"I HEARD THE DRONES ON CHRISTMAS DAY. . . ."

     Even a drone should be insulted by the use of its name by the Americans for their random-killing device.  Nature's drones are not exactly workers, but they are life-givers.  Drone bees don't work--except in impregnating female bees.  So life depends on drones, among the bees.

     We call the dull, monotonous under-sounds of  bagpipes and pipe-organs "drones," too--which insults those drone bees.  At least the bag-pipe's drone has a real purpose, though its noise is not necessary to its function.  But there is no excuse for drone of the pipe-organ.  The pipe-organ's drone pretends to be music--like all the grotesque noises sounds the pipe-organ makes.

      And then there are Obama's drones, which are blind murderers.  American GIs don't get killed when Obama uses drones to kill other people.  And those GIs don't have to do the killing.  Obama does it.  And anybody he kills with his drones is--after death--automatically an enemy.

      For Christmas Obama played golf in Hawaii.  His drones, meanwhile, were killing "at least seven" human beings in Pakistan.  Because they are dead, they can be identified as "militants"--by the Militant-in-Chief  and Commander-of-Drones.

     What does Obama have in common with a bee?  I don't know.  And bag-pipes?  I don't know.  But I know what he has in common with pipe-organs:  drones.

     The pipe organ was introduced in Europe in the seventeenth century.  It was a part of the egocentric movement known in history as the Enlightenment.  A pipe-organ enabled one person--one puny little man, in those days--to play all the instruments in an orchestra, and to play so loudly that the noise would fill even the largest building in the world.  That was power.  Never mind the quality of the sound.  A pipe-organ has a number of loud noises in addition to its drones' noise that it can make:  and they aren't very musical.  They are loud, however.

     One organist did--and does--it all.  Made--and makes--all the noise.  Was--and is--responsible for all of it.  And when Obama sends out his drones, he is the organist.

     Maybe his drones on Christmas day were playing "Joy to the World" in Pakistan.  Or "O Little Town of Bethlehem."  Or "Silent Night."

     Of course, in wars leaders, countries, and people kill not just their enemies but anybody--and frequently everybody.  Hitler's buzz-bombs besieged London.  American and British bombers destroyed whole cities in Germany.  America destroyed everybody in Hiroshima, and then just for fun destroyed everybody in Nagasaki.  An American GI burned that little Vietnamese girl alive with his napalm--and some inhuman photographer took her picture while she burned.  Richard Nixon fire-bombed all of Cambodia for a month--at Christmas.  Independent terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center in New York.

     So Obama's drones aren't new, either as an idea or as a weapon.  It's just that nobody before has been so crass and cowardly as to call everybody he killed an "enemy."

     "God rest ye, merry gentlemen! Let nothing you dismay. . . ."