Hi Smedleys & Samanthas,
Someone just asked me to post the song I wrote that I read at the Veterans
/ Armistice Day Rally at Faneuil Hall. It is entitled "Extremists" and was
inspired by the ACLUM's "Policing Descent", the monitoring of Peace Groups by
the Boston Police.
Extremists
Chorus
They say that we’re
extremists
Cause we’re out here in the
street
How unpatriotic to be marching for
peace
They say “we better watch them, like
never before”
Cause there’s nothing more
dangerous
Than Veterans Against
War
Verse
So they stand on every corner, with
their cameras in their hands
Taking film and snapping pictures of
everything they can
They develop film and write reports
on everything they saw
Protecting all our citizens from
folks who broke no law
They’ve been doing this so long,
they know us to our core
They know we’re peaceful veterans,
who know the cost of war
Because we’ve seen the horror, and
the price we always pay
They have to document everything we
do and say
They got Home Land Security, FBI and
DIA
State and local police, don’t forget
the CIA
Why, we are so important, a clear
danger to the land
Can’t let this love and peace thing,
get too far out of hand
Well they got their Bric, play all
their tricks, wasting all our dough
All those files and pictures, with
nothing much to show
So we raise our voices here today,
to let them know it’s time
Stop hassling the peace groups, go
back to fighting crime
© Patrick J. Scanlon
2012
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