One of the CSCS guys dropped this link my way via IM:
To the Citizens of the United States of America
A brief taste:
| In the light of your failure to elect a proper President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchial duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. (Except Utah, which she does not fancy.) Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. |
Humour works best when there is a grain of truth to it. There are many grains here, and the author of this post (or whoever posted it after copying it from somewhere else on the web) has pounded on a number of these little truths. The most evident truth, however, is that The World sat up and paid attention to this election, and The World did not want to see Bush re-elected.
While wandering the streets of Prague this weekend, I saw a number of these signs all over the city. Prague is a very long way from Washinton, D.C., but the people there have opinions, and strong ones. During dinner Saturday night, one of the waiters (after discovering that I was from the States, and even more importantly, from Ohio!) continuously came by our table to express how he felt about the state of the world, and in particular why he felt that Bush had no right to lead America the way he has.
Not a politician, not a diplomat, not even another American–just a Czech trying to make his way through the world as a waiter in Prague who had no love for Bush and the Bush Administration’s policies, but at the same time could distinguish between that Administration and the people of the United States. Granted, I don’t know what would have happened if I was pro-Bush, but we’ll leave that to your imagination.
The World noticed. It’s too bad that most of the time we don’t notice the World.