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Is It For Freedom? Mourning the Innocent Lives Lost in Gaza


Remember Sara Thomsen, one of the musicians that sang at our Peace Island Picnic during the RNC in September? Although she originally wrote this song years ago in response to the suffering of the children of Iraq, its lyrics are again so applicable, sadly enough, to the children who have been killed, wounded and starved in Gaza.

Is It For Freedom?

Rulers of the nations as you fuss and fight
Over who owns this or that and who has the right
To design, build, sell and store and fire
All the bombs and guns to defend your holy empire

There are children hungry, children sick and dying
There are mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers crying
They're only pawns in your play of power and corruption
Slowly starve them, your new weapon of mass destruction

Refrain:
And prove to me, America, that you care
And prove to me, America, that you're aware
Who's dying for your freedom in this land
Who pays the cost for the liberties you demand?

Is it for freedom, or our comfort and convenience
Is it to profit for big business we pledge our allegiance?
Are we prisoners in the land of the brave and the bold?
Held by indifference or hearts grown hard and cold?

Children of the world, you have the right
To sing and dance, run and play, let your dreams take flight
As the innocent die, you rulers carry the shame
And if we stand idly by, we share in the blame.

And oh America, do we care?
Oh, America, are we aware?
Who's dying for our comfort in this land?
Who pays the cost for the convenience we demand?

With the U.S. the only country to block UN Action for a ceasefire to the Gaza Conflict, it is even more important for the American people to answer the song's final question "America, do we care?" So please write and speak out wherever you are! If you are in Minnesota, please come out to the MN State Capitol, 75 Rev ML King Blvd, St Paul on Monday, January 5th at 1 pm, and wear all black to mourn the innocent lives lost in Gaza and urge the U.S. to support diplomacy instead of violence.

Let's not forget the quote (from Israeli historian Yahuda Bauer) that hangs on a wall of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.: "Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."

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Check my site, and do your own research, but it damn sure looks like they are using White Phosphorous against populated areas in Gaza.

This is yet another war crime. White Phosphorous is condemned by almost every single civilized nation as a "chemical weapon" and the Geneva Convention classifies it as a "chemical weapon" and outlaws it's use.

http://willyloman.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/is-israel-shelling-the-people...

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