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The Madness of King George

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The Madness of King George

England’s George III and America’s “W”

The Perils of History’s Parallels

By: Dr. Leonard Carrier, I.H.H.P

DW”s  In-House Historian and Philosopher

            King George III of England suffered his first attack of Porphyria in 1765.  This is a disease resulting from an insufficient supply of hemoglobin. In 1766, an enraged King George, in an attempt to punish the American colonies for repealing his Stamp Act, pushed through the Townshend Acts, which raised taxes on many staples, including tea.  This resulted in the Boston Tea Party and afterwards the American Revolution.   Porphyria is a debilitating disease that interrupts nerve impulses to the brain, causing psychiatric symptoms, epileptic convulsions, and finally death.  King George suffered all of these reverses, becoming more and more deranged, until he finally died at age 82.  His fits of rage directed at the colonists’ attempts at self-rule, and his intransigence in negotiating with them, were probably some of the consequences of his disease.  So it is likely that King George’s madness played a large part in causing the American Revolution and the resultant loss of his colonies, leaving England much the poorer for it in both riches and power.

We do not have to use much imagination to see striking parallels between King George III and our own version of a king, President George W. Bush. According to intimates, our King George is also prone to fits of rage.  No one wants to bring him bad news for fear that he will explode.  His intransigence shows itself in his refusal even to talk with the leaders of Iran, Syria, or North Korea.  He asserts that Israel won the war over Hezbollah in Lebanon, even though Israeli leaders are saying that Hezbollah is stronger than ever.  He insists that we have got to “stay the course” in Iraq, even though he hasn’t clearly said what that course is; and he declares that our troops will remain as an occupation force for as long as he is president.  He announces that he will continue warrantless wiretapping of Americans, even though a Federal judge ruled that it was against the law.

Even with laws that he signs, he issues “signing statements,” asserting that he reserves the right not to follow these laws.  He declares that the only way to support our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan is to support his “war on terror,” and he says that if we are not with him in this war, then we are, in effect, supporting the terrorists. With our King George, there is no room for reasoned dissent.  We can now imagine how colonial governors, and his own Parliament, felt when they tried to reason with King George III.

Such fits of anger, such stubbornness, such examples of black-and-white thinking, such imperious disregard for the Constitution (of which he reportedly said was just “a piece of paper”), such callous disdain for all those who disagree with him, might just be attributed to sheer bone headedness on the part of a child of privilege who never had to work a day in his life, a bully boy who was always allowed to get his way—including wriggling free of his commitment to the Texas Air National Guard during the Vietnam War because he was apparently afraid to fly F-102s.

Up until recently that was my own take on why George W. Bush behaves the way he does.  Now I’m not so sure, because there are other things about his behavior that can’t be explained in so simple a fashion.  First, there is his inability to speak a grammatical sentence unless he is reading it off the teleprompter.  Next, there is his tendency to make jokes about things that are not funny; for instance, pretending to look for weapons of mass destruction in his own office. There is also his habit of blinking rapidly when he is nervous and contorting his face when he tries to think of what to say.

He wasn’t always that way.  When he was running for governor of Texas he spoke fluently and without notes.  He was quick-witted and was never at a loss for what to say.  He possessed excellent coordination than enabled him to fly jet planes.  He was a different man from what he is today; and since he has just turned 60, such a striking change in facial appearance and behavior cannot simply be attributed to age.  George III was 47 when he suffered his first attack of Porphyria, and he was George Bush’s present age three years into the Revolutionary War, when he was really losing his marbles.  We are now three years into the war in Iraq, and it is now a good possibility that our King George is losing his marbles, too.

I do not raise this possibility lightly.  I would prefer to be angry with George W. Bush for what he has done to our country, even to the point of hatred.  But if he is really suffering from a disease, then he is more an object of pity, rather than hate.  I don’t really feel like pitying George Bush; I’d rather hate him.  But there is mounting evidence that he suffers from what a medical doctor recently described in a letter to the Atlantic magazine.  According to this letter, Bush suffers from “presenile dementia.”  It is most likely caused by a series of “transient ischemic attacks” (TIAs), or several mini-strokes.  These are usually caused by “atrial fibrillation,” (AF), or irregular heartbeat; which, in turn, is caused by hyperthyroidism, or Graves disease, a condition suffered by Bush’s father and mother.  Bush’s recent strange behavior—falling off bicycles, giving German Chancellor Angela Merkel an uninvited neck massage–can simply be explained by tracing it back to a hereditary condition, most likely aggravated by Bush’s alcohol use (and probably cocaine, as well) when he was much younger. There is also the visual evidence presented by Democratswrite foreign policy editor, Dusty Schoch, that Bush wears a defibrillator to keep from having AF, and thus to prevent more TIAs.

So when the question arises whether I feel safer now than I did before 9/11, my answer has got to be a definite, “No.”  I felt safer before I entertained the possibility that my president might be a madman.  Before that, I imagined that his advisors would keep him from making colossal mistakes that would lead us into World War III.  That hopeful thought was clouded over when Bush overruled Condoleezza Rice’s attempts to get an early cease fire in the war between Israel and Hezbollah.  Now all that comes to mind when I think about our president is mad King George III, simultaneously losing his mind as he loses his empire.

 

Leonard Carrier

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