A VISITOR FROM THE PAST.
A POEM
By; Thelan Paulk 1980?
I had a dream the other night, I didn't understand.
A figure walking through the mist, with flintlock in his hand.
His clothes were torn and dirty, as he stood there by the bed.
He took off his three cornered hat, 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, the land of the free and the home of the brave."
"The freedom we secured for you we hoped you would 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, the land of the free and the 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 a land that you believe you own you pay a yearly rent.
While you have no voice in choosing how the money is 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 traded in 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 Satans 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 peoples wars."
"Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died?
Or don't you have the courage to stand with faith and pride?
Are there no more values for which you'll fight to save?
Or do you wish your children live in fear and be a slave?"
"Sons of the republic, arise and take a stand!
Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land!
Preserve our Great Republic and each God Given Right!
and pray to God, to keep the torch of freedom burning bright!"
As I awoke he vanished, in the mist from which 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 were asleep.
and wonders what remains of our Rights he fought to keep.
What we be your answer if he called out from the grave?
"IS THIS STILL THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE?"
If you are still skeptical regarding the value of this process presented here, consider your answer to the question just posed? If it is still that land, just how is our freedom and bravery best used?
IF YOUR ANSWER IS "THE FEARLESS USE OF FREE SPEECH",
YOU HAVE NOT ,
OR WILL NOT,
BE TAKEN IN BY ANY PROPAGANDA!
Second College edition, The American Heritage Dictionary
propaganda 1. The systematic propagation of a given doctrine or of allegations reflecting its views and interests; Marxist propaganda. Material disseminated by the advocates of a doctrine..............
The views and interests presented in the Declarator are essentially the subtly implied views and interests of American citizens as has been defined by the founding documents of the Nation as well as biologically rational descriptions of the reasons for the psychology humans historically possess are a natural doctrine. Neither are the views and interests dogmatic. The system of beliefs presented by the Declarator are proven by science A (page 17 "The Further Reaches of Humanity, 1971) Nature, Abraham H. Maslow and biological studies of animal and human behavioral studies concur. The views and interests also have never before been compiled for evaluation in our society in the appropriate way of a maze symbolizing decisions in living.
JUST TO BE SAFE THE FOLLOWING SUGGESTION IS FACETIOUSLY PRESENTED.
Perhaps later you will watch some TV or read a newspaper and your understandings of the deep meanings of exactly what is sacred about America will send you to sleep with a warm happy feeling as you are completely secure in the source of your information.