Nuestro Himno

So the man who goes about tossing off the word Freedom the way Tinkerbelle spreads pixie dust, says we’re not free to sing the national anthem in Spanish. It’s important, says the nitwit in chief, that we not lose our “national soul.”

Try as I might, I have no concept of what a national soul might be particularly if one sees a soul as something permanent. Our national consciousness has changed markedly since we first called this collection of colonies a nation. The Historian Bush however, seems not troubled at all with delving into the national psyche as it has evolved. He’s a simple man whose opinions have the firmness only ignorance can provide and when he says soul, he means language. He means that he’s afraid that this notoriously monolingual country may be what it has always been: a country where many languages are spoken to the chagrin of those who barely speak one.

"One of the great things about America is that we've been able to take people from all walks of life bound as one nation under God. And that's the challenge ahead of us."

Indeed – we took many of them bound in chains and used God to teach them submission, but even so, that “Nation under God” pretension didn’t arrive on the Mayflower. As most of us know and all of us as old as I am know, it was Dwight Eisenhower’s mid 1950's gift to the religious right who were afraid of losing their gravy train to the Communists. In 1954, George was still a spoiled 8 year old brat from Connecticut soon to grow into a spoiled, alcoholic coke user from Texas who hasn’t been able to think too clearly ever since.

From the beginning, God was used to deprive Americans of their rights, particularly as concerns liberty and the pursuit of happiness and of course God is still here to tell us just whom to persecute. There are few other factors that divide this nation against itself more than God and George is here to tell you, God wants us not only to speak English, but insists that we not translate that mediocre bit of “star spangled” patriotic fluff into any inferior languages that God does not like. It's going to take more that some skinhead anglo supremacist fascist twit like George W. Bush to take my freedom away from me and you can sing that in any language you like.