Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
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I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.
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Incommunicado
(fish, steve rothery, mark kelly, pete trewavas, ian mosley)
Id be really pleased to meet you if I could remember your name
But I got problems of the memory ever since I got a winner in the fame game
Im a citizen of legoland travellin incommunicado
And I dont give a damn for the fleet street afficionados
But I dont want to be the backpage interview
I dont want launderette anonymity
I want my handprints in the concrete on sunset boulevard
A dummy in tussauds youll see
Incommunicado, incommunicado, incommunicado, incommunicado
Im a marquee veteran, a multi-media bonafide celebrity
Ive got an allergy to perrier, daylight and responsibility
Im a rootin-tootin cowboy, the peter pan, the street credibility
Always taking the point with the dawn patrol fraternity
Sometimes it seems like Ive been here before when I hear opportunity kicking in my door
Call it synchronicity call it deja vu I just put my faith in destiny -- its the way that I choose
But I dont want to be a tin can tied to the bumper of a wedding limousine
Or currently residing in the where are they now file a toupet on the cabaret scene
I want to do adverts for american express cards talk shows on prime time tv
A villa in france, my own cocktail bar and thats where youre gonna find me
Incommunicado, incommunicado, incommunicado, incommunicado
Sometimes it seems like Ive been here before when I hear opportunity kicking in my door
Call it synchronicity call it deja vu I just put my faith in destiny -- its the way that I choose
Incommunicado, incommunicado, incommunicado, incommunicado
Its the only way
Incommunicado, incommunicado, incommunicado, incommunicado
song performed by by Marillion
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In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
quote by Michael Novak
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There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.
quote by Denis Diderot
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
quote by Sally Quinn
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Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.
quote by Lawrence Lessig
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Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
quote by Natan Sharansky
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Attica State
What a waste of human power
What a waste of human lives
Shoot the prisoners in the towers
Forty-three poor widowed wives
Attica state, attica state,
Were all mates with attica state
Media blames it on the prisoners
But the prisoners did not kill
Rockefeller pulled the trigger
That is what the people feel
Attica state, attica state,
Were all mates with attica state
Free the prisoners, jail the judges
Free all prisoners everywhere
All they want is truth and justice
All they need is love and care
Attica state, attica state,
Were all mates with attica state
They all live in suffocation
Lets not watch them die in sorrow
Nows the time for revolution
Give them all a chance to grow
Attica state, attica state,
Were all mates with attica state
Come together join the movement
Take a stand for human rights
Fear and hatred clouds our judgement
Free us all from endless night
Attica state, attica state,
Were all mates with attica state
Attica state, attica state,
We all live in attica state
Attica state, attica state,
Attica, attica, attica state
song performed by by Lennon John
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There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
quote by Walter Lippmann
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Incommunicado
By: jimmy buffett, deborah mccoll, m.l. benoit
1980
For the duke and travis mcgee
Travis mcgees still in cedar key
Thats what ol john macdonald said
My rendezvouss so long overdue
With all of the things Ive sung and Ive read
They still apply to me
They all make sense in time
Chorus:
But now Im incommunicado
Drivin by myself down the road with a hole in it
Songs with no vibrato
Takin the long way home
Now on the day that john wayne died
I found myself on the continental divide
Tell me where do I go from here
Think Ill ride into leadville and have a few beers
I think of red river or liberty valance
Cant believe the old mans gone
Chorus:
But now hes incommunicado
Leavin such a hole in a world that believed
That a life with such bravado
Was takin the right way home
So when I finished that last line
I put the book by itself on the shelf with my heart in it
Never wastin time takin the right way home
I know Im never wastin time findin the right way home
Chorus:
Still I am incommunicado
Livin next door to a leg with a pin in it
Life with such bravado
Is takin the right way home
Tryin to make it
Tryin to fake it
Tryin to take it home
Tryin to make it
Tryin to fake it
Tryin to take it home
I know im...
Tryin to make it
Sometimes I fake it
Tryin to take it home
All Im doing is...
Tryin to make it
Tryin to fake it
Tryin to take it home
But now Im incommunicado...
song performed by by Jimmy Buffett
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Cry for Me
Can I hold you?
I just wanna hold you.
I dont know why?
I wanna hold you.
I wanna be the one to make you cry.
The box of tissues remain on the table,
they have been awaiting your waterworks.
Your waterworks.
They have been awaiting your cheeks.
Yes I have the cheek.
They can come down mine if they run down yours
I dont know what I have
but whatever it is
it is the key to open the doors of your mind and your heart.
Can I hold you?
See.
I want you to hold more than your body against me.
My wrongs show you care.
Your tears are not guilty
they are prisoners that need to be set free
I wanna be the one to make you cry
If you do
I promise you
we will find your truth
you wont need to hide
I will hold you.
poem by Daniel McCann
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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.
quote by Natan Sharansky
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P.O.W. (Prisoners Of War)
Locked up in a cell
The prisoners of war light the fuse to the dynamite
The door is blasted off the hinges
The prisoners of war escape through the opening where the door was
Enemy soldiers, one by one, are notified
And one by one
They try to take down the prisoners of war
War isn't pretty
War is hell
The enemy soldiers break out the guns and knives
Ready to take the prisoners of war down
But the prisoners of war do a wonderful job of fighting and staying alive
More enemy soldiers are dispatched
Some climb down or dropp off ladders
Some flip and somersault
Some continue walking and running on the ground
After dispatching the enemy soldiers
The prisoners of war climb the ladder
To where they can plan their escape
To where they can make their escape
To where they can escape in a helicopter
Leaving the life of war far behind
poem by Justin Gildow
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In contrast, fear societies are societies in which dissent is banned.
quote by Natan Sharansky
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Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
quote by Mortimer Adler
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A Smile's Sacrifies
Chains around my neck
rope around my throat
dazzles in the sun as i breathe
tightenings in the air
as i grasp for breath
cuffs on my arms as i am isolated
shackles on me limiting my movements
i often wander how big a step
have we taking to move forward
my ancestors thought for the freedom
for my freedom and did it with a smile
and though life has changed
yet we are all prisoners
prisoners of the mind
our ancestor kept a smile
in belief that rain came
after every drought no
matter how long
a wise man one said
not cause we are prisoners
should we act like prisoners
because in the end all that matters
is the smile on the face of someone
to show everyone there is still hope
poem by Robert Roberts
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Neither you nor I
Cows breed more, deer breed more and hares breed more;
They must breed more for forests want them more.
They must feed lions, tigers and foxes
With their casualties in multitudes.
The poor breed more and the lowly breed more;
They must breed more for societies want them more
They must serve the rich, masters and leaders
With their casualties in multitudes.
Between the forests and the societies,
The difference is: forests gave no saints
Whereas the societies gave saints in chain.
No change in societies as in forests..
Who is the planer? Who can defeat him?
Who is the keeper? Who can control him?
Who is the owner? Who can approach him?
Neither you nor I can reform the world.
15.07.2008
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
quote by Daniel Webster
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There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably multiple reasons. Certainly proliferation is a hard thing to track, particularly in countries that deny easy and free access and don't have free and open societies.
Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
quote by Natan Sharansky
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