Baby Bush go home

[rodeodance]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Baby Bush go home

Arundhati Roy
Wednesday March 1, 2006
The Guardian


On his triumphalist tour of this part of the world, where he hopes to wave imperiously at people he considers potential subjects, President Bush's itinerary is getting curiouser and curiouser. For his March 2 pit stop in New Delhi, the Indian government tried very hard to have him address our Parliament. A not inconsequential number of MPs threatened to heckle him, so Plan One was hastily shelved. Plan Two was that he address the masses from the ramparts of the magnificent Red Fort where the Indian prime minister traditionally delivers his Independence Day address. But the Red Fort, surrounded as it is by the predominantly Muslim population of Old Delhi, was considered a security nightmare. So now we're into Plan Three: President George Bush speaks from Purana Qila, the Old Fort.

Ironic, isn't it, that the only safe public space for a man who has recently been so enthusiastic about India's modernity should be a crumbling medieval fort?
Since the Purana Qila also houses the Delhi zoo - George Bush's audience will be a few hundred caged animals and an approved list of caged human beings who in India go under the category of "eminent persons". They're mostly rich folk who live in our poor country like captive animals, incarcerated by their own wealth, locked and barred in their gilded cages, protecting themselves from the threat of the vulgar and unruly multitudes whom they have systematically dispossessed over the centuries.

So what's going to happen to George W Bush? Will the gorillas cheer him on? Will the gibbons curl their lips? Will the brow-antlered deer sneer? Will the chimps make rude noises? Will the owls hoot? Will the lions yawn and the giraffes bat their beautiful eyelashes? Will the crocs recognise a kindred soul? Will the quails give thanks that Bush isn't travelling with Dick Cheney, his hunting partner with the notoriously bad aim? Will the CEOs agree? ......

[Quakerfriend]

1. He really can't go anywhere in the world anymore except to his

'wurking' facade of a ranch in Crawford.

Makes me laugh to picture him in the zoo. My great Uncle did a cartoon strip in the early 1900s entitled 'Z00-Illogical Snap Shots'- He would have had a ball with this one!

[Virginia Dare]

2. Say hello to our future...

where the rich live in "gated communities" isolated and disconnected from the rest of us poor schlubs who must scratch and fight for what's left.

[shrike]

5. I was thinking the same thing n/t

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. "George Bush's audience will be a few hundred caged animals..."

Oh man...if ever a thread deserved to be kicked and recommended, it's THIS one.

:rofl:

[rodeodance]

8. i have not heard if the animals were listening

[ewagner]

4. K & R

if for nothing else, just the snark....

[electropop]

6. Wow, excellent writing!

Uh-oh. If he wasn't such a librul, US media might export some jobs in this guy's direction.

[glitch]

7. K & R for Arundhati - plus a direct link to article

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1720309,00.html

[smomfr]

9. Not a sound was heard........

from the chimpanzee cage as everyone there sat at rapt attention listening to their brother speak.