Big bully bites tiny tot

THE EDITOR: Once upon a time there was this big, obnoxious bully who was drinking water from a stream. Downstream of this bully a tiny man was also drinking water.

The bully bellowed to the tiny man “Stop drinking water down there for you are polluting the water I am drinking with chemical and biological agents and weapons of mass destruction you are putting into the water.”  The tiny man replied “but Sir, I am drinking down stream from you, so how can I pollute the water you are drinking? And further Sir, I have no chemical and/or biological weapons or weapons of mass destruction.”

The obnoxious bully stopped his drinking of water and came down to the tiny man downstream and bellowed. “How dare you question what I say? I am the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost!” The obnoxious bully commanded that the tiny man had a boxing match with him so as to settle the question of the possession of weapons of mass destruction.

The obnoxious bully produced from nowhere two pairs of boxing gloves. However, before he handed a pair to the tiny man the obnoxious bully pulled a cutlass from his waist and chopped off the tiny man’s arms at the elbows. The obnoxious bully then proceeded to put on his pair of boxing gloves and to beat the living day lights out of the tiny man. After the obnoxious bully defeated the helpless tiny man he found no chemical or biological weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in or near the stream. In desperation the obnoxious bully started squeezing the dying tiny man by the throat, asking, “Then where are the knowledge-bearers of these weapon technologies?” The dying man just gurgled.

The obnoxious bully continued throttling the dying tiny man saying “We are going to liberate you. We are going to give you democracy. We are going to tend to your oil and he said to himself sotto voice “I really mean to take your oil.” All the dying tiny man could do was grasp for breath and flail his truncated arms in the air while he lay helpless and dying on the bank of the stream.

VERNE W RICHARDS
Attorney-at-law