From: "Faris Jawad" <ana_faris_bila_jawad@hotmail.com>

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
Israel I 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 *****.
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-***** kid sneaking into the Lincoln bedroom at night and
fucking his wife (you shouldn't say *****), 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

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

From: "Faris Jawad" <ana_faris_bila_jawad@hotmail.com>

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
Israel I 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 *****.
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-***** kid sneaking into the Lincoln bedroom at night and
fucking his wife (you shouldn't say *****), 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

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