When I travelled around America trying environmental and nuclear whistleblower cases, 1990-2004, I would sometimes type up and print out this prayer in large type, leaving it on my counsel table as I cross-examined assorted sordid Little Hitlers oppressing my clients, at intellectually impoverished employers like Tennessee Valley Authority, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy, Lockheed Martin, Southern California Edison and Public Service Electric Y Gas of New Jersey:,
General Patton's Prayer Before Bastogne, Written by Fr. James Hugh O'Neill
In secret, behind locked gates, our Nation's Oldest City dumped a landfill in a lake (Old City Reservoir), while emitting sewage in our rivers and salt marsh. Organized citizens exposed and defeated pollution, racism and cronyism. We elected a new Mayor. We're transforming our City -- advanced citizenship. Ask questions. Make disclosures. Demand answers. Be involved. Expect democracy. Report and expose corruption. Smile! Help enact a St. Augustine National Park and Seashore. We shall overcome!
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Why a war metaphor directed to a fantasy?
A fantasy that in great part has been co-opted by xtrevilism to create and sustain its privileged position in its crumbunist system — an immoral caste system that keeps all of us in a forced complicity that we must pretend to like.
Maybe a little John Lennon might be more combative yet more inspirational?
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people living for today
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people living life in peace, you
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people sharing all the world, you
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope some day you'll join us
And the world will be as one
Keep hammering Ed!
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