{"id":239,"date":"2006-07-04T18:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-04T18:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=239"},"modified":"2015-11-02T16:57:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T00:57:26","slug":"shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/07\/04\/shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Don't\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You want to talk about desecrating the flag of the United States of America?<\/p>\n

How about making it a symbol around the world of rape, murder, corruption, greed, and wanton destruction?<\/p>\n

It’s apparently easy for some to say, The world is wrong and we are right…<\/span><\/p>\n

It rolls from their tongue. It’s second nature for them to blame the other guy because they seem to know in their heart of hearts that they<\/span> are always right.<\/p>\n

Maybe they<\/span> think God talks to them and tells them what they do and think is right, like the current president of our great nation, certain in his own inerrancy as only a self-appointed messiah can be.<\/p>\n

History is strewn with the twisted stories of these people who commit the most heinous crimes against man and nature and God with the apparent certainty that they are right and the world is wrong.<\/span>
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\n<\/span>Yet those oblivious to the lessons of history — and certainly our current national leadership seem manifestly incapable of learning any lessons at all — doom themselves to repeat that sad history.<\/p>\n

When they only harm themselves, I guess that’s their<\/span> business.<\/p>\n

But when they drag our flag and our beloved nation through the ignorance, selfishness, filth and hatred in their hearts — they wound us all.<\/p>\n

Whether we like it or not, we cannot help but share the shame that they bring us.<\/p>\n\n

Archive.org page<\/a>
\n[multiple download\/streaming formats]<\/span><\/p>\n

first AYoS version<\/a>
\nsecond AYoS version<\/a><\/p>\n

HAVE U EMBRACED THE BEAST?<\/p>\n

Have you embraced the beast?
\nI see the mark is on your face
\nHave you embraced the beast?
\nAre you a slave of greed and hate?<\/p>\n

Have you embraced the beast?
\nDo you serve the war machine?
\nHave you embraced the beast?
\nDid you trade in your soul for the finer thinsg?<\/p>\n

Have you embraced the beast?
\nDo your taxes buy bullets for fascist death squads?
\nHave you embraced the beast?
\nThey’ll be coming to your hometown before too long . . .<\/p>\n

Have you embraced the beast?
\nI see the mark is on your face
\nHave you embraced the beast?
\nAre you a slave of greed and hate?<\/p>\n

Have you embraced the beast?<\/p>\n

Copyright 1984
\nT.K. Major<\/p>\n

Flag image courtesy: Free Clipart or Photos: www.ace-clipart.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 You want to talk about desecrating the flag of the United States of America? How about making it a symbol around the world of rape, murder, corruption, greed, and wanton destruction? It’s apparently easy for some to say, The world is wrong and we are right… It rolls from their tongue. It’s second nature […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,340,67],"tags":[281,45,561,500,822],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}