In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
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Saying the unspeakable
Such as President Obama
may not say it; but I
who am nobody, may speak it:
the God of many names and One
does not wish division;
you and I (there are no others?)
do not wish division;
who makes division?
Why do all seek an ‘enemy’?
The dispossessed invent an enemy
on whom to blame their plight;
the rich invent an enemy
to excuse their greed;
those who worship God under one name
make enemy of those who worship God
under another name;
even those who worship God under the same name
make sects in order to invent an enemy;
is it because it is easier
to make an enemy than a friend?
is it easier to fear
than to love?
is it easier to hate
than to love?
is it easier to count to two
than think of three or one?
do we feel more powerful
if we have an enemy?
and now we fire at enemies
invisible beyond the horizon..
are enemies more attractive
to our life than friends?
Tell me, poets, tell me, sages;
tell me, saints; oh tell me God;
tell me, arithmeticians:
when division multiplies
our enemies, why do we
so love division?
The God of many names and One
makes division in Himself
with love and without hate;
you and I (there are no others?)
love each other all the more
in the sameness of our differences;
does human kind
now hate itself so much?
who thinks division, loves division?
makes an enemy of otherness?
forgets that God is One?
poem by Michael Shepherd
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Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
quote by Natan Sharansky
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There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.
quote by Charles de Secondat
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Pie In The Sky
It takes photon power
And eight minutes of an hour
To make it to our sun
And I know it sounds weird
But itll take you four years
To make the next one
Expanding border
Thats the sauce
Of chaos
And thats an order
Thats an order
So stomp your feet
And clap your hands
Get out of your seat
And do a little dance
Lift up your voice
And sing with glee
Now listen carefully to me
Desert your quarters
Behold the pie in the sky
And thats an order
Thats an order
Thats an order [7x]
song performed by by Frank Black
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The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.
quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset
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It is all too evident that our nation, and the governments of other countries, require all the help they can get in order to fight the War on Terrorism against people who have no qualms about taking the lives of innocent men, women, and children.
quote by Jim Sensenbrenner
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Out Of Order
heart
out of order
brain
out of order
life
out of order
poem by Nicolas Grenier
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1 1 1 Is 3
If u ain't got no place 2 stay/Come on baby 'round this way
Stay with me baby/But let me tell u how it's gonna b
There's a theocratic order./There's a theocratic order now
This is how it's gonna b/If u wanna b with me
Ain't no room 4 disagree/1+1+1 is 3
Take ur tie and think it thru/If this is what u wanna do
I ain't really that hard 2 please/Cuz 1+1+1 is 3
Stroke ur hair a hundred times/Let me c what I can find
D u know about the order./Do u know about the order, now?
The Banished Ones:
"We are the Banished Ones and we have come 2 dance
If u will not let us, we'll have 2 kick ur pants!"
Who's that knockin' on the door?/Didn't we throw u out b4?
I'm 'bout 2 get rowdy!/I'm 'bout 2 get rowdy, now!
Make me wanna do something.
We could b surrounded in the palace
"Everybody wants 2 get u!"/I don't care
How many y'all just came 2 dance?
Let me c u shake ur pants/We don't give a duck what u got on
U just need 2 work that sexy body all nite long/Come on
Where them Banished Ones at?/"Said they 'round the back"
Don't cut 'em no slack/"I'm gon' tap, tap, tap"
But should I keep this party going?/"Brotha u know that!"
Moneyapolis, sing-Rainbow Children, raise ur hands
If we can't do it, nobody can!
Here they come y'all/Rally 'round the palace now
U know what we got 2 do!
How'd that fool get up in here?
Snagglevoice.
song performed by by Prince
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Not merely an absence of noise, Real Silence begins when a reasonable being withdraws from the noise in order to find peace and order in his inner sanctuary.
quote by Peter Minard
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
quote by Margaret Young
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Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
quote by Margaret Young
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When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Robert the Bruce (To Douglas in Dying)
'MY life is done, yet all remains,
The breath has gone, the image not,
The furious shapes once forged in heat
Live on though now no longer hot.
'Steadily the shining swords
In order rise, in order fall,
In order on the beaten field
The faithful trumpets call.
'The women weeping for the dead
Are not sad now but dutiful,
The dead men stiffening in their place
Proclaim the ancient rule.
'Great Wallace's body hewn in four,
So altered, stays as it must be.
0 Douglas do not leave me now,
For past your head I see
'My dagger sheathed in Comyn's heart
And nothing there to praise or blame,
Nothing but order which must be
Itself and still the same.
'But that Christ hung upon the Cross,
Comyn would rot until time's end
And bury my sin in boundless dust,
For there is no amend.
'In order; yet in order run
All things by unreturning ways,
If Christ live not, nothing is there
For sorrow or for praise.'
So the king spoke to Douglas once
A little while before his death,
Having outfaced three English kings
And kept a people's faith.
poem by Edwin Muir
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Weather Balloons? ? ? ? for friend Thad
I’m just an ordinary guy
who’d like to know the reason why?
The powers that be resort to lies
about the strangers in our skies.
Why do they think they can conceal
what people see with their own eyes
and try to make out they aren’t real.
They wonder why no one complies.
Some may be real and some are not.
Illusions caused by tricks of light
Which will account for quite a lot.
I think that people have the right..
To be allowed to speculate
on what these U.F.Os may be
Not as they have been up to date
Bamboozled systematically.
By governments who all deny
that something strange is going on.
When questioned give the stock reply.
You are mistaken there are none.
Perhaps they’re seeking to prevent
the populace from panicking.
But being cynical I suspect
that they are only dithering.
Because they don’t know what to do.
It’s typical of governments
when they are faced by something new.
The truth leaks out by increments.
A trained observer does not lie
about the things that he has seen.
Strange lights manoeuvring in the sky.
and wonders what they might have been.
Though governments try to suppress
by any means they can conceive.
The right of people to express
what they have seen, what they believe.
I’m just an ordinary guy
I am no expert scientist
but I can see no reason why.
Alien races can’t exist.
Perhaps we are in quarantine
because we are belligerent.
and other races intervene.
From time to time with good intent.
They wait in hope we will mature
and learn to live in peace at last.
But only when they are quite sure
we’ve learned the lessons of the past.
Will they reveal themselves to us.
Not as potential enemies
but neighbours who are curious
and thus resolve the mysteries.
poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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One Thing We Should know About Terrorism
There's one thing we should know about terrorism it will not be beaten by force
But we can lessen the threat of it by treating it at it's source
Like in our attitude to those different to us since the sort of a Human World we live in we help to create
Since racism and cultural divisions only does give rise to hate
For to rid the World of terrorism there is not any plan
For if people wish to harm you they most certainly can
Why do some people hate us so much that they want to do us ill
That they even sacrifice their own lives in order us to kill?
This is the question we must ask ourselves and the answer well may be
That those we choose to Govern us create for us an enemy
And in order for to cling to power fear and paranoia of those different they do spread
And their awful war on terror have left a million people dead
But by treating the source of terrorism we may well be on our way
To a more peaceful World to live in on a not too distant day.
poem by Francis Duggan
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However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.
quote by Ahmed Yassin
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There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
quote by Jane Jacobs
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What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. Whenever governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.
quote by Elbridge Gerry
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People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.
quote by Ani DiFranco
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The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.
quote by Henry Miller
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