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Abbie Hoffman once wrote that,"The idea that media is there to educate us, or to inform us, is ridiculous because that's about tenth or eleventh on their list." And in this time of muck raking and military patriotism we have lost all since of what its like to live in a democracy. We have now faceted our time to taking away free speech. By attacking artists and musicians for speaking out against our current state into totalitarianism. When that is the function of art to comment on the current society. We fly our flag half staff and wave it high on our suvs which pump out half as much pollution in a week then a power plant does in two days. But when we feel like our flag is threatened by the right to free speech or assemble guarantied by the constitution which was the bases of our democracy. We attack and feel attacked by the ideology and the flag in which we are so proud of. After 9/11 and the beginning of the war occupation of Iraqi freedom a small group of fourty met to show our rights and our ever dying respect for our president and our country and this war. We met on the main drag a street that moves across the town of Owensboro Kentucky. We were greeted by anger citizens, when we ourselves were suppose to be the angry citizens. But we weren't with our flag and signs of peace and support for the troops and the American way. We set off to prove that this was an unjust war. These angry citizens we were greeted by carried no signs of support of the men and women we had sent to die for the unjust cause. A small child held a sign that said this way to hell great by his mother and father on both sides of him. Their signs read,"Fags burn in hell.""Thank god for aids." This protest had nothing to do with the civil rights of gay and lesbians. This had nothing to do with the idea of religion or the ideals of theology. This had to do with the ideals of this war. I had met one woman in the midst of the crowd shouting "COMMUNIST" or "IF YOU DON'T LOVE IT LEAVE IT"! I had met her in a small dollar general store as I was getting the poster bored for my sign that read, Support the troops bring them home. She was talking to another woman when I over heard the most Hippocratic oxymoron. She said,"They have no right to be there." "Our president is a good man and they just have no right to be there." Of course she was talking about me. Of course she was talking about the small percentage of Americans who look beyond the current fads of military patriotism and our presidents lies. I was shocked and had an appalling look on my face. Some on said to her. Well of course they have a right to be there this is America.
"Well they may have a right to be there, but they just don't."
On the day before 4th of July I felt like it best to write and document our ever dying independence and constitution. I mean this is what we are celebrating tomorrow. But as your lighting your fireworks understand that the fire works that the solders are seeing are not of vibrant colors. They are of blood shed and pain. I would ask for a revolution of America. But revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. And the American spirit of today will no long have the rights that were offered by the constitution and our for fathers. But as you celebrate with your family tomorrow understand what you a celebrating. Industry and fat corporate conglomerates that serve bad food and that are just out to get your money and independence.
"Well they may have a right to be there, but they just don't."
On the day before 4th of July I felt like it best to write and document our ever dying independence and constitution. I mean this is what we are celebrating tomorrow. But as your lighting your fireworks understand that the fire works that the solders are seeing are not of vibrant colors. They are of blood shed and pain. I would ask for a revolution of America. But revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit. And the American spirit of today will no long have the rights that were offered by the constitution and our for fathers. But as you celebrate with your family tomorrow understand what you a celebrating. Industry and fat corporate conglomerates that serve bad food and that are just out to get your money and independence.