Elvis has left the building

Independence Day. In the movie, when the mother ship explodes, Will Smith says: Elvis has left the building.

Independence Day. The Bill of Rights has left the building. We have a concentration camp in the Everglades. It’s not there because of the alligators. It’s there so We The People can’t see what’s happening to the people illegally seized and incarcerated there.

We have a president who claims to love Jews. I never believed that for a minute. That’s the same president who said there are good nazis. Okay, there are good nazis – and every one of them is dead. Now, the same president claims some bankers are shylocks. Shylock is the name of the money lender in Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice. The character is a Jew who wants a pound of flesh if he isn’t repaid the money he lent.

We have a suspension of due process. We have idiots in charge of the Department of Justice and Health and Human Services. We have a psychopath in the White House.

We have a congress that passed a horrible bill designed by a psychopath and voted on by degenerate politicians who would rather bow to a dictator than do what’s morally right.

Nobody living can ever stop me as I go walking the freedom highway Nobody living can make me turn back This land was made for you and me. Woody Guthrie

Pete Seeger was hauled in front of the House Unamerican Activities Committee for singing that song. During the same time, I had a music teacher who taught us a folk song. I lived in a republican town. Mother Theresa couldn’t get elected if she ran as a democrat. The teacher taught us This Land Is Your Land and told us it was written by a famous folk singer. She put her job on the line when she did that.

But this land is still troubled by men who have to hate. They twist away our freedom and twist away our fate. Law is their weapon and treason is their cry. You can stop them if you try. Phil Ochs, Power and The Glory.

This verse was left off for the commercial recording. Ochs wanted to make a patriotic song and thought that verse was inappropriate. Wrong Phil. It’s damned appropriate. It’s the First Amendment in action. We must speak out. We must stop them.

If we don’t stop them, the constitution and the Bill of Rights will leave the building.