Letter to the Editor

Klown Museum?

Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Dear Editor,

Politico the Klown was talking to his friends on the Supreme Court one day and says "I am building a Klown Museum. But the location now has a small old house on it and the owner won't sell it to me.

"If I could build my museum there, we could hire two full-time employees and a part-time janitor -- I'm sorry, a building maintenance supervisor.

"Why let one old house stand in the way of growth? Don't we need growth?"

So, the wise judges ruled on a law and in weeks, the small old house was torn down. The owner of the small old house was justly compensated, which almost paid off the bank loan on it.

Now this justly-compensated family, Tom, Mary, Little Rosie and Roger, didn't have a place to live.

The bank, realizing that there was no longer any equity, the house was torn down for the museum, attached Tom's paycheck.

Tom could no longer afford all the cost of Rosie and Roger's school lunches, so he had the school eliminate Rosie and Roger's dessert, which saved $2.50 each a week. It wasn't much, but it helped.

Well, the school principal found out about the no dessert situation and promptly notified child welfare.

Child Welfare acted immediately and removed little Rosie and Roger from the Edsel station wagon that they now called home.

"We can't have these people raising these children with a careless disregard for the standard established by the Bureau of Nutritional Value, can we?"

Tom and Mary watched as the Edsel station wagon was towed away -- town ordinances about abandoned, unlicensed cars or something -- and lost all hope.

Soon, they were no more.

Roger and Rosie were bounced from foster home to foster home until all their crimes were no longer considered juvenile crimes, and off they went to pay their debt to society.

Oh, the museum -- it's now a weed-infested lot with a big sign, old and mostly faded. The sign reads "A friendly, people-minded community."

I'm glad we are taken care of so well.

You can fight for freedom right here, or not.

Bill Coe,

Max

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