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Patriotic Rhythm and Blues

If you believe professional athletes should punch their Free Speech Rights out when they punch in their employment clock, Why is it fair to also believe you have not twittered out your violent and racist and sexist Free NonViolent Speech Rights when you laid hands on and pledged your crossed-finger heart to Presidential FakePatriotic AntiAllegiance to One First Native MultiCulturing Nation, for which it stands under God, not so much idolatrously and supremely above? With growing equity, not supremacy, and WinWin cooperative liberty, not competitive WinLose violent and ballistic restricted TopSecret mega-loyalty corporations, and for ecojustice of, from, and for All Species and climates and cooperative health care giving and receiving ecopolitical reassurances patriotic for ecojustice inter-network nationed Sacred Earth, Headed toward polycultural-endorsing Free NonViolent Speech Outcomes and away from MonoCulturing Twitters cheerleading Mindless Speech as AntiAmerican Outputs, Indulged and over-invested in too-Yanged ballistic word choices, not suitable for young non-violent ears and eyes, as if such were super-calorie patriotic expedited delicious flag waving and wearing and wrapping, rather than anti-matriotic hearts of loyal-honorable matters of and for healthy Earth climates, both inside sacred Twittering and outside polypathic healthy-wealth ecopolitically incarnating. You choose fake patriotism news, but we, both Left and Right, permaculturally prefer keepin' it realtime jazzy gospel, Sacred Matriotic Revolutionary Rhythm and Timeless Blues. Patriotism is about commitment to freedom and justice and equity and mercy and love and compassion and justice, and not at all about feeling bullied to act in ways that could only betray the integrity of your commitments to freedom and justice and equity and mercy and love and compassion and peace and justice for and with All Earthlings, singing and dancing our best rhythms as yet timeless blues.

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Date: 9/26/2017 9:23:00 AM
After I read this four times, with a whisky in between each reading, the penny dropped, so I poured myself a double ! Have one on me, my friend - well done !
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Date: 9/26/2017 9:52:00 AM
Thanks so much. High praise just got higher. Gerald Oliver

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