You may call me a dreamer, or a visionary, but friends, I do dream that someday, right here in America, basic freedoms will be a right and Justice will the rule not the exception in our courts.

I see the day when the war on drugs is seen as a war on the citizens and the prison doors will at last swing open and people will be free to smoke whatever they want.

I can see the day when the elderly will not have to go hungary in order to pay for overpriced drugs and the goverment will spend money on the schools instead of another war in yet another far off land.

I can even see the day when a student can speak out in class without the secret service being called, yes, someday the police will leave our bedrooms and we can free to love.

You can say these are but silly dreams, but listen my friends, the freedom train will soon be rolling and we need to let everyone know, freedom and justice will be coming to the USA.

Nathen, thank you for describing so well the vision that keeps me going, too.

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nathen... You do speak to the feelings in my heart. Without freedom how can there be peace? and without justice, how can there be freedom?

It is up to us to make the difference.

STAND AND BE COUNTED
~David Crosby

There was a piece of song I heard the other day,
Some words I heard the singer say,
Something about being loved, the way that it sounded,
When he said how he wanted to stand, stand and be counted.

Sometimes I talk to myself in the early dawn,
Before all the fragments of my dreams are gone,
Things you don't know why your mind held on to
For at times you know more than you want to

Stand and be counted
Stand on the truth
Stand on your honor
Stand and be counted

I wonder who that kid was, standing brave and trim
When I hear myself breathing, I know that I was him,
Defender of the poor and those who cannot speak
I thought I'd be standing by the dam, trying to stop the leak.

Stand and be counted
Stand on the truth
Stand on your honor
Stand and be counted

So concerned with matters of the heart,
Knowing the millennium was just about to start,
And knowing that somehow we could make a difference.

I want to stand alone in front of the world and that oncoming tank,
Like that Chinese boy that we all have to thank,
He showed us in a picture that I have mounted,
Exactly what it means to stand and be counted.

Stand and be counted
Stand on the truth
Stand on your honor
Stand and be counted

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I sure wish I could be more up, but I got this bad feeling right now that we're headed for a Bush dynasty, another W term leading right into 8 years of Jeb.

We're talking about a country that's been dumbed down to the point where they watch reality television, and view war coverage like they were watching the sunday football games.

God I hope I'm wrong, for the sake of everything. But the fact is, right now The Dark Side is rolling in 75% approval, which is gonna be hard to overcome. Specially with their massive money chest, and the media in their hip pocket.

Hey, you can dream, right. And we'll do what we can to spread the dream so that the numbers will make it a reality.

Weird. A spider just jumped on the computer screen while I was posting. I think it's a neoconservative operative.

I would call you a leader.

Pat, a 'bug', as it were?<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/uhoh.gif" width=15 height=15>

The news is mostly fabricated by the folks who planted Pat's spider.<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/wink.gif" width=15 height=15> It's intended to scare and depress us. Our job is to sift through it crticially, then put most of it on our gardens as good fertilizer, and love each other in pursuit of that dream. It's not an easy job.

Oh great! Now Pat is having delusions that she is Little Miss Muffett!
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check out http://www.michaelmoore.com .

Read the letter he sent to Bush the day the war started.

I can't wait to see his next project "Fahrenheit 911", about the link between the Bush and Bin Laden families .

If this guy was running, I'd vote for him.

Icj: I hope for Christ sake your wrong, or getting paranoid!? Either case, 4 more yrs. of Bush would have Dave tellin me " I tol you so " Something that is hard for a Pisces is being told he's wrong. Especially when he's right!

I told a friend the other day, it's a God-damn shame, when I Rb having a 12th grade diploma (does trade school count) lol KNOW MORE about keeping peace than the President of the United States of America. I find it easy to say NO to war. Keeping the peace is another topic all together. BUT saying NO is the first step, to allot of major life hurdles. JUST SAY NO.

Sincerely Icj/Rlb