuity, dancing and sex without guilt.
But the Mullahs were, themselves, caught unprepared. How, oh how, do we spin this? If we say what we really believe everyone will call us heartless fanatics. And we’re just getting people to forget that Pat Roberson put a hit out on Hugo Chavez. Hey, let’s lead the Katrina relief effort. Let’s pray on TV, send cameras to Girt Town and the Ninth Ward, and show the merciful side of the evangelical movement. Yeah… that’s the ticket. And think of the donations we can raise. My God! Katrina’s not a curse, God no! It’s a blessing!”
It took some days before they worked out the P.R. kinks and that, and only that, is why FEMA sat idle while New Orleans sunk.
They were waiting for the play to get phoned down from the offensive coordinators in the booth.
The total mismanagement of Katrina illustrates why there must be a vast, oceanic separation of Church from State. Church cripples State. And State pollutes Church.
Katrina’s paralysis should have kicked off a purge of Soviet proportions.
Bush has to begin to wonder what good the Christian Mullahs are doing him.
They thwarted his choice for Supreme Court. They pushed him into a nonsensical war with Iraq. They are costing him the midterm elections. They usurped his power as commander in chief so that he couldn’t mobilize his troops against Katrina until they said it was a go.
Now they have the nerve to threaten the president with “not getting out the base” to vote in the next election for not getting their way with stem cells.
This lame duck has but one option if he wants to regain control of his administration: throw the bastards out.
They’re a very real threat to our national security.
While New Orleans Drowned
By
Amir Fatir
To comprehend the core of the Bush administration you’ve got to have a clear understanding of the radical Christian right-wingers who control the White House and much of America’s domestic and foreign policy.
There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the mullahs in Iran and the ayatollahs who own and control the executive branch.
Both tingle over an apocalyptic end of the world. Both are incapable of even considering a different point of view. Both arrogantly believe they should determine what behaviour is moral. Both lust over the ability to punish – in God’s name – those they deem to be sinners. Both profess to adhere to a literal interpretation of their holy books. Both would sooner burn in hell than acquiesce to the notion of the separation of Church and State’.
But the Persian clerics had no role to play in Katrina, so our focus properly turns upon their cousins in Washington, in FEMA and Homeland Security.
When you win (or steal) an election, a revolution or a war you get to put your kind of people into powerful positions, usually (but not always) beneath the level of cabinet officer, but near enough to wield real power.
They can make the trains run on time.
Or … not as the case may be.
The Christian cultists who permeate Bush’s White House saw New Orleans as the new San Francisco, i.e., the gay capitol of the increasingly integrated South.
As such they viewed New Orleans – with its pagan Mardi Gras, its mixed race Creole children and its affinity for all things French – in purely biblical terms. It was “the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.”
When Katrina pounded the Crescent City the Bush administration was paralyzed – not because they didn’t have resources or ability.
They were paralyzed because they had to wait for marching orders from the Pied Pipers on the religious right to issue the appropriate Fatwas on the 700 and other clubs.
You see, the administration true believers very sincerely wondered if Katrina was quite literally an act of God whose purpose was to chastise those reprobates and cleanse the sacred south of promiscuity, dancing and sex without guilt.
But the Mullahs were, themselves, caught unprepared. How, oh how, do we spin this? If we say what we really believe everyone will call us heartless fanatics. And we’re just getting people to forget that Pat Roberson put a hit out on Hugo Chavez. Hey, let’s lead the Katrina relief effort. Let’s pray on TV, send cameras to Girt Town and the Ninth Ward, and show the merciful side of the evangelical movement. Yeah… that’s the ticket. And think of the donations we can raise. My God! Katrina’s not a curse, God no! It’s a blessing!”
It took some days before they worked out the P.R. kinks and that, and only that, is why FEMA sat idle while New Orleans sunk.
They were waiting for the play to get phoned down from the offensive coordinators in the booth.
The total mismanagement of Katrina illustrates why there must be a vast, oceanic separation of Church from State. Church cripples State. And State pollutes Church.
Katrina’s paralysis should have kicked off a purge of Soviet proportions.
Bush has to begin to wonder what good the Christian Mullahs are doing him.
They thwarted his choice for Supreme Court. They pushed him into a nonsensical war with Iraq. They are costing him the midterm elections. They usurped his power as commander in chief so that he couldn’t mobilize his troops against Katrina until they said it was a go.
Now they have the nerve to threaten the president with “not getting out the base” to vote in the next election for not getting their way with stem cells.
This lame duck has but one option if he wants to regain control of his administration: throw the bastards out.
They’re a very real threat to our national security.
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