WHILE I SIT HERE TRYING TO THINK OF THINGS TO SAY
SOMEONE LIES BLEEDING IN A FIELD SOMEWHERE
SO IT WOULD SEEM WE'VE STILL GOT A LONG LONG WAY TO GO
I'VE SEEN ALL I WANNA SEE TODAY
WHILE I SIT HERE TRYING TO MOVE YOU ANYWAY I CAN
SOMEONE'S SON LIES DEAD IN A GUTTER SOMEWHERE
AND IT WOULD SEEM THAT WE'VE GOT A LONG LONG WAY TO GO
BUT I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE
SWITCH IT OFF IT WILL GO AWAY
TURN IT OFF IF YOU WANT TO
SWITCH IT OFF OR LOOK AWAY
WHILE I SIT AND WE TALK AND TALK AND WE TALK SOME MORE
SOMEONE'S LOVED ONE'S HEART STOPS BEATING IN A STREET SOMEWHERE
SO IT WOULD SEEM WE'VE STILL GOT A LONG LONG WAY TO GO, I KNOW
I'VE HEARD ALL I WANNA HEAR TODAY
TURN IT OFF IF YOU WANT TO (TURN IT OFF IF YOU WANT TO)
SWITCH IT OFF IT WILL GO AWAY (SWITCH IT OFF IT WILL GO AWAY)
TURN IT OFF IF YOU WANT TO (TURN IT OFF IF YOU WANT TO)
SWITCH IT OFF OR LOOK AWAY (SWITCH IT OFF OR LOOK AWAY)
SWITCH IT OFF
SWITCH IT OFF
SWITCH IT OFF
SWITCH IT OFF
SWITCH IT OFF
TURN IT OFF
thanks phil collins for the words
my heart to the people of Haiti
Thanks for this
Tinoire (1000+ posts) Wed May-26-04 10:20 PM
Go America. Just GO! GO AWAY! / My response to your powerful post
But these light-skinned people, descendants of the Old Colonials, and their darker skinned "house niggers"
living in these houses
and riding these very rare horses in Haiti on jump courses most Upper-class Americans can only dream of
thought it was worth it
to send School of the Americas thugs like these to kill our own countrymen
and bring the Ton-Ton Macoute Republican/DLC-loving tortures back.
These people, very dark-skinned as you can see, disagreed.
This boy will die from it
This girl, still alive, dreams of a better world
http://www.sakapfet.com/photocontest/2003/images/entries/Mariejo%20Mont-Reynaud,%20Palo%20alto,%20CA/The%20%20Red%20Kivet,%20Fort%20Kampon,%204hrs%20Hike%20from%20Leogane.jpg Be afraid America. We will gracefully carry our burden but we shall expose your shame once again, just as in 1804.
http://www.sakapfet.com/photocontest/2003/images/entries/Andre%20Boulmier,%20Meyrin%20Switzerland/Commerce%20de%20Proximite,%20Port-au-Prince.jpgbecause our children, too, have a right to dreams & rightful expectations of a decent life
http://www.sakapfet.com/photocontest/2003/images/entries/Jermain%20J%20Merola,%20Jacquet%20Haiti/Haut%20de%20Kenscoff1.jpgWe shall not forgive you or the evil bogeymen you bought
We shall not forget the boys you slaughtered
all in the name of Americans and Haitian collaborators who live in homes like this
So take your ass-hole
Take your DLC
Take your God-damned imperialistic military
And get the fuck out of my country
No need to fly your Stars and Stripes
because we have our own flag of which we are sufficiently proud, & which means things through its colors which give you NIGHTMARES
& a constitution that REALLY meant something and liberated South American countries from 'subsidizing' your way of life
Haiti, not America, was the first "Free" Republic in the Western Hemisphere but it galls America, built on the blood & sweat of slaves, to acknowledge that a bunch of slaves whooped imperialistic ass.
18 May, 2004 denouncing the US occupation of Haiti
Tens of thousands of Haitians took to the streets on May 18 to call for the return of democratically elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and for an end to the country’s foreign military occupation.
Haitian police units backed up by U.S. Marines fired in the air and into crowds, killing at least one demonstrator. Saintus “Titus” Simpson, 23, of Delmas 33 was shot in the head, spilling his brain, as demonstrators approached the central Champ de Mars square.
Marguerite Laurent of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership cited sources saying that at least four people died. “One Haitian woman seized the fourth body that fell next to her and refused to give it to the Marines,” Laurent reported. “She removed all her clothes to show she had no weapons while Marines surrounded her at gunpoint. She cursed in Kreyol, calling on the revolutionary ancestors and shouting “Liberte ou lamo!” (Liberty or death!) She picked up the body herself and put it on her bare back, daring the Marines to kill her also while she carried it away.”
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The night before the march, U.S. helicopters flew and hovered low all over the city, Washington’s now common form of psychological warfare in Haiti.
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http://www.haitiprogres.com/eng05-19.html