Saturday, November 17, 2012

From The Smedley Butler Brigade -Veterans For Peace

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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