<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><br><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><h1 style="line-height: 1.35em; margin: 0.35em 0px; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif;">11-9-2016</h1><div><div>By John Gordon</div><div><br></div><div>On Election night, twentysixteen</div><div>I saw a strange and surreal scene</div><div>I looked cross the great harbor at Lady Liberty that night</div><div>And I knew right away, something wasn’t right</div><div>I saw Lady Liberty and she was crying</div><div>Because the America she loved, now was dying</div><div><br></div><div>She once welcomed millions to this golden shore</div><div>But now they ‘re not welcome here anymore</div><div>I thought of Ellis Island, where they once came through the doors</div><div>Millions of feet crossing the Great Hall’s floors</div><div><br></div><div>They brought their hopes, they brought their dreams </div><div>They brought their plans, they brought their schemes</div><div>They brought their laughter, they brought their tears</div><div>They brought their love and they brought their fears</div><div><br></div><div>They came with their families or came alone</div><div>Some names we know, but most unknown</div><div><br></div><div>They joined the huddled masses already here</div><div>The marginalized, the forgotten, the second-class tier</div><div>The wretched refuse that made this land great</div><div>Yet met with derision, scorn and hate</div><div><br></div><div>The First Peoples of this Mother Earth</div><div>forced off the land of their ancestors birth</div><div>forced to flee, run and hide</div><div>one step ahead of the Genocide</div><div><br></div><div>those that suffered from old Jim Crow</div><div>pleading for rights, met with a NO</div><div>When they were polite and asked with a Please</div><div>They were met with a Noose thrown over the trees</div><div><br></div><div>Many worked hard and were met with success</div><div>Their children grew up to be America’s best</div><div>Many here now forget where they came</div><div>Their immigrant ancestor, can’t remember the name</div><div>Can’t remember the ancestor that came here by boat</div><div>Can’t remember the issues or the last vote</div><div><br></div><div>Once we were great but that’s in the past</div><div>Don’t blame us that it didn’t last</div><div>Our country is changing from sea to sea</div><div>Too many people not like me</div><div><br></div><div>The only way is to take it back</div><div>go out and stop them, go on the attack</div><div>The others are the people that caused our pain</div><div>Push them all out, again we will gain</div><div><br></div><div>So he vowed an America, that’s once again great</div><div>To get there, he said, America must hate</div><div>Hate those others that are not like us</div><div>Put them again on the back of the bus</div><div>America first! and thats not all</div><div>protect ourselves, lets build a wall</div><div>We can bring back the greatness of a past day</div><div>All we have to do is chant U-S-A</div><div><br></div><div>The lamp beside the golden door</div><div>Doesn’t seem so bright anymore</div><div><br></div><div>It sounds so simple, but it’s really so Grand</div><div>An idea we once used to build this land</div><div>E Pluribus Unum, Out of Many, One</div><div>An idea that that’s Sinking with the Setting Sun.</div></div><div><br></div>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>