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Thanks fer sharing this poem last year, my FRiend, but I wonder if you still feel America is "lost" as we watch the Coalition Forces' arrival CELEBRATED JOYOUSLY in Iraq?! Admittedly, the pendulum has been swinging AWAY from FReedom for the last 40 years, but once the War on Terrorism is far enuff along to be called "WON", don't you agree that the inevitable RestorationOfRights legislation will restore Liberties that have been squandered away fer generations?!

"Paradise Lost, Again" by J.J Lindsey

Do you remember what John Milton wrote?
a great poem of note,
he called it Paradise Lost,
we now know what that cost

Now a second Paradise is going away
because we’re being led astray
Americans don’t question anymore,
they accept any political whore

How sad, how very sad
to lose the freedoms that we had
what’s that you say?
has my mind gone astray?

Well let’s review what I write,
hopefully it will shed some light
as liberty takes flight,
while the thieves work through the night

I see laws being passed,
assuring our freedom will not last,
done in the name of security,
soon, we’ll no longer be free

They passed the “patriot law”
and finance reform,
each is flawed,
serfdom will be the norm

Free speech will be restricted,
demonstrations interdicted,
a czar will judge our intent,
we’ll wonder where our freedom went

These people are truly evil,
intent on causing upheaval,
in our values system,
fulfilling their mission

Look what they’ve done to our nation
taking over our schools,
they are an aberration,
turning out non-thinking fools

That’s why the Clintons walk free,
also Terry Mac, Reno and Kennedy,
they’re all involved in serious crimes,
yet not one is doing time

The majority have been put to sleep,
having been molded into sheep,
except for us who speak out loud,
refusing to go along with the crowd

Maybe we’ll win, maybe we’ll lose,
it depends on what Americans choose,
will integrity and honor prevail,
will these criminals be sent to jail?

And the beat goes on

Copyright © 2002 By John J. Lindsay. All Rights Reserved.
October 25, 2992

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194 posted on 10/26/2002 1:18 AM EDT by poet

"don't you agree that the inevitable RestorationOfRights legislation will restore Liberties that have been squandered away fer generations?!"

Mud, my friend, there shouldn't be a need for a "Restoration of Rights" because these rights should not have been taken away in the first place. The Pres and both houses of congress violated the Constitution passing these laws, thus violating their sworn oaths to uphold it.

IMO, the seat of economic power will reside in Rome in the future. GATT and NAFTA & especially the WTO is part and parcel of the Bushs' (and their cohorts) New World Order.

If memory serves, GATT received only 4 hours of debate in the Senate which was a "lame duck" Senate AND controlled by the republicans. Imagine that, Mud, 4 hours to pass a TREATY that will affect us for years to come. Don't you think that was a betrayal of the American worker? I do!
Many companies moved their operations after the passage of these two obscenities.

BTW, it will be interesting to see what Corporations get the Billion $ contracts to restore Iraq at the expense of the American taxpayer.

Unless we take back our schools away from the Feds and the incompetant "teachers, American children will be dumbed down. Destroy the minds of children and you destroy the country.

Kids come in my store and say a thing is "bended" instead of bent and when they play a game, they say they "won" him instead of beat him. At least ten kids have said that to me (I hold YuGiOh card tournaments in my store every Saturday).

I ask them who the Sec of State is and Sec of Defense and they don't know.

To repeat, unless we take back the educational systems to the local level, I still feel the same as I wrote in that poem.

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