Fresh Agitprop Here!
Posted on 10/23/2005 3:06:09 PM PDT by churchillbuff
The Okie from Muskogee speaks out. Merle Haggard Takes Another Musical Stand: Outspoken Musical Icon Urges, "Rebuild America First." No audio yet, but Haggard's new Chicago Wind CD, out next Tuesday (Oct. 25), includes the tune in the headline.
Chet Flippo (yes, the early Rolling Stone senior editor, now at Country Music Television as CMT/CMT.com Editorial Director) quotes some of it:
"Yea, men in position but backing away/Freedom is stuck in reverse/Let's get out of Iraq and get back on the track/And let's rebuild America first."
Haggard also comments on the current political and social scene in the song, "Where's All the Freedom?" He describes a country almost paralyzed by uncertainty, a nation where the Ten Commandments can't be displayed, where the grandparent of a soldier in Iraq can't afford to buy gasoline to drive to the grocery store, where individual rights are uncertain anymore.
He concludes: "Are we a nation under God anymore/How long do we cower down/Is this really still our ground/Our country is like a prisoner of war/Where's all the freedom that we're fightin' for."
Merle, America is not as selfish and provincial as France. Deal with it.
This has GOT to be a mistake.
Could anyone be that dumb?
Good points Merle: Our fighting men are dying for "freedom" in Iraq - but we can't display the Ten Commandments in the USA. LET'S HAVE FREEDOM IN AMERICA FIRST!!!
Maybe he wonders whether it's worth American blood to establish an Islamic Republica in Iraq.
Bush is all for freedom in Iraq (translation: Islamic constitution), but has he said a peep about the Supreme Court decision that lets government take your home away? FREEDOM IN THE USA FIRST! I think that's what Haggard means, and I agree.
Read the article. He talks about the freedom to display the 10 Commandments - - denied to us by the ACLU. I would add the freedom to not have your home confiscated by government for "redevelopment." And how about the freedom to keep most of what you earn? We aren't free in America - we work for the government, and for lazy public employees who have fat pensions courtesy of our high taxes. I wish Bush would concentrate on making Americans more free. Enough blood has been shed in Iraq, making that country safe for an Islamic constitution.
I have trouble relating to fundamentalist Christian isolationists. I just do. Conflating Constitutional jurisprudence with military and foreign policy seems rather mentally challenged to me in any event. If one cannot distinguish what should be distinguished, and find similarlities, where there are similarities, in a coherent way, one will usually come to the wrong conclusions.
Sounds like the Muskrat has lost his marbles.
Your thoughts on this are garbage.
No, the war in Iraq is costing about $1 billion a week.. THat's definitely an impediment to conservative agenda such as balancing the budget and cutting taxes, or even extending the "temporary" tax cuts. Also, the war in Iraq isn't part of a war against "Muslim terrorists," - or at least didn't start that way. Saddam was a secular dictator who had the fundamentalists brutally squashed. The chief of the Muslim terrorists is Osama, and we seem to have lost interest in him.
So now you're treating Merle Haggard to the smear photos you've always used against me as your substitute for an effective argument? Haggard gained fame as a musical supporter of the Vietnam war and traditional values. It won't wash to smear him as a anti-american appeaser. But your slime tactics against me never worked either.
Gee, the right man, in the right place, at the right time.
Twisted values lead to twisted thinking.
You swallowed DUmmism whole, and now you're barfing it back up.
Get help.
No, I read the Iraq constitution - - it makes Islam the touchstone of all laws. That wasn't worth one American life.
Her words read like a campaign brochure. It's sickening.
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