posted on January 24, 2007 08:20:47 AM new
Written by Wayne Lusvardi
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
First they came for 63 U.S. Embassy diplomats in Tehran,
And I didn't speak up,
Because I wasn't an embassy worker.
Then they came for 200 U.S. Marines in Lebanon,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a U.S. Marine and Lebanon was a far away place.
Next they came for Leon Klinghoffer, a U.S. Jewish businessman
and I didn't speak up,
Because I wasn't a wealthy Jew on a luxury cruise liner.
Then they came for two U.S. Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya,
Killing 257 Africans and wounding 4,000,
but I didn't speak up,
Because Tanzania and Kenya were far away places and I wasn't African.
Then they came for the U.S. Navy and the Destroyer Cole,
but I didn't speak up.
Because the U.S. Navy was keeping me safe in my homeland.
Then they came for 3,000 people in the World Trade Center,
and I finally woke up,
And I said "let's roll."
But some said it was a Jewish or Big Oil or Halliburton conspiracy.
And then I forgot completely who they came for,
and I just "Blame Bush" for creating all this mess,
Because "Bush lied and people died."
But when Bush is gone,
who will speak for me?
(Nancy Pelosi?)
"When I talk to liberals, I don't expect them to understand my positions on various issues. I spend most of my time trying to help them understand their own." —Mike Adams
posted on February 27, 2007 07:47:19 PM new
I'm enjoying the fact that quite a FEW in the dem party don't believe pelosi speaks even for them.
And she will NEVER speak for me.
Yep....they sat back while we were attacked FIVE times....and they did NOTHING. Then 9-11.
And now that we're fighting the AQ/taliban in Iraq...they want to admit defeat and run scared.
Thank God President Bush cares and IS willing to do something about it.
I fear for our Nation should a democrat be elected in '08. Other than Lieberman....none seem to have a backbone at all.
Sit here...waiting to be attacked AGAIN is their MOTTO. tsk tsk tsk
"While the democratic party complains about everything THIS President does to protect our Nation": "What would a Democrat president have done at that point?"
"Apparently, the answer is: Sit back and wait for the next terrorist attack."
posted on February 27, 2007 08:52:27 PM new
Bear,
Tell Wayne Lusvardi not to worry. When BUSHY is retired in the disgrace of a failed Presidency, a strong Democratic President will be setting in the White House.
This new President will speak for 98% of the American people and keep them safe not just 2%.
posted on March 1, 2007 01:32:20 PM new
Can Wayne Lusvardi come up with an original thought?
Who Will Speak For Me?
Who will speak for me?
Who will say, when I was silent, my life was unbearable?
Who will say, when I came forward, my world became unlivable?
Who will ask me why? Who will ask me what I've been through?
Who will care?
Who will take my voice, listen, and understand?
Who will wonder what this has done to my family, my friends, my life
My future?
Who will be brave enough to ask me why I didn't keep quiet?
Who will have the courage to listen to my story, knowing that hearing my Story could change their world forever.
Sometimes, in a less than perfect world, bad things happen
Sometimes they happen again and again, in the same way to different people
Just because no one spoke up
In such a way the pain continues, another hurt, then another, then another
When people see the price I pay for doing what is right
How will they feel about speaking out when they are wronged?
Will seeing my experience, the ridicule, the anger, the rejection, the anguish, encourage them to stand up for what is right?
Or, will it teach them that victims should remain silent…forever?
I have tried to speak and people turn away
The words are too painful, too unbelievable
Too far out of the realm of understanding to fit neatly into their world
The words, alien and foreign, are rejected
Called fantasy, twisted bitterness, misunderstanding or worse
A thousand words and phrases draped over the one word that means the Most
Truth
WHO WILL SPEAK FOR ME? WWII VERSION
by Reverend Martin Niemoller, 1945
First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, Because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Catholic.
Then they came for the Protestants, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me.
Another typical Republican sock puppet
Absolute faith has been shown, consistently, to breed intolerance. And intolerance, history teaches us, again and again, begets violence.
---------------------------------- The duty of a patriot in this time and place is to ask questions, to demand answers, to understand where our nation is headed and why. If the answers you get do not suit you, or if they frighten you, or if they anger you, it is your duty as a patriot to dissent. Freedom does not begin with blind acceptance and with a flag. Freedom begins when you say 'No.'
