Letters to the Editor
Breaking the administration doublespeak

The triumvirate of Rove and Cheney/Bush have coined many clever phrases to further their furtive agendas but these phrases are incomplete and deserve scrutiny. By being equally clever and comparing their words with actions, I believe I have cracked the code of their verbal hieroglyphics.

"Stay the Course" means to keep your minds disengaged and follow their course endlessly, even if it leads to wholesale death and national bankruptcy. "Patriot Act" is an act, born of magnified fear, to eliminate many of the freedoms fought for and won by American Patriots. "Amnesty" means automatic American citizenship for anybody from any part of the world, or nearby planted, who is willing to work for near slave wages under near slave working conditions, because "Americans are Unwilling." "Free Trade" is the right of global multinationals to import and export with whomever, whenever and wherever they like, for maximum profits, without being fettered by unions, employment and manufacturing destruction, environmental laws, work laws, or the tax laws. "Protecting our borders" means jailing of American border guards to protect Mexican drug smugglers at the border. "Compassionate Conservative" means to be conservative with you, liberal with me, compassionate with you, if you agree with me, and damning of you if you don't.

"Get the Government off our Backs" is the most clever doublespeak of all. This means to gut, repeal or change all government laws that prevent Big Business from gaining easy and unlimited control of finances, labor, resources, polities and to minimize if not eliminate their taxes. It is their backs, not yours. "Protect the Unborn" is to veil wholesale slaughter of the born. "WMD" is simply oil.

I could go on and on but I am sure that by now you are beginning to understand Administration doublespeak and are no longer dummies.
Ben Pompa
Avoca