The Boxer Revolution

[genius]

This is the poem that the young girl wrote and recited at last week's counter-coronation. The author says she doesn't mind if people spead her work as long as they include her name and the copyright notice. After Barbara's performance today, it seemed appropriate to post this.

The Boxer Revolution
By Natasha H., age 13.)

Stolen once again in two thousand and four;
Kerry won this time; last time Bush stole from Gore;
This time let’s kick the real loser out the door;
Let’s care that the exit polls gave Kerry more.

Voters had no vote across the USA;
A million lost their vote by Election Day;
Thanks to Blackwell, Ohioans had no say;
In Florida, Hood took voter’s rights away.

Kerry was the choice of the US voters;
Technicians in disguise rigged the computers;
They switched the results in the tabulators;
The truth is out. Where are the prosecutors?

The media is not on the voters’ side;
The truth, the newscasts try very hard to hide;
In the news, truth and justice are crucified;
The gullible have been taken for a ride.

Thank you Barbara for the revolution;
You stood up tall against the FRAUDstitution;
We were afraid we’d lost the Constitution;
You gave us hope there would be a solution.

31 house members bravely contested;
Did you watch the day their courage was tested?
With secrecy, the media was vested;
Only C-Span showed Bush’s fraud protested.

From 1877 through this year;
This was the first contest Congress would hear;
Don’t let Bush control you through fear;
Stop tyranny; restore democracy here.

(Copyright © 2005 by Natasha H. All rights reserved.

[mitchtv]

1. I am proud to bw a Californian

Thanks Barbara.

[The Traveler]

2. Not bad at all

Pass on my best to Natasha. Based on this sample, I think we can expect some great things from her in the future.

[mike_c]

3. second that....

Thank you, Sen. Boxer.

[SmileMaker]

4. Great thanks to Natasha and to The Boxer Revolution

This is a wonderful poem. Have any of you creative DUers created a Boxer Revolution/Rebellion Blog yet? The poem would be beautiful there.

Until we get our democracy back, I would like to consider Barbara Boxer and John Kerry our virtual presidents. We need focus, organization and leadership. Let's all try to work together toward getting our democracy back. The Boxer Revolution is the perfect vehicle!

Here is a really good article that helps explain what we are up against and what we need to do.


http://baltimorechronicle.com/011305PaulLevy.html

GENUINE COMPASSION AS ACTIVISM

The malignant egophrenia epidemic is happening right in front of us.
It is self-evident for all who have eyes to see. If we don't look at
what?s happening, if we turn away, ignore it, and contract against it,
we are lying to ourselves. Then we?re colluding with and unknowingly
feeding the disease. Our looking away is a form of blindness. Our
looking away is a form of ignorance. Our looking away, our contraction,
is itself the disease. Our resulting complacency and inaction is, in
fact, an expression of our lack of compassion. To quote Reverend Martin
Luther King Jr. "One who passively accepts evil happen] is as much involved in it as the one who perpetrates it."

Bush supporters are not merely disinterested in seeing that they are in
denial of reality; on the contrary, they actively don?t want to look at
this, which is to say they resist self-reflection at all costs. Bush and
his supporters perversely interpret any feedback from the real world
which reflects back their unconsciousness as itself evidence that proves
the rightness of their viewpoint. All of Bush?s supporters mutually
reinforce each other?s unconscious resistance to such a degree that a
collective, interdependent field of impenetrability gets collectively
conjured up by them that literally resists consciousness.