[Vision2020] Simple Song of Freedom

[lfalen]

Nick
We are not directly fighting for our freedom in Iraq, but I question that it about big oil either.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Nick Gier ngier at uidaho.edu
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:34:26 -0700
To: lfalen lfalen at turbonet.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Simple Song of Freedom

> Hi Roger:
> 
> Please tell me how we are maintaining our freedoms by fighting the 
> war in Iraq.  The only freedom being fought for is the freedom for 
> our oil companies to export Iraqi oil.
> 
> Nick
> 
> At 10:01 AM 7/7/2008, you wrote:
> >Nobody in their right mind wants war, but sometimes you have to 
> >fight to maintain your freedom.
> >Roger
> >-----Original message-----
> >From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
> >Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:01:40 -0700
> >To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> >Subject: [Vision2020] Simple Song of Freedom
> >
> > > Written (and performed) in 1969 by Bobby Darin . . .
> > >
> > > "Simple Song of Freedom"
> > > http://www.tomandrodna.com/Songs/Freedom.mp3
> > >
> > > "Come and sing a simple song of freedom
> > > Sing it like you've never sung before
> > > Let it fill the air
> > > Tell the people everywhere
> > > We, the people here, don't want a war
> > >
> > > Hey, there, Mister Black Man can you hear me
> > > I don't want your diamonds or your game
> > > I just want to be someone who knows to you as me
> > > And I will bet my life you want the same
> > >
> > > Come and sing a simple song of freedom
> > > Sing it like you've never sung before
> > > Let it fill the air
> > > Tell the people everywhere
> > > We, the people here, don't want a war
> > >
> > > Seven hundred million are you listening
> > > Most of what you read is made of lies
> > > But speaking one to one, ain't it everybody's sun
> > > To wake to in the morning when we rise
> > >
> > > Come and sing a simple song of freedom
> > > Sing it like you've never sung before
> > > Let it fill the air
> > > Tell the people everywhere
> > > We, the people here, don't want a war
> > >
> > > No doubt some folks enjoy doing battle
> > > Like presidents, Prime ministers and kings
> > > So let's all build them shelves
> > > So they can fight among themselves
> > > And leave the people be who love to sing
> > >
> > > Come and sing a simple song of freedom
> > > Sing it like you've never sung before
> > > Let it fill the air
> > > Tell the people everywhere
> > > We, the people here, don't want a war
> > >
> > > Come and sing a simple song of freedom
> > > Sing it like you've never sung before
> > > Speaking one to one, ain't it everybody's
> > > Ain't it everybody's sun
> > > To wake to in the morning when we rise
> > > When we rise"
> > >
> > > ------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Seeya at Friendship Square, Moscow.
> > >
> > > Tom Hansen
> > > Moscow, Idaho
> > >
> > > "Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the
> > > tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime."
> > >
> > > -- Adlai E. Stevenson, Jr.
> > >
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> "Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to 
> human affairs."
> --Ralph Waldo Emerson
> 
> "Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who 
> represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."
>   --Mohandas Gandhi
> 
> "Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be 
> discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each 
> part by itself. . . .We must keep our attention fixed on the whole 
> and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our 
> intellectual life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between 
> science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the 
> sum of its various parts." --Max Planck
> 
> Nicholas F. Gier
> Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Idaho
> 1037 Colt Rd., Moscow, ID 83843
> http://www.home.roadrunner.com/~nickgier/home.htm
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> 
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