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Yellow Ribbon: In Memoriam

pause for a moment of silence before continuing your day to bless your lucky stars that you were born within these borders which increase every day their campaign to keep others out or to send those back whom have established families & jobs--- some for nearly two decades. in the same breath we so easily forget that this country was built on the labor produced by a steady flow of immigrants who came here willingly & by slaves who were dragged here against their will to help the white men who successfully fled taxation in one empire to come here, kill off the native population as best as they could & establish a new empire (even more powerful than the one that they left) in order to fill their pockets, passing their indestructible wealth down the line of their descendents for centuries to come. after plowing down all in their paths in order to make it to the other coast of this new found cash cow--- leaving nothing but blankets bearing small pox, dead buffalo & dead native americans all along the way, the empire found need to expand beyond our borders & to confiscate all the resources that they could--- over land & all bodies of water they trudged on, speaking loudly & carrying a big big stick slamming it down upon the heads of all who resisted---as well as those that didn’t. so while we still exist in this dwindling american age---with china just over the horizon ready to take up the reins, it seems appropriate to close our disgusting first world, celebrity worshipping, fashion fanatical, complacent, increasingly illiterate, & sedentary mouths, and to remember the stolen lives of the civilians (whose number is always kept from us---always estimated & scant at best)--- those that once resided in the countries with whom we have most recently been slamming the empire’s billy club down upon, tirelessly & without any notion that an end of our torturous beating frenzy is in the near future. tie a yellow ribbon round that tree for the between 125,421 & 240,000 Iraqi civilians who have been killed so far, as a result of the united states invasion “beginning” in 2003. tie another for those dropping like flies in our new vietnam--- anywhere between 9,000 & 27,000 are supposed to have been killed so far, in the current Afghanistan debacle. in this century, if you are a budding young capitalist--- best to invest in yellow ribbon, it is most certainly a safe bet.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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Date: 5/31/2011 2:43:00 AM
this one is gonna make me thinkluv*Skat
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Andrew Delapruch
Date: 5/31/2011 3:11:00 AM
thanks for taking the time to read it! glad it made you think : )

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