Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Veterans Day
On Veteran's day be sure to support our veterans. They are usually the ones working to provide taxes to pay our beaurocratic government employees to take the day off.
Of course the best way to support our veterans would be to do somewhat different from what we did in the recent election. Our veterans worked, fought, got wounded and died pledged to support our constitution. Most of the politicians we elected and re-elected are there to bypass our constitution and usurp our freedoms. Why do we consistently elect such anti-freedom nannies, tax-mongers and tyrants? Two reasons. One, the people voting do not take the time to become educated about the polititians and the issues and two, too many people do not bother to vote at all.
If you only have 100 people voting, it only takes 51 fools to elect the wrong one. If you have 10,000 people voting, it takes 5001 fools to elect the wrong one. It is always easier to fool 51 people than to fool 5001. There is a poem that has been floating around the net for some time. I have no idea who wrote it, but it is very good. I have put it here ahead of one I wrote that takes current conditions into account. Here they are:
FREEDOM ISN'T FREE
I watched the flag pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everything was still,
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin.
Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free.
WILL WE HELP PAY?
Then I couldn't help but think
Of politicians showing pink.
Freedom paid for so dearly,
Freedom stolen so nearly.
The freedom these soldiers died for,
Stolen by politicians for evermore.
"Why have we died?" the soldiers ask?
As nonvoters in front of TV's bask.
As soldiers die in muddy foxholes,
Nonvoters say, "the weather's too bad to go to the polls."
Politics are boring, I don't have the time,
Echo the nonvoters so warm and sublime.
Ban this, ban that, ban freedom is heard
From the politicians with laws so absurd.
The freedom for which the soldiers died,
Stolen by politicos while voters hide.
"We have given our all" soldiers spirits wail,
"Why do you allow these politicians from Hell?"
The right to vote for which they died,
Ignored by people who have no pride.
Politicians salute the flag in lights,
Then hide in dark halls to steal our rights.
Citizens allow these rights to be stolen,
As soldiers bodies become more swollen.
The soldiers are in cemeteries far and wide,
Where is the freedom for which they died?
Legislative nannies are taking it away
We'll control your rights is what they say.
Don't let those soldiers die in vain,
Make your politicians feel thier pain.
The responsibility is on your shoulders
To preserve the freedom paid for by those soldiers.
The soldiers lie dead fighting enemies without,
Preserve and defend our Constitution they shout.
On our citizens at home they depend
To fight the enemies that are within.
Are you doing your part to supervise your elected employees? To see that they are not allowed to work from within to do what our soldiers stopped outsiders from doing? For our grandparents, aunts, uncles, sons and daughters, freedom was worth dying for. Is it worth some of your time to find out what your politicians are doing and keep them from stealing those freedoms little by little? Or will you just sit by, let them take away our property rights, our individual rights, our God-given rights, all the rights that were supposed to be guaranteed by our Constitution?
No, freedom isn't free. Soldiers paid for it with their lives. We must make at least a little sacrifice to pay for it with our time, with our phone calls, with our letters and with our votes.
Of course the best way to support our veterans would be to do somewhat different from what we did in the recent election. Our veterans worked, fought, got wounded and died pledged to support our constitution. Most of the politicians we elected and re-elected are there to bypass our constitution and usurp our freedoms. Why do we consistently elect such anti-freedom nannies, tax-mongers and tyrants? Two reasons. One, the people voting do not take the time to become educated about the polititians and the issues and two, too many people do not bother to vote at all.
If you only have 100 people voting, it only takes 51 fools to elect the wrong one. If you have 10,000 people voting, it takes 5001 fools to elect the wrong one. It is always easier to fool 51 people than to fool 5001. There is a poem that has been floating around the net for some time. I have no idea who wrote it, but it is very good. I have put it here ahead of one I wrote that takes current conditions into account. Here they are:
FREEDOM ISN'T FREE
I watched the flag pass by one day,
It fluttered in the breeze.
A young Marine saluted it,
And then he stood at ease.
I looked at him in uniform
So young, so tall, so proud,
With hair cut square and eyes alert
He'd stand out in any crowd.
I thought how many men like him
Had fallen through the years.
How many died on foreign soil
How many mothers' tears?
How many pilots' planes shot down?
How many died at sea
How many foxholes were soldiers' graves?
No, freedom isn't free.
I heard the sound of Taps one night,
When everything was still,
I listened to the bugler play
And felt a sudden chill.
I wondered just how many times
That Taps had meant "Amen,"
When a flag had draped a coffin.
Of a brother or a friend.
I thought of all the children,
Of the mothers and the wives,
Of fathers, sons and husbands
With interrupted lives.
I thought about a graveyard
At the bottom of the sea
Of unmarked graves in Arlington.
No, freedom isn't free.
WILL WE HELP PAY?
Then I couldn't help but think
Of politicians showing pink.
Freedom paid for so dearly,
Freedom stolen so nearly.
The freedom these soldiers died for,
Stolen by politicians for evermore.
"Why have we died?" the soldiers ask?
As nonvoters in front of TV's bask.
As soldiers die in muddy foxholes,
Nonvoters say, "the weather's too bad to go to the polls."
Politics are boring, I don't have the time,
Echo the nonvoters so warm and sublime.
Ban this, ban that, ban freedom is heard
From the politicians with laws so absurd.
The freedom for which the soldiers died,
Stolen by politicos while voters hide.
"We have given our all" soldiers spirits wail,
"Why do you allow these politicians from Hell?"
The right to vote for which they died,
Ignored by people who have no pride.
Politicians salute the flag in lights,
Then hide in dark halls to steal our rights.
Citizens allow these rights to be stolen,
As soldiers bodies become more swollen.
The soldiers are in cemeteries far and wide,
Where is the freedom for which they died?
Legislative nannies are taking it away
We'll control your rights is what they say.
Don't let those soldiers die in vain,
Make your politicians feel thier pain.
The responsibility is on your shoulders
To preserve the freedom paid for by those soldiers.
The soldiers lie dead fighting enemies without,
Preserve and defend our Constitution they shout.
On our citizens at home they depend
To fight the enemies that are within.
Are you doing your part to supervise your elected employees? To see that they are not allowed to work from within to do what our soldiers stopped outsiders from doing? For our grandparents, aunts, uncles, sons and daughters, freedom was worth dying for. Is it worth some of your time to find out what your politicians are doing and keep them from stealing those freedoms little by little? Or will you just sit by, let them take away our property rights, our individual rights, our God-given rights, all the rights that were supposed to be guaranteed by our Constitution?
No, freedom isn't free. Soldiers paid for it with their lives. We must make at least a little sacrifice to pay for it with our time, with our phone calls, with our letters and with our votes.
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