Far
We've been traveling far
Without a home
But not without a star
Free
Only want to be free
We huddle close
Hang on to a dream
On the boats and on the planes
They're coming to America
Never looking back again
They're coming to America (Neal Diamond "America")
DEMONocracy: You cannot assemble between the hours of 10:00 pm to 6:00 am. We can change the rules of the game in the middle of the game because we are afraid of the power of the people.
DEmocracy: Let's celebrate the people who have lived days weeks months in Pearl Square in Bahrain, Sidi Bouzid Park in Tunisia, Tahrir Square in Egypt Tiananman Square in China. It is time they took back their government from corruption and greed.
DEMONocracy: Lets take back Frank Ogawa Park in Oakland, Zuccotti Park in New York City, Legislative Park in Nashville from the hippies,low life Communists and Socialists calling themselves Americans. All they want is a free ride.
DEmocracy: We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (preamble to the US Constitution)
DEMONocracy: The long-awaited decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was issued on Jan. 21. With a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that corporations and unions may now directly and expressly advocate for the election or defeat of candidates for federal office.
DEmocracy: Fair and equal opportunity for all candidates wishing to run for office, shall share in a general pot of money permitting them their free speech and allowing an even playing field for all Americans to participate in a debate about the philosophies and goals of each candidate.
DEMONocracy: Senate Republicans' filibuster to kill campaign finance legislation, which contained a public disclosure requirement.
We permitted people to march on state capitols with firearms, signs displaying the President hanging from a tree as was the scenario similar in the South before the Civil Rights Act was established, and that was just a bunch of Americans expressing their right to free speech because that is DEmocracy. We held town hall meetings where threats were shouted to anyone who disagreed with a right leaning agenda proposed by conservative politicians because that is DEmocracy. We heard groups of people threatening a revolution once again in this country decrying their version of current American history, identifying anyone who disagreed with them as Communists, Socialists, Fascists because that is DEmocracy.
We now want our public parks closed when groups become to large or too demanding as perceived by politicians who would rather serve their own needs than those of the people, that is DEMONocracy. We use police violence, brutality because words from the protestors seem more dangerous than the bullets of the police, that is DEMONocracy. We label those who express the need for health care, jobs, a fair tax system, wanting the same leverages and favors as the banks and finance institutions received as being selfish, greedy, lazy, low life that is DEMONocracy.
Everywhere around the world
They're coming to America
Every time that flag's unfurled
They're coming to America
Got a dream to take them there
They're coming to America
Got a dream they've come to share
They're coming to America (Neal Diamond, "America")
America, what is exactly happening to us?
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