BoarSpear

A Visitor From the Past (Author Unknown)

I had a dream the other night I didn't understand.
A figure walking through the mist, with flintlock in his hand.
His Clothes were torn and Dirty, as he stood there by the bed.
He took off his three-cornered had, and speaking low, he said:

"We fought a Revolution, to secure our liberty.
We wrote the constitution as a shield from tyranny.
For future generations, this legacy we gave,
In this, the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave"

"The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep
But tyrants labored endlessly, while your parents were asleep.
Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave,
In this, the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave."

"You buy permits to travel, and permits to own a gun,
Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one.
On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent
Although you have no voice in choosing how the money's spent."

"Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate.
Your Christian values can't be taught, according to state.
You read about current news, in a regulated press.
You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the I.R.S."

"Your money is no longer made of silver or of gold
You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled.
You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God in shame,
You've taken Satan's number as you've traded in your name."

"You've given goverment control to those who do you harm,
So they can padlock churches and steal the family farm.
And keep our Country deep in debt, put men of God in Jail,
Harass your fellow Countrymen while corrupted courts prevail."

"Your public servants don't uphold the solomn oath they've sworn.
Your dauguters visit doctors so their Children won't be born.
Your leaders ship artillery and guns to foriegn shores,
And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people's wars."

"Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died?
Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride?
Are there no more values for which you'll fight to save?
Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave?

"Sons of the Republic, arise and take a stand!
Defend the Constitution, the Supreme law of the Land!
Preserve our great Republic and Each God-given right,
And pray to God to keep the torch of Freedom burning bright."

As I awoke, he Vanished, in the mist from which he came.
His words were true; we are not free. We have ourselves to blame.
For even now as tyrants trample each God-given right,
We only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight.

If He stood by your bedside, in a dream while you're asleep,
And wondered what remains of our rights he fought to keep
What would be your answer if he called out from the grave?
Is this still the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave?

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That is the 64 million dollar question...opinions anyone? what ya gonna do when the "bad boys" come for you? isnt it funny who the bad boys are these days?

Garland

Amen.

Great poem.

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homo homini lupus

BoarSpear

.................cough, bump.

Sensei Saki

And on your ASS like on your ASS is cough bump.

BoarSpear

oh look the tits are here, and theyre talking about ass ..what up saki?

aseepish

That's precisely the point.

"Mr. President

To messers Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.

Gentlemen

The affectionate sentiments of esteem & approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful & zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, and in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more & more pleasing.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. [Congress thus inhibited from acts respecting religion, and the Executive authorised only to execute their acts, I have refrained from presenting even occasional performances of devotion presented indeed legally where an Executive is the legal head of a national church, but subject here, as religious exercises only to the voluntary regulations and discipline of each respective sect.] Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.

(signed) Thomas Jefferson
Jan.1.1802."

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"It was about that time I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses." -Cortázar

THT

Now you guys are all going to be illegally spied on and taken to camps to be tortured for heresy and somehow supporting a fallen dictator from a country with no wmd's.

I better leave this forum before I become considered a terrorist too!




p.s. I like it here and am not leaving...

aseepish

My God, you're right! I take it all back! I take it all back!

Man, I can't believe it. I was giving aid and comfort to the enemy. I WAS CUPPING OSAMA bIN LADEN'S BALLS!!!

I'll be good now. Promise.

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"It was about that time I realized that searching was my symbol, the emblem of those who go out at night with nothing in mind, the motives of a destroyer of compasses." -Cortázar

THT

Don't worry too much aseepish. I'd like to think that we wouldn't be able to be tricked into supporting a war on Canada. Besides, we can grow trees here and we've got Alaska and some newly aquired other areas *wink wink* for oil.

EmptyneSs

yeah land of the free. we americans are the biggest slaves of all. take that however u want.

Tom Yum

Yeah, we're slaves allright. Just look how you just excercised free speech.