Friday, March 11, 2011

The Next Witness, His Holiness . . .

House panel chairman Peter King
Suspects the nation’s Muslims breed
Fanatics who are threatening
Our safety. We’re not all agreed.
But yes or no, who’s he to say,
Once patron of the IRA?

Perhaps he ought to testify
About his insincerity.
The Catholic terrorists' reply
Was murder in the first degree
For those who’d U.K.’s seal affix
Throughout their island’s Northern Six.

If he should care to disabuse
His countrymen of scornful doubt
The first means that he ought to use
Should be what these days gives him clout:
His gavel— tool to keep us whole
And Q&A at his control.

Did not they almost detonate
The then-P.M., Mrs. Thatcher?
“Er, yes, but let me please restate:
No U.S. citizen I’m sure, Sir.”
Wasn’t she a crucial ally?“Not the only—by a far cry.”

So what to do to clear the air
Of Islam-baiting bigotry?
If we’re to be entirely fair
The only course that I can see
To be impartial in King’s search:
Subpoena his own Catholic Church.

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