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The Most Important Thing I Learned in School This Year

by By BILLY WILSON Sunday, May. 23, 2004 at 2:14 PM

The following is an essay written by a High School sophomore in Freyburg, Maine, as the essay part of the final exam in his English class. His teacher sent it to CounterPunch as an example of the uprightness of modern youth.

May 20, 2004

You Can't Mock the President or Say "Balls"

The Most Important Thing I Learned in School This Year

By BILLY WILSON

The following is an essay written by a High School sophomore in Freyburg, Maine, as the essay part of the final exam in his English class. His teacher sent it to CounterPunch as an example of the uprightness of modern youth.

The most important lesson I learned this year in school is to pay attention in class and not to doodle while the teacher is talking. The worst thing you can do is draw a picture that shows President Bush's head on a pole with blood gushing out of his bulging eyesballs. If you do something like this, it means you're probably going to blow up the Oklahoma Book Depsitory, or fly remote conrtrol planes into the White House, like the CIA did on 9/11. Even if you're only 15 like me, you can hijack a bus (like Sandra Bullock did in that cool movie, Speed), and drive it into the Bush ranch at Waco, and burn all the children to death.

I learned that drawing pictures of the President with his arms growing out of his head is no laughing matter. It's bad to make the President look stupider than he already is. You can't draw him writing memos on wide-ruled paper with a crayon, or dressed up like a cowboy and playing with toy pistols in the Awful Office. That type of humor isn't funny. You can't make him look like Alfred E. Newman from Mad Magazine, with blood gushing out of his ears.

It is OK to draw a picture of Saddam Hussein on all fours, with Condolisa Rice in a furry African bikini and rings around her neck, holding the evildooer on a leash, and Donald Rumsfeld whacking him on the behind and making him bark like a dog, because that's just a frat prank (like the sexy girl soldier Lindy English did at that prison in IsraelI mean Iraq). But the President is God, which is why his picture is on the dollar bill, and why you can't make him look like an elephant like those soldiers did. You know. Kneeling with his feet up in the air and one finger in his nose and the other in his anus. That's really bad.

You can't draw the president's face on a stick, even if you make it look like a lollypop or a Bubblehead doll. You are a bad person if you do that and if you do that, the Secret Police will come to your house at midnight and make you stand on a box with a shopping bag over your head and electrodes attached to your generals. Then they'll bulldoze your house into dust! (Which is way cool to see them do that on TV.)

If you make fun of the president that means you hate him and are a enemy combatant. The president has so much to worry about, like his physical fitness and if he takes his sedatives on time, he doesn't need some wise-ass kid sneaking into the Lincoln bedroom at night and fucking his wife (you shouldn't say fuck), or his really cute daughters, who drink a lot and fall down at parties and are pretty easy. The president was bad too, like his daughters, before he learned that Jesus wanted him to kill all the Arabs. The president is truly blessed, so you can't tell your freinds you made a videotape of him masturbating and sent it to Seymour Hersh. You can't do that, because one of your friends may be an informer for Homeland Security and then they'll chop your fucking head off!

What I learned this year is that the President is not someone to mock. Even if he is an idiot and a war criminal who deserves to be hanged, and even if no one in the media has the balls to say so. (You shouldn't say balls either.)

Billy Wilson

Billy Wilson can be reached through his teacher at: redspruce@comcast.net

http://www.counterpunch.com/wilson05202004.html

Hoax

by Walker, Texas Plumber Sunday, May. 23, 2004 at 4:54 PM

This disgusting garbage, were it really written by a high school sophomore and not a HOAX. was no doubt "helped along" by "Billy Wilson's" unidentified teacher, probably some freelance a-hole from the Weekly World Socialist without the balls or eggs to identify his/er self.

Not that the attitudes expressed don't actually exist. Oh no. Unionized government teachers (motto: "Excellence nor competence required") have all day to fill young skulls full of mush with liberal propaganda and protest fantasies instead of the math, science and (actual, not liberal revisionist) history they'll need to compete in a global economy.

Down with state-run education.

Maine is better than Texas

by Penobscot Pete Sunday, May. 23, 2004 at 5:03 PM

Get back in your bombshelter crybaby. I'll give you the all clear when the fascists have destroyed America

It's not a good day until at least one clown uses the f-word: fascist

by Walker, Texas Plumber Sunday, May. 23, 2004 at 5:43 PM

To he knows who:

Maine has a bit of a problem with "brain drain," people graduate college and leave the state for good. Nobody sane wants to stay in an anti-business, ultra-liberal wonderland.

Now the Somalian immigrants have your gas-pumping job. You have nowhere to go but South.

That is, if you weren't posing as a Mainer.

It's no wonder

by pedestrian Sunday, May. 23, 2004 at 5:53 PM

The word fascist come from fasi or the bundling together of sticks.

Mussolini used it to describe the joining together of corporations and state power,

Sound like any place you know?

funny

by more rational Sunday, May. 23, 2004 at 9:07 PM

This is one sick kid. I like the way he thinks.


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