Showing posts with label cat stevens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cat stevens. Show all posts

Sunday, July 27, 2014

GET TOGETHER by the Youngbloods

In a time of unending war there is only one path to freedom.

Get Together.

To hear this song by the Youngbloods, please go to the following URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbrn9eXEKWk

And while we're at it

PEACE TRAIN by Cat Stevens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_X9eqYa6CQ

And not to mention IMAGINE by John Lennon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRhq-yO1KN8

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Permanent Record

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

These lines from Emma Lazurus' sonnet THE NEW COLOSSUS have graced the base of the Statue of Liberty since 1903. This open-door policy has been short-listed over the years. John Lennon was refused entry for a drug conviction and Cat Stevens aka Yusuf Islam for being granted the 2004 Man for Peace Award. Israel didn't like that, but the Zionist nation had nothing to do with a Melbourne woman earning a visa rejection.

Her crime - stealing a bar towel in Thailand. She claimed it was a joke. The bar owner didn't feel that way and the holiday-maker spent 18 days in Thai custody. Her admission of guilt earned her a six-month suspended sentence and a 2000-baht fine, but also a persona non grata status in the USA, delaying perhaps forever the pilgrimage to DisneyWorld that she had promised her four daughters.

Those new computer systems really keep out trouble-makers, especially from the convict spawn of Australia. No telling what kind of trouble those types can make in Orlando.

Homeland Security Status - Level Yellow.