JULY 4th - 2006

A country took its stand:
Freedom for every man!

While the world loathed and cried.

Because the free men lied,
Freedom for them had died.

The hearts and minds of
war-torn refugees,
become malnutritioned
by their desperate poverty
bordering on, if not lost to, insanity.

Is it any wonder they hear
Terror whispering in their ears:

"Give the free man something to fear.
Destroy all that he holds dear.
Corrupt what he reveres."

Too corrupt to pass Terror's test,
Free man's greed and perversion being too vast,
Profit, pleasure, and power remain his quest.

The wealthy free men are selfish, brutal, and cruel.

His progress has always required the fuel
of slavery's blood, sweat, and tears
extracted and forced
from millions of men
for hundreds of years.

The useless masses are murdered,
maimed, and enslaved
as wealthy, power hungry leaders
become more and more depraved.

In recent years,
in the so-called nations of the free,
a new weapon to control the masses
has been deployed:

Fear of being blown up and
Fear of becoming unemployed.

Fear convinces even the most brilliant of men
To trade their freedom to feel secure again
As long as their leaders use an appropriate acronym*.

Slowly, subtlely, and ever so covertly,
True freedom will become a memory past.

In short, fear will convince free man to give up his rights.
He will become too overwhelmend and exhausted to fight.

Survival will become the strong man's best.
Death will be preferred by the rest.

In the end, stripped of all he once held so dear
free man will learn:

What he must have, has him.

   Copyright Sonja July 4, 2002

*A good example being the USA PATRIOT ACT, which means:

"Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools
Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism"

Tools like:

Listening to our phone calls;
Reading our bank statements;
Photographing our peace demonstrations; and
Gathering our Internet records from our Internet Providers

So, if we have nothing to hide,
why should we object.

Being guiltless, we can be free of fear.

Hopefully, the home-bound and truly curious,
who randomly research things heard about,
like conspiracy theories, etc.,
will not be accused of being unpatriotic or treasonous.
Hopefully, internet curiousity will not imprison or kill us someday.

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