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https://uucpalisades.org/pity-the-nation...hNT6ndFy8A

Posted on FB today from my very wise sister

Happy 100th LB


Quote:[b]Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti is the co-founder of the iconic City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. Born in 1919, he still goes to work every day.
He wrote this poem in 2007. It is as prescient today as it was then.
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[b]“Pity The Nation”
Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.”
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Nothing wrong with that, however, there is nothing in there that wasn't expressed by the Founding Fathers or others that came after them. There is nothing in there that people like Ron Paul doesn't say every single day. Yet, here you are publishing this today when you are for more of the crooked, fraudulent and corrupt government that actually makes you a sheep to this evil shepherd.
“If you want to know who rules over you, just look for who you are not allowed to criticize.”

― Voltaire
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