BY CHARLIE CLAUSEWITZ

A CHILD in a small school in the mid-western United States has been severely scolded by teachers and the arrested by US Government officials for asking a question that has been deemed “treason” by many of his elders and betters.

“The little fuck had the gall to point out the damned obvious in an open class,” said Captain Randolph Alternate, a US special forces control expert based in Poland. “Jesus, does he want us to lose this war? I blame the parents. Why aren’t they in custody?”

The child, who cannot be named for legal reasons, is in custody at a CIA black site in Eastern Europe, and may face a life sentence in a Federal penitentiary or a future digging for vegetables in Guantanamo Bay, if he is convicted of anything, or if the President decides he should be dealt with in that fashion.

When asked about habeas corpus, a covert operative who has been working in Russian said: “Oh, fuck habeas corpus, man. We’ll enhance the little shit’s interrogation for a while, waterboard him, give him the Abu Ghraibh treatment, then disappear him for a while. You gotta understand, his betrayal is profound. You just can’t ask questions like that at critical moments in a great counter-offensive. You just can’t. Know what I mean?”