The Beat (en) Generation WAS Re: [Ssf] Fallujah's resistance, another version

[Amparo]

You do realize that 20 lines and a few words are equivalent in strength 
and contents to a whole political manifesto or  a philosophical treaty. 
They carry their own music. Thanks gosh we have them, words.


And if they send in the special police
To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace
Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues
when they tell us justice is being done
and that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun




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2 % Human wrote:

> Amparo wrote:
>
>> Another version of Fallujah's resistance from the viewpoint of James 
>> Petras, Latin American writer and activist:
>>
>> http://www.counterpunch.org/petras11192004.html
>>
>> Somehow I hope you find some hope...
>
>
> When you cast your eyes upon the skylines
> Of this once proud nation
> Can you sense the fear and the hatred
> Growing in the hearts of its population ?
>
> And our youth, oh youth, are being seduced
> by the greedy hands of politics and half truths
>
> The beaten generation, the beaten generation
> Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
> The beaten generation, the beaten generation
> Open your eyes, open your imagination !!!
>
> We're being sedated by the gasoline fumes
> and hypnotised by the satellite tunes
> Into believing what is good and what is right
> You may be worshiping the temples of mammon
> Or lost in the prisons of religion
> But can you still walk back to happiness
> When you've nowhere left to run ?
>
> And if they send in the special police
> To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace
> Then won't the words sit ill upon their tongues
> when they tell us justice is being done
> and that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun
>
> The beaten generation, the beaten generation
> Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information
> The beaten generation, the beaten generation
> Open your eyes, open your imagination !!!
>
> -- 
> the The : The Beat(en) Generation
>