<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"><base href="x-msg://63/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div id="content" class="lyrictxt" style="font-size:15px; width: 440px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px">Sadly, almost 50 years later, this tune still rings true:</div><div id="content" class="lyrictxt" style="font-size:15px; width: 440px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px"><br></div><div id="content" class="lyrictxt" style="font-size:15px; width: 440px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px">Cops of The World </div><div id="content" class="lyrictxt" style="font-size:15px; width: 440px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px"> by Phil Ochs</div><div id="content" class="lyrictxt" style="font-size:15px; width: 440px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px"><br></div><div id="content" class="lyrictxt" style="font-size:15px; width: 440px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 10px">Come, get out of the way, boys
<br>Quick, get out of the way
<br>You'd better watch what you say, boys
<br>Better watch what you say
<br>We've rammed in your harbor and tied to your port
<br>And our pistols are hungry and our tempers are short
<br>So bring your daughters around to the port
<br>'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
<br>We're the Cops of the World
<br>We pick and choose as please, boys
<br>Pick and choose as please
<br>You'd best get down on your knees, boys
<br>Best get down on your knees
<br>We're hairy and horny and ready to shack
<br>And we don't care if you're yellow or black
<br>Just take off your clothes and lay down on your back
<br>'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
<br>We're the Cops of the World
<br>Our boots are needing a shine, boys
<br>Boots are needing a shine
<br>But our Coca-Cola is fine, boys
<br>Coca-Cola is fine
<br>We've got to protect all our citizens fair
<br>So we'll send a battalion for everyone there
<br>And maybe we'll leave in a couple of years
<br>'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
<br>We're the Cops of the World
<br>And dump the reds in a pile, boys
<br>Dump the reds in a pile
<br>You'd better wipe off that smile, boys
<br>Better wipe off that smile
<br>We'll spit through the streets of the cities we wreck
<br>And we'll find you a leader that you can't elect
<br>Those treaties we signed were a pain in the neck
<br>'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
<br>We're the Cops of the World
<br>And clean the johns with a rag, boys
<br>Clean the johns with a rag
<br>If you like you can use your flag, boys
<br>If you like you can use your flag
<br>We've got too much money we're looking for toys
<br>And guns will be guns and boys will be boys
<br>But we'll gladly pay for all we destroy
<br>'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
<br>We're the Cops of the World
<br>Please stay off of the grass, boys
<br>Please stay off of the grass
<br>Here's a kick in the ass, boys
<br>Here's a kick in the ass
<br>We'll smash down your doors, we don't bother to knock
<br>We've done it before, so why all the shock
<br>We're the biggest and the toughest kids on the block
<br>And we're the Cops of the World, boys
<br>We're the Cops of the World
<br>And when we butchered your sons, boys
<br>When we butchered your sons
<br>Have a stick of our gum, boys
<br>Have a stick of our bubble gum
<br>We own half the world, oh say can you see
<br>And the name for our profits is democracy
<br>So, like it or not, you will have to be free
<br>'Cause we're the Cops of the World, boys
<br>We're the Cops of the World</div>
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<div class="ringtone"><span class="phone_left"></span></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Feb 11, 2013, at 6:10 AM, Sunil Ramalingam <<a href="mailto:sunilramalingam@hotmail.com">sunilramalingam@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div dir="ltr">I agree with you. There isn't any authority to pursue this and yet people just accept it. I was debating this with a high school classmate who is very far right. There are no domestic policies where he will support Obama, or believe a word he says. But he's behind this policy. He doesn't need proof, he says just go kiill them.<br><br>Democrats have sanctioned this since Obama took power, and now it's a bipartisan policy. Makes it clear that many protests while Bush was President were political, not rooted in principle. And the only Republican running for president who opposed this was Ron Paul, who was marginalized for his domestic policies. There was no real analysis of what he was saying about foreign policy, where we could have had an important discussion about the issue.<br><br>Underlying all this are a number of things. First, people keep saying 'We're at war,' but they don't say that it's a war that apparently will go on forever. Will these powers ever be restrained? Not if the executive wants to hang on to the power, and the People refuse to challenge him on this. Second, shouldn't we be asking 'Why do we have bases around the world? Is this an Empire? Why do we have one? What does it cost us? What else could we be doing with that money?'<br><br>Sunil<br><br><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div></div></div></div></div><br></body></html>