The usual radical left-wing bashing of America, parroting Howard Zinn and the rest of the 60's flower children professoriate, completely ignoring the millions slaughtered in the 20th century under atheist communism.
> [Ham] > My contention is that man will realize his true freedom only when > he becomes his own authority. > > [Case] > Authority? > How much you got? > How much you need? > When I get enough will I be freed? > When I am my own and I'm cuttin' loose > Will I be there because I got the juice? > When I'm truly free, without constraint > Will I see the world without complaint? > Will I be calming seas? > Will I walk on air? > By what Authority? > Whose got some? > Can I get some? > Buy what? > Authority? > > [Ham] > We came close to this ideal when we broke the chains of tyranny and > founded > a free republic with limited government and maximum liberty for its > citizens. Except for the war between the states, it worked well for the > first hundred years or so. > > [Case] > During Ham's 72 year Golden Age > We fought a war with England > And rampaged across a continent > We ravaged civilizations > Scattered whole races of people > The Civil War was a vacation > For the Lakota and the Zuni > When the white men stopped > Killing each other > The rampage renewed > They threaded two oceans > With strands of steel > For those who rode the Iron Horse > It worked pretty well indeed. > Do you think that horse was forged > >From broken chains of tyranny? > > [Ham] > But by the middle of the last century we began > to lose our bearings and take freedom and prosperity for granted. We > thought we could "improve" upon the value of life by treating everbody as > equals and passing "progressive" programs to spread the wealth and make > government society's caretakers. > > [Case} > Under any kinda program wealth gets spread. > But when the bread gets buttered, who holds the bread? > Africans and women got three fifths 'a slice > Carnegie's got toasted. Served with rum and spice. > > Is it the white man's burden to tote the loaf? > > When the buses stopped in Selma > And governors were escorted > >From the steps of universities > By armed police > A race of people's lot "improved." > The value of their lives grew when they were given > The freedom and prosperity "we" had been taking for granted. > > Of whose care does the caretaker take? > Who gets the bread and butter? > Who gets the steak? > Should we ease the white man's burden while niños are starved? > If the loafman's load is lighter will some bigger crumbs get carved? > > Under every kind of program, when the wealth gets spread > Just like spreading butter; it's who holds the bread. > > [Ham quoting himself:] > "The refrain we hear most often is: 'It > can't happen here -- America is different.' But the reality is that > civilized nations are not immortal; they are born and die just as > individuals do. Although their longevity may exceed the average person's > lifespan, we cannot escape history. And history teaches us that empires > also die." > > [Case] > The deaths of empires can be protracted and rumors of them exaggerated. > Take the Greeks. > Egypt gasped away for 3000 years > Until Cleopatra had the last asp. > China's dynasties didn't so much die > As change names for 5000 years. > The Chosen People have wandered > Through desserts and death camps for millennia. > The British might well insist that theirs endures. > > Historians sign the death certificates. > America is different if it claims the right to decide. > Do not the Greeks live in us? > And the Iroquoi? > And the Hottentot? > And the Hindu? > And the Jew? > I think they do. > What of the Inca and the Aztec, the Mayans and the Anasazi? > What sins did they commit > To attract the buzzard's eye of historians? > > 'It can happen here, if America is indifferent.' > Indifferent to the sins of its past. > Indifferent to the poor in spirit > Indifferent to the mourners > Indifferent to the hungry > Indifferent to those persecuted for seeking justice > Indifferent to all those, whose only hope of empire > Is the Kingdom of Heaven > > > > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
