Someone posted this over at respectp2p. Opinions?

http://www.news-journalonline.com/Ne...PN62051504.htm

edit: here's the poem:

Revolution X

Bush said no child would be left behind
And yet kids from inner-city schools
Work on Central Avenue
Jingling cans that read
Please sir, may I have some more?
They hand out diplomas like toilet paper
And lower school standards
Because
Underpaid, unrespected teachers
Are afraid of losing their jobs
Funded by the standardised tests
That shows our competency
When I'm in detox.

This is the Land of the Free ...
Where the statute of limitations for rape is only five damn years!
And immigrants can't run for President.
Where Muslims are hunted because
Some suicidal men decided they didn't like
Our arrogant bid for modern imperialism.

This is the Land of the Free ...
You drive by a car whose
Bumper screams
God bless America!
Well, you can scratch out the B
And make it Godless
Because God left this country a long time ago.

The founding fathers made this nation
On a dream and now
Freedom of Speech
Lets Nazis burn crosses, but
Calls police to
Gay pride parades.

We somehow
Can afford war with Iraq
But we can't afford to pay the teachers
Who educate the young who hold the guns
Against the "Axis of Evil"

Land of the Free ...
This is the land
If you're politically assertive
They call you a traitor and
Damn you to ostracism.

Say good-bye to Johnny Walker Lindh
And his family.
Bye Bye.
American Pie.

So maybe
My ideas about this nation
Don't resolve around perfection
But at least I know
Education is more important
Than money.

Land of the Free . . .
If this was utopia
We'd have to see each other naked
Before we got married
But instead, we see each other naked all the time
Because the government has my social security number
And the name of my dog!

And then we make babies,
But don't worry, they won't be left behind
And they grow up saying
God bless America!

But they don't know who Bush is
Because they never learned the Presidents.
And they will ride the ship Amistad
To our dreamland shores
Bearing the same shackles as us.
I'm here to say that
Generation X
Is pissed and we are taking over,
Ripping down the American illusion of perfection

We are the future generation
I have my qualifications
I know it looks like Angel Soft paper,
But don't worry
It's a diploma
Do I look qualified?

You can take our toilet paper,
But you can't take our Revolution.

Why unpatriotic? Isn't it patriotic to try to alter the things you feel are wrong with your country?

Unpatriotic? Bull. It is a poem about the things wrong in the country. Is it unpatriotic to point out the things the writer pointed out because they are going wrong in this country?
It takes more gutts to stand up for what you believe in than to give in to the majority, be called a traitor and so forth. Last I checked the first ammendment wasn't revoked yet.......

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I wouldn´t call it unpatriotic. I wouldn´t even call it poetry, so good were the rhymes!


I call them fighting words. Sounds more like a punk song, with a left wing message.
The only people who would think these words were unpatriotic are those targeted by them. Namelly the Bush admin. Everything that criticizes Bush´s policies gets labeled as unpatriotic, a nice little propaganda scheme!
The funny thing is, that same thing happened during the nazi years in Germany. Any dissent was labeled unpatriotic and voted to ostracism. Anyone founded badmouthing Hitler would get a get-in-to-jail free card, don´t pass GO, and don´t colect 200! Same thing here, only the prisons are bether looking and the penalties are less "physical". Like not being able to find a job anywhere, no bank will grant you loans, the IRS is on your case all the time, police arrassment, ridiculed in public, etc etc. May not be a prison with walls and bars on the windows, but it´s a jail nonetheless.
:rolleyes:

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"Quincitilius Varus, give me back my legions!"
Emperor Augustus of Rome.

A very fitting quote....

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."
Theodore Roosevelt

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel - Samuel Johnson

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." ---Theodore Roosevelt