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I received this in my email this morning.
Patriots Poem (Author Unknown)
I had a dream the other night I didn't understand,
A figure walking through the mist with a flintlock in hand.
His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed.
He took off his 3 cornered hat, and speaking low, he said:
"We fought a Revolution to secure our liberty,
We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny.
For future generations this legacy we gave,
In this land of the free and home of the brave.
The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep,
But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep.
Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave,
In this land of the free and home of the brave.
You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun,
Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one.
On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent.
Although you have no voice in choosing how the money's spent.
Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate.
Your Christian values can't be taught, according to the State.
You read about the current news, in a regulated press.
You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the IRS.
Your money is no longer made of silver or of gold.
You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled.
You pay for crimes that make our Nation turn from God in shame
You've taken Satan's number, as you've traded in your name.
You've given government control to those who do you harm,
So they can padlock churches, and steal the family farm,
And keep our country deep in debt, put men of God in jail,
Harass your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail.
Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oath they've sworn.
Your daughters visit doctors, so their children won't be born.
Your leaders ship artillery, and guns to foreign shores,
And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people's wars.
Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died?
Or don't you have the courage, or the faith to stand with pride?
Are there no more values for which you'll fight to save?
Or do you wish your children to fear and be a slave?
People of the Republic, arise and take a stand!
Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land!
Preserve our Great Republic , and God Given Right!
And pray to God to keep the torch of Freedom burning bright!
As I awoke he vanished in the mist from whence he came.
His words were true, we are not free, we have ourselves to blame.
For even now as tyrants, trample each God given right,
We only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight.
If he stood by your bedside, in a dream, while you're asleep,
And wonders what remains of our Rights he fought to keep,
What would be your answer, if he called out from the grave,
Is this still the land of the free and home of the brave?"
~Unknown~
I gotta say, it sounds like a call to arms. And that IS a constitutional right. (Never forget that the Bill of Rights only entitle the American population one single thing. Instead it exists to place limits on the powers of the government. The one right the it does grant us is to do away with and rebuild the government as the people of the United States see fit.)
Regardless of how you feel about each individual issues pointed out in that poem, you can't deny that the decisions were made without true input from the people those laws are supposed to represent. "For the People, By the People" has come to mean, "For the Few, By the Few, Imposed on the Many."
Patriots Poem (Author Unknown)
I had a dream the other night I didn't understand,
A figure walking through the mist with a flintlock in hand.
His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed.
He took off his 3 cornered hat, and speaking low, he said:
"We fought a Revolution to secure our liberty,
We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny.
For future generations this legacy we gave,
In this land of the free and home of the brave.
The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep,
But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep.
Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave,
In this land of the free and home of the brave.
You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun,
Permits to start a business, or to build a place for one.
On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent.
Although you have no voice in choosing how the money's spent.
Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate.
Your Christian values can't be taught, according to the State.
You read about the current news, in a regulated press.
You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the IRS.
Your money is no longer made of silver or of gold.
You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled.
You pay for crimes that make our Nation turn from God in shame
You've taken Satan's number, as you've traded in your name.
You've given government control to those who do you harm,
So they can padlock churches, and steal the family farm,
And keep our country deep in debt, put men of God in jail,
Harass your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail.
Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oath they've sworn.
Your daughters visit doctors, so their children won't be born.
Your leaders ship artillery, and guns to foreign shores,
And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people's wars.
Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died?
Or don't you have the courage, or the faith to stand with pride?
Are there no more values for which you'll fight to save?
Or do you wish your children to fear and be a slave?
People of the Republic, arise and take a stand!
Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land!
Preserve our Great Republic , and God Given Right!
And pray to God to keep the torch of Freedom burning bright!
As I awoke he vanished in the mist from whence he came.
His words were true, we are not free, we have ourselves to blame.
For even now as tyrants, trample each God given right,
We only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight.
If he stood by your bedside, in a dream, while you're asleep,
And wonders what remains of our Rights he fought to keep,
What would be your answer, if he called out from the grave,
Is this still the land of the free and home of the brave?"
~Unknown~
I gotta say, it sounds like a call to arms. And that IS a constitutional right. (Never forget that the Bill of Rights only entitle the American population one single thing. Instead it exists to place limits on the powers of the government. The one right the it does grant us is to do away with and rebuild the government as the people of the United States see fit.)
Regardless of how you feel about each individual issues pointed out in that poem, you can't deny that the decisions were made without true input from the people those laws are supposed to represent. "For the People, By the People" has come to mean, "For the Few, By the Few, Imposed on the Many."