the price of free speech...

 

I grew up around public opinion
it was a strange and mottled thing
all the colors and stripes of life,
a blend of all voices upon its timid tongue.
It has been fed to grow and while naturally shy
yet so much attention each second and fourth year
It seems to shine like the greatest of fascinations.

It was the anchor that dragged an awful war
until the ship-of-conflict ran aground
public opinion stood like the stand at New Orleans
when young America found a stone walled  will.

But in recent times it has been battered
abused and terribly despoiled; when her dim eyed guardians
failed; she became the victim of a false crusade
so many bombs bursting in meaningless airs
and New Orleans fell beneath the sea...

Treated so shabbily, even by those once so adoring
now they put on skirts to mock it , and paint it
in colors that frighten and warn, but none so much
as those it holds most dear.

Poor public opinion and now those that
worship at the altar of a vengeful,frigid love
have given her over to those who speak
from the fattened  land of profits, while many suffer
they grow great, deciding the fates of pieces of the world.

Oh, poor public opinion, where to rest our weary frame
when the mountains that make war come to take you?
Where will you go...the back alleys, ahh, yes
will be safer than Main Street,  and the ballot boxes
will frighten you...they will look like the boxes you once knew
covered with flags, one by one come home...
to your tearful refuge.

Now, you will sink beneath waves of tainted green
here when truth comes to auction
Public Opinion, you can do nothing more,
if you cannot pay the price of freedom...

I last saw public opinion on a rooftop howling at the moon
it was a dream, I am sure, but the lonesome desolate sound...

made me weep.

Thank you, George Bush ...

So they convinced another young man that his calling in life was a senseless act of violence, and the multi-billion dollar setup that George Bush invented and foisted on a then 'still reeling' American public, the one we pay for as a line item on every airline ticket...the one we wait in line for a few times on a typical trip; yes that one. It, that made a WWII veteran sit and take off his artificial leg to pass through a check point..ahhhh yes, I remember it all now; good George ..that one, who made us safe from terror. Each day that went by with a different color for fear was a victory in the war on terror. Least mind that despite the billions to contractor friends of his puny days mis-running the government. So you see, we really are not safer because we hassle every American citizen who gets on an airplane because...gasp shock... this wave of idiots is from largely somewhere else, the middle east, Yemen, those hot spots of 'noise', that the Bush system takes in and ignores. Like the troop of middle east men who wanted to learn to steer and fly but not land a passenger jet. This troubled young man in the air above Detroit, from a wealthy family in Nigeria, gives us a warning, like the people who blew a hole in the basement of the Towers, a warning to do better.

We now have to really do, what we have already paid billions to do, and this theme will repeat itself over the next several years; we will discover more and more things that were supposedly fixed --- --- in reality not ever touched.

But to rely on anything that George Bush's Administration did, is a far greater peril than the doubt-filled future..it's a mortal lock, something critical and vital...was left undone

right to bear arms

The founding fathers had not seen my fellow Americans driving cars, sixty mph on the next man or woman's bumper, teenagers with beer or marijuana, behind the wheel; middle aged men in pickup trucks and slow reflexes, with beer and amphetamines, behind the wheel; soccer moms with multitasked lists for their multitask lists, on the cell phone, behind the wheel; and of course: can you say ROAD RAGE...sooo if they act this way with their cars, a State licensed but dangerous instrumentality, why should I trust them with handguns [as an idea i would describe it in two words: IN SANE]. Yet, the wise justices of our Supreme Court ( and this is only a name has nothing to do with how good they are) had enacted just such a thing, but before I get into it, next blog, maybe... back to the founding fathers. They passed the Second Amendment after the Revolution and to give rights to the men who fought the war; something they had neglected to do...the right to vote for example was limited to men who owned property or wealth of certain types or amounts, most of those fellows who shivered and starved at Valley Forge didn't qualify to vote, imagine a democracy where the citizens don't get to vote for their President...oooops... Florida... Bush Brothers...[that could be a movie sort of like the James Gang]...oh well...the right to bear arms, the militia.. if they had wanted every one to have a right to own a gun, couldn't they have just ...said so...Every man has a right from God to own a gun...they didn't; soooo wonder why the US Supreme Court finally found an individual freedom that they liked... they didn't much care for speech, or privacy, or all those freedoms lost to the WAR BY tERROR ... OK ...NEXT TOPIC ...the new right to bear arms, or how much is that armor in the window?