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Title: A Poem For Hugo Chavez
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One inspired American
URL Source: http://www.geocities.com/mdmorrissey/chavez
Published: Sep 21, 2006
Author: Michael D. Morrissey
Post Date: 2006-09-21 13:39:10 by Arator
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Keywords: Chavez, Poem, Gratitude
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On his address to the UN, Sept. 20, 2006 (http://www.counterpunch.com/chavez09202006.html) Michael D. Morrissey Sept. 21, 2006 May be redistributed for non-profit purposes, provided copyright is acknowledged. Original place of publication is www.mdmorrissey.info/chavez. Your words bring solace to a damaged nation Poster Comment: Viva Chavez! Buy CITGO! What a great poem. I share the author's sentiments.
not yours, but mine, a limping giant
wounded in its soul by its very leaders,
the men you call imperialists and devils, assassins, torturers.
We know this too. But we need to hear it from you
because we know you are our friend.
You call us brothers, and we believe you.
You remind us of the well-documented crimes of the CIA
against your country and many others, including our own.
You know Bushco, the devil, was behind 9/11
and all that has followed, and you aren't afraid to say so.
Chomsky doesn't go that far, but David Griffin does
and he agrees with you about the devil.
So do we. We the people
sinking into fascism like the Germans yesterday,
having learned nothing at all from history,
struck deaf, dumb and blind not by 9/11
but by televsion and the New York Times
who sold out to the devil years ago.
Now you come, Hugo Chavez, saying what the Times
will not print, but our hearts burn to say
before the UN General Assembly.
How can we thank you but in small ways, like this
in the hope that someday small voices will rise into a chorus
as they have in your country, and in Bolivia
and we one day will have real elections again
and elect pople like you who will tell the truth
and do what we want them to do
instead of what they want, which is to enslave us,
kill us, impoverish and exploit us, and worst of all,
do all of this without us knowing, thinking we are free,
the "greatest country in the world."
Has there ever been a more pitiable state in all of history?
"And they thought they were free!"
will be our epitaph, signed by the Vice-President of Sneers,
unless we rise, hermano, and smile your smile of brotherhood
and justice. Te saludo, Hugo, amigo americano.
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#1. To: Arator (#0)
Thanks for posting this Arator. We definitely buy Citgo! My youngest son has his 98 Escort displaying a Pennsylvania license plate CITGO 99. Got it for him when Jeff Burton was driving the 99 Citgo car for Jack Rousch. We buy our gasolne at the Country Fair outlets in western Pennsylvania because it is made from venezuela crude oil, not that middle eastern oil.
You may want to read the text of his speech today in Harlem. I am looking for it now.
If we were really at war, the borders would be closed.
Buy CITGO! Well, until Chavez stops selling us that million of barrels of oil a day.
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers Poetic ping!
Check out my blog, America, the Bushieful.
i know you both have read Griffin's book. i like this part of the poem. incidentally, do you suppose Chavez's sulfur comment could have been referring to 911 since they were in NYC?
Could be. The metaphor works on multiple levels. "Smells of sulfer" could allude to: a) the hellfires of damnation Take your pick!
Check out my blog, America, the Bushieful.
Griffin doesn't believe in a personal devil. But he does believe in a demonic force in human affairs, and he makes a persuasive case that the demonic has taken over the U.S. government. I wonder if Chávez is aware of his work.
Katrina was America's Chernobyl.
d) all of the above
"If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country." - Daniel Ellsberg Author, Pentagon Papers Putting that up was a good idea. Maybe a few Venezuelans will see it and realize that not all Americans are Bush Bots.
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In case you missed this.
Check out my blog, America, the Bushieful.
U2
Check out my blog, America, the Bushieful.
Silenced majority bump.
In 1947, the UN created a perpetual war and named it Israel.
A political party that elevates a low-level war-mongering moron of the privleged class to the nation's highest office does not deserve to exist. America may not survive the Bush family.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
As long as it was pro-Israel, a water buffalo could be elected President of the United States.
In 1947, the UN created a perpetual war and named it Israel.
As long as it was pro-Israel, a water buffalo could be elected President of the United States. All the front-runners for the Republican or Democrat preseidental nominations in 08, or at least those deemed kosher by the Electric Jew and given air-time, realize they must be pro-Israel to even be considered for the highest office. Zionism is Amedrica's form of national suicide, is her idolatry, is her insanity. Jewish supremacy is its cult.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
well, there's no doubt that the demonic force is in control of this prison planet.
Hugo, amigo, bump
#2. To: Arator (#0)
Viva Chavez! Buy CITGO!
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#4. To: Arator, *Hugo Fan Club* (#0)
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#6. To: Arator, aristeides (#0)
You know Bushco, the devil, was behind 9/11
and all that has followed, and you aren't afraid to say so.
Chomsky doesn't go that far, but David Griffin does
and he agrees with you about the devil.
#7. To: christine (#6)
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i know you both have read Griffin's book. i like this part of the poem. incidentally, do you suppose Chavez's sulfur comment could have been referring to 911 since they were in NYC?
b) Bush's juvenile farting fixation
c) the key component in Thermate cutting charges used on 9/11
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Griffin doesn't believe in a personal devil. But he does believe in a demonic force in human affairs, and he makes a persuasive case that the demonic has taken over the U.S. government.
#15. To: Zoroaster (#14)
A political party that elevates a low-level war-mongering moron of the privleged class to the nation's highest office does not deserve to exist.
#16. To: wbales (#15)
A political party that elevates a low-level war-mongering moron of the privleged class to the nation's highest office does not deserve to exist.
#17. To: Zoroaster, aristeides (#14)
Griffin doesn't believe in a personal devil. But he does believe in a demonic force in human affairs,
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