tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post3353360315603343357..comments2023-11-05T04:04:54.585-05:00Comments on DRAMA QUEEN!: "Bullet Nation"Uncle Sydney 2012http://www.blogger.com/profile/06315955207217416368noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post-2796156676844699732011-01-09T10:30:23.096-05:002011-01-09T10:30:23.096-05:00Had to write this this morning.
Second Amendment ...Had to write this this morning.<br /><br /><b>Second Amendment Remedy?</b><br /><br />Rage has never been the cause of quiet,<br />nor has shouting ever stilled a storm.<br />When a fuse is lit and left to smolder,<br />soon it will ignite the charge,<br />and soon explosion will burst forth,<br />and fierce destruction come to pass.<br />Little fires quickly grow together,<br />fanned by winds of scorching passion,<br />and combine to feed a conflagration,<br />that consumes all it finds along its path.<br />And when a hatred seeks for any reason<br />that it may bend to make its feeble case,<br />and when cross-hairs are used to focus actions,<br />second amendment used to justify revolt,<br />and violence of a revolution threatened,<br />what surprise when madmen start to crack,<br />and think to find support in words they hear,<br />and lash out in just the ways heard everywhere,<br />and bring confusion,<br />destruction,<br />death and pain,<br />and the beauty of a growth toward freedom,<br />turns to ashes,<br />and will die if raging cannot be contained,<br />if anger be allowed to reign,<br />if peace and reason fail to be returned.<br />America,<br />experiment,<br />full of flaws and yet of promise,<br />will we hear and heed the warning?<br />Or is this the way the dreams will die?<br /><br /><i>----------ed pacht</i>poetreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11613032927883843078noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post-35691927178037597772011-01-09T08:52:17.231-05:002011-01-09T08:52:17.231-05:00Frankly I'm surprised this hasn't happened...Frankly I'm surprised this hasn't happened sooner. I recall too well the death threats against Obama at Palin rallies during the election.<br /><br />Perhaps this movement will be shocked back to reality by this political massacre.<br /><br />If we're lucky. If we're insanely lucky.Uncle Sydney 2012https://www.blogger.com/profile/06315955207217416368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1916031369325814810.post-74847228320820385112011-01-09T07:05:44.210-05:002011-01-09T07:05:44.210-05:00While it would be irresponsible and unjust to accu...While it would be irresponsible and unjust to accuse Mrs. Palin of intending to occasion such an event, it would be stupid to deny any connection. The climate of rage and hatred openly encouraged by her, by the Tea Party, and by other such voices, when combined with open talk of firearms in a political context, makes such events as this tragically inevitable. I've been expecting such an event, and I'm afraid I can't but expect more. This begins to look more and more like the "third world" countries we are always criticizing for violent politics.<br /><br />edpoetreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11613032927883843078noreply@blogger.com