Over the last year, the Monitor has written few editorials. Unbelievable things were happening so fast it was not easy to be current. But when we heard this week that the Centers for Disease Control had been presented with a list of seven banned words/phrases, alarm bells went off. Talk about “1984” and Newspeak – censorship of the government servants warning us about health issues is frightening and unacceptable. The banned words/phrases: vulnerable, entitlement, diversity, transgender, fetus, evidence-based, and science-based.
With that in mind, we offer the following: Twas the night before Christmas and all through the land, Not a creature was speaking – those words had been banned. Health agents were hung by the study. Don’t care? It serves as a warning to all – best beware.
Corporations were nestled all snug in their beds, As bright visions of windfalls danced through their heads; And Trump in his silk suit and very long tie, Had just settled down to tweet another big lie.
When outside the White House arose such a clatter, Trump sprang from his keyboard to see what was the matter; Away to the window, he flew like a flash, In hopes, he’d be able to make some big cash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow Lit up Huckaba-Sanders putting on quite a show. When what to my wondering ears should appear But a dictate to press, “Now you must listen here.
“Write down these exact words For they’re all you will get: Donald Trump has decided,
So you best not forget.
“’ Science-based’ is verboten; it cannot be written, And ‘evidence-based’ likewise is forbidden. Our facts are alternative, that we submit, But since we’re in control, you must just deal with it.
“And now that the CDC voice has been silenced We’re ready to move on to all those in defiance. We’ll control all the networks, the Post and the Times, We’ll tell you the news, and make sure it all rhymes.
“Now Newsweek, now Politico, turn in your recorders, We won’t allow any more truth-based reporters.” Back up in the residence, Trump chuckled with glee,“I’ve shown them,” he said, “they all answer to me.”
His eyes how they twinkled, his minions how merry, He danced as he sang, “No one’s smarter than me.”His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow, And the hair on his head was as stiff as old snow.
He was chubby and plump, a right foolish old elf, And I laughed when I saw him – then stifled myself. A wink of his eye and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had everything to dread.
He spoke many words as he went to his chopper, They all were insulting, but here’s the show stopper: (I wish I could tell you exactly what he said, But, remember, reporting has been declared dead.)
He sprang to his copter, to the crowd gave a wave, And away they all flew, the whole world to save. But I heard him exclaim ere he flew out of sight, “Happy Christmas to me, ‘cause I always am right!”
Here’s hoping the CDC ignores the dictate and reports honestly to the public the facts we all need. Surely that is what Christ, whose birth is celebrated this week, would want. Mark 12:39 KJV, “And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.”
Merry Christmas, and God bless us, every one.
