They have a bed railing on your bed so you don't fall out at night. They feed you, like a baby, because you might hurt yourself with a spoon or fork. You can only watch one station on the television, therefore, you don't even know who Scooby-Doo is. Yes, the other children in school talk about him, you just smile and nod, not having any idea what they are talking about.
You're embarrassed to have friends over.
When you were a year old, your mom took you to the grocery store. She sat you in the seat part and wheeled you around while she shopped. It was fun, until the big bully walked up to you and slapped you in the face - hard!
It was that day that everything changed for you.
Your parents, out of self-proclaimed love, keep you sheltered. They are veiled in secrecy. They took your bedroom door off, so they could always see and hear you. People that look at you are now considered "potential smackers", your parents keep them in the basement where they torture and keep them indefinitely. They feed you the fear of everything, they demand that you bend to their wishes, they threaten you with that "smacker" if you do not. It's all, of course, for your own good.
Your parents are the deciders. They do their will without ever thinking about what you want or need. You have no privacy, no say. If you try, you are accused of aiding the "smacker-man". Then, they point at you and call you names and again, you lose one more piece of privacy, one more right, one more thread of self esteem.
Had this been a true story, we'd all be screaming child abuse. But, is it a work of fiction?
Now, let us pretend you're all grown up and your parents names are Cheney and Bush.
WASHINGTON - A Senate resolution opposing President Bush’s war plan on Iraq put the White House and Republican leaders on the defensive Wednesday as they scurried to prevent a trickle of GOP support for the measure from swelling into a deluge.
Eager to avoid an embarrassing congressional rebuke of the president’s new war strategy, the administration seemed to hint that the effort — led chiefly by Democrats — might somehow be of assistance to terrorists. They also herded GOP skeptics to the White House, where they tried to allay the concerns of Republican lawmakers including Sens. John Warner of Virginia, Sam Brownback of Kansas, Norm Coleman of Minnesota and Susan Collins of Maine.
“What message does Congress intend to give?” asked White House spokesman Tony Snow. “And who does it think the audience is? Is the audience merely the president? Is it the voting American public or, in an age of instant communication, is it also al-Qaida?”
I think the message congress should give is this: We've had enough of your fear mongering, war waging and bullying. We aren't going to take it anymore. 'Nuff said?
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