There’s a place for the silent.
There’s a time for concession.
There’s a time to be violent,
In the face of oppression.
There’s a will to be staggered.
There’s a time for the fall.
There’s a time to stand up
And to tear down this wall!

Check the clock and take stock.
Do you have what it takes
To fight back against the tide
Before the waves break,
And wash us all away,
In their waters of oppression?
Can you rise up against,
And subdue their aggression?

There’s a place for the truth
There’s a time it’d be spoken.
There’s a time when the proof
Will all be out in the open.
There’s a hope to be conquered.
There’s a time to renew it.
There’s a time to take up arms
And say we won’t suffer through it!

Check the time and design,
Does it wreak of confusion,
Has it been built of betrayal
By the cons in collusion?
Will it undo us all if left
Up to it’s intended devices,
Leaving a shattered wake
Wherein we all pay the prices?

There’s a place for the fear
There’s a time to be bowed…
But that place is not here,
And that time is not now.
It’s time to right the wrongs.
It’s time to set things straight.
There’s no time for apathy
There’s no more time to wait!

Check the date and current state
To see where we’ve landed,
And then find the strength
To be one of the branded,
Fighting for the changes,
For the freedoms we lost
To get all of them back
No matter the cost!

There’s a place for the silent,
There’s a time for concession.
There’s a time to be violent
In the face of oppression!

There’s a place to interfere
There’s a time not to bow,
That place is right here,
And that time is right now!

So why is it okay for people to be misinformed? To bask in the bliss of their ignorance, willfully, purposefully, and maliciously? The truth’s not only out there, but it’s too inconvenient for anyone to want to give a fuck…(did you see what I did there with the whole truth thing? That’s right, I’m reclaiming it!)

Why is it okay for other people to perpetuate the misinformation? To misguide the masses, keeping the cloud thickly pulled over their eyes willfully, purposefully, maliciously? Their true intentions so dark and cruel that they feel they must mask them from the public…

Why is it okay to try and dumb-down the public and scare them into a distracted state? To employ tasteless tactics to steer the people blindly around any agendas you want to keep hidden? So they can easily dismiss everything that we have to say without giving us the respect and response we deserve…

Why is it okay to work aggressively under the radar to silence our voices? To oppressively build an intolerance for free access to information and speech, selling us on the notion that it’s all for the greater good? Weakening the foundations that comprise the basic structures of everything we’ve built…

Why is it okay for the people in power to be the perpe(traitors) of this disaster? To be the architects of this sad decline into a disgraceful and distasteful reflection of our former selves, and to do so without accountability? Surrendering our ability to remove this shroud of unenlightenment for us and doing it with a smile…

Why is it okay for all of this to be going on and people just allow the misinformation, the scare-tactics, the distractions, the silencing, the traitors, and the fall and not get worked up and mad as hell screaming incessantly for change?

Why is it okay to not care?

Why is it okay for people to suck…and if it’s not, then why the fuck aren’t we doing anything about it?

I’ve read some scary, crazy ass Christian propaganda and incitement statements today that frightened me to my core. These are some really scary fuckers! I mean Jason and Freddy have nothing on these horrific hate-mongers. So I wanted to post some of these readily accessible quotes from our founding fathers, to further add fuel to their crazy book burning blazes. Oh, if only they could burn a blog.

So here are some pearls from the past, from the formers, the founders:

“Every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshiping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.” George Washington, Letter, United Baptist Chamber of Virginia May 1789

“The Government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion.” 1797 the treaty of Tripoli, signed by President Washington, and approved by the Senate of the United States

” … I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should `make no law respecting establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between church and state.” Thomas Jefferson, Letter, Danbury Baptist Assn. January 1, 1802

“I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, disciplines or exercises.” Jefferson’s Letter to Rev. Mr. Millar, Jan. 23,1808 (Words of Thomas Jefferson, Vol 5, pg 236.)

“I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition. In my view church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact. Religion and politics should not be mingled.” Millard Fillmore (1809-1865) 13th U.S. President (Millard Fillmore, address during the 1856 presidential election; from Albert Menendez and Edd Doerr, eds., Great Quotations on Religious Freedom, Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2002, p. 70.)

“Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you whave planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage, and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genious of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tryant who rises among you.” Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Edwardsville, IL, 1858

“Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion;…. leave the matter of religious teaching to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contribution. Keep church and state forever separate.” Ulysses S. Grant’s Speech to G. A. R. Veterans, at Des Moines, IA 1875.

***I must say, while Ulysses makes a good point the privileges should be guaranteed for all beings on this planet***

I’ll end with this one that I feel it is the most poignant slapping glove across this broken institutions face:
“When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God does not see fit to take care of it, so that it has to appeal to the civil power for support, it is evidence to my mind that its cause is a bad one.” Benjamin Franklin, Statesman, Inventor, Author, Letter to Dr. Price.

So national intelligence reports came in stating that Iran was no longer the nuclear threat that the Bush Administration has been insisting that they are. Saying that Iran had disabled it’s nuclear program in 2003. But did Dubya listen to those “intelligence” reports? Hell, no. And why should he? A man who has no intelligence, has no need of intelligence reports. Especially when they contradict his well rehearsed rhetoric, because, ‘aw shucks, Rovey, it was so hard to learn the first batch of propaganda, why can’t we just keep with it. I’m the decider, and that’s what I’ve decided’. That’s not really what the President said, that was me ranting.

What he really said was this.

“Look, Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.” Insisting that no policy change was necessary, the President further stated that these reports would not sway him towards more diplomatic methods in dealing with this looming threat. Bush also said that he would not remove possible pre-emptive military strikes against Iran from the table, and that he would not deter in trying to punish them with more sanctions.

This is a familiar arrogance and cowboy-esque stance, that Bush has taken and ran blindly away with before. This time, the bullying fratboy from Texas needs a reality check, telling him that he does not have an unchallengeable authority in this arena. The people, have spoken about Iraq, so Bush and the boys are changing the location, but keeping the themes. Greed and oil.

The people need to speak up again and make sure that our voice is heard. We cannot afford the lives that Bush wants us to sacrifice in his war. We cannot afford the financial strains and burdens that Bush wants our overbloated budget and paramount debt to bare. We cannot afford another international relations debacle, lead by this stubborn corporate puppet which furthers anti-American sentiment around the world.

Haven’t we heard all of this before? They are barely changing the script for this one. “Weapons of mass destruction” have become “Enriching uranium for the manufacture of nuclear weapons”, **or ‘Learning that leads to big bombs that go boom.’ from Bush’s weekly briefing update**. They are marching us to a familiar drumbeat, that we’ve not only heard before, (and openly bitched about it’s lingering chorus of devastation), but that we’ve voted against it and it’s overwhelming tide of aggression with a true demand for change.

Unite our voices! We need to contact our representatives and demand that they stand against George W. Bush and his push for war and doling out of punishment to other countries. He’s not the ‘global decider’, or the President of the world. I think we’d save that task for someone who’s actually smarter than a fifth grader!