There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware...
There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind.
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away....
This song was issued in 1967. The world hasn't changed much. Reading the facts about wars today in Iraq, Afghanistan: their justification, phoney forecasts, who is winning and when it will be over is a duplication of the patter from Washington in that period. It took a while but eventually the people rebelled. The USA withdrew and Vietnam survived. Some neighbours, Cambodia and Laos in particular, had to suffer accordingly.
We, the people, are still subject to the culture of fear with which we are constantly showered. Care to guess where and when the above picture was taken??? I'll post the answer in a couple of days.
The more I learn, the more I learn that there's nothing new under the sun. Protest all we want, the agenda continues forward. Sometimes quickly, sometimes we slow it down, sometimes we get a win, but onward goes the agenda...
ReplyDeleteI think that pic was from Oka?
Good logical try, Ron! It was in fact August, 2007 at Montebello, Quebec, where the Three Amigos, Harper, Bush and Calderon were meeting.
ReplyDeleteThey were all helicoptered in. The peaceful protest was confronted by the scene you see above. One notable event found a "protester" with T-shirt and bandana, hurling rocks at the police. A journalist noticed that his boots were police issue! This attempt to give police an opportunity to employ those gas canisters. Beware!
Police provocateuring is par for the course.
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