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    The Declaration - The Fifth Dimension

    By Donal on Thu, 10/27/2011 - 8:20pm |

    I used to listen to this constantly.

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    This is delightfull and I do not recall hearing it before.

    Should be required listening once a month through primary and secondary schooling!

    I thought you were referring to this lilt however:


    by Richard Day on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 2:38am

    I can't see youtubes at work, but I'll check it out after the weekend. In the blurb under the video info the youtube poster mentions that the 5th Dim's performance of The Declaration on the Ed Sullivan show (long train of usurpations, etc.) was taken as an attack on Nixon.


    by Donal on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 9:50am


    by Resistance on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 6:14pm

    Every time I think I have given up on any sense of 'patriotism' I hear and view videos like this and the video from Donal and I get weepy.

    There is an emotional strain in me that I shall never let go of.

    There are times in the grand history of humanity that seem to strike something in me.

    Reds is one hell of flick.

    And the French Revolution was a remarkable event.

    But the words, if only words, that were spoken in 1776 were incredible.

    Hypocrisy aside, it was one hell of a moment in Human History.'

    The Buchanans of the world would sully these words maintaining that this Declaration was nothing but a speech given by white 'Christians' who would establish a white land holding republic upon this continent.

    And I become so angry at that take on a promise of real freedom and a promise of real justice.

    The American Way.

    Perhaps I have read too many comic books! ha


    by Richard Day on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 6:25pm

     

    Occupy America? Occupy the World?@3:55

     

    Dick, I don't see how this occupy movement can retract, IMHO the wheels are in motion for a confrontation.

    Not what I would want; but what those in power reaped. 

    Will those in power yield?

    The people are angry and mistrustful, they will not accept superficial words of healing or sympathy .

    Can you imagine some politician saying to the protestors, "Go home, we've heard your grievances,  we will address your concerns. Go home we can have peace"   

    They offer superficial treatments for my people's mortal wound. They give assurances of peace when there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14

     


    by Resistance on Fri, 10/28/2011 - 7:05pm

    Well put and fantastic add ons by the way. Good videos.

    See, I am emotional again. hahaahah


    by Richard Day on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 2:38am

    When I was a young person in elementary school I never cared for the patriotic jingoism.

    The indoctrination.

    Then came the Vietnam draft and it hardened my heart further.

    Things changed later in my life, when I had an opportunity to go to Colonial Williamsburg

    Thomas Jefferson (actor) surrounded by citizens, was giving his speech below the big shade tree, by the Governors Mansion,

    I then asked the actor; why he hadn't been arrested for sedition; his reply " In two weeks a warrant would be issued for his and others arrest" 

    I then ran towards the theater to catch the performance of Patrick Henry.

    It moved me emotionally to hear him speak of the blockade of Boston Harbor and the suffering because they were to be punished for dumping the Tea.

    I began to appreciate the sacrifices of our forefathers.

    The next day I visited Yorktown, and sat outside a pub on the Chesapeake, realizing that in that same area, many years before,  the British Man-o- Wars had been anchored.

    How the Hessian armies were brought in to attack the village  You could see the headstones and could visualize the carnage.  

    That same trip I had a tour guide lead us through Gettysburg

    Years later going to Tennessee, to see Housing developments erected on the same fields and ridges  the Confederates had used to escape the advancing Union soldiers.

    A sign along the highway marked the spot. I'd have missed it had I been distracted or in a hurry.

    Emotional is what I get, when I see Corporations rather than the people, reaping the reward from the blood sacrificed. 


    by Resistance on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 3:52am

    Memory lane there. Lived right in the middle of that area when I was little. Between mom & dad, touristy guests and school field trips I must have been trundled along to every historic site within 5 hours of us. Valley Forge was one of my favorites too - behind the colonial forts in Virginia and Sugarloaf Mt. (I was always into forts). Sadly, some of the less exciting destinations you'd end up walking a mile to look at like three blocks they called (for all I know, correctly) a "foundation" of something or other with a series of plaques. Booriiiiing ... considering one could see the preserved bloody pants and boot from some dude who had his leg amputated elsewhere nearby! You definitely hit some of the good uns though ... especially Williamsburg; that place is quite unique. Harpers Ferry is really cool too.

    I think to whatever extent I actually absorbed history it was largely through the various sites preserved and artifacts presented by the Parks Service. They do some really cool stuff.

    Did I mention. Also too. fuck that dude who wants to drown our government in a bathtub. Also.


    by kgb999 on Sat, 10/29/2011 - 6:33am