NEW WORLD ORDER

Educational eugenics in Bush's State of the Union

Deep into your State of the Siege lecture, long after sensible adults had turned off the tube or kicked in the screen, you came after our children. 'By passing the No Child Left Behind Act,' you said, 'We are regularly testing every child ... and making sure they have better options when schools are not performing.'
You said it ... and then that little tongue came out; that weird way you stick your tongue out between your lips like the little kid who knows he's fibbing. Like a snake licking a rat. I saw that snakey tongue dart out and I thought, 'He knows.'
And what you know, Mr. Bush, is this: you've ordered this testing to hunt down, identify and target for destruction the hopes of millions of children you find too expensive, too heavy a burden, to educate.