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The Good Corporal: To the Exposers of Power and the Troublers of Dreams
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The Good Corporal: To the Exposers of Power and the Troublers of Dreams [Image: pdf_button.png] [Image: printButton.png] [Image: emailButton.png] Written by Chris Floyd Friday, 29 October 2010 23:40 This one goes out to Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, Daniel Ellsberg, Sibel Edmonds, and "all those who speak the hard truth to the state."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zeb5pSKH...r_embedded

The Good Corporal
Good corporal, good corporal, now what have you done?
You've laid out the dead in the light of the sun.
You've opened the door where the dark deeds go on,
Where the fine words of freedom are broken like bones.

Good corporal, good corporal, you tell us of crime
Done in the name of your country and mine.
Of torture and murder, corruption and lies,
In a land where no echo will carry the cries.

Good corporal, good corporal, now who do we blame
For the horrors you bring us, for this undying shame?
Should we lay all the guilt on the grunts with no name,
Or the high and the mighty who rigged up this game?

Good corporal, good corporal, don't you know the fate
Of all those who speak the hard truth to the State
And all who trouble the people's sweet dreams?
They're mocked into scorn and torn apart at the seams.

Good corporal, good corporal, what have you done?
You've laid out the dead in the light of the sun.

© 2010 by Chris Floyd


http://www.chris-floyd.com/articles/1-la...reams.html
"Where is the intersection between the world's deep hunger and your deep gladness?"
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Good and powerful song there. I hope it gets lots of coverage. All of these people really are heroic and we should sing their songs for centuries.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx

"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.

“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
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