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Fighting For Democracy
President Bush, your allies the Red Chinese are banning the word democracy on the internet. Your friends are treating the word as an obscene word, the word that you used as a reason to go to war. I imagine Democrats will have the same honor and billions of Chinese will not be able to learn about America because of one word, democracy. I wonder what they will say, to their people, about the reason for the Iraq war. Mr. President what does it take to get an answer from a commoner. “What the heck are we fighting for in Iraq?” If you say Democracy, then does that mean, we are against Red China, if they ban the words that the blood of Americans are fighting for? Will you stand up and say America will never be a part of censorship and denial of any religious rights by any civilized country? If your religious believes are strong, you must stand to face the nation. Will your Corporate Allies stand by you in red, white, and blue, flying a flag of independence, or wear business suits of creative monetary green value. My wish is that I could be in Washington, waving the flag on the 4th of July. (Just a poetic dream.) A flag that moderates between conservatives and liberals joined hand in hand in a true Democracy to show Red China its mass of Democratic and Republican pride. I want to see politicians as civilians for one day, feeling the real streets as commoners; the President can stay in our mansion.
This could be the start of things, like those extreme conservatives down south, who want to ban gay books in public libraries in the United States. Red China is also banning other words like freedom, human rights, Taiwan independence, and demonstration. I am sure words like, religion, Baptists, Catholic, evangelical, missionaries, will soon follow. They are already putting people in detention for religious internet use. I wonder if they get there day in court or are treated like terrorists and use our example of Guantanamo. I wonder if they are allowed to have Bibles in their jails or are they destroyed by burning them. The sad fact is some disappear in detention. over fifty have at present, (ten others have died in detention) without any public knowledge, some never heard of again. The same thing may happen to our prisoners, if no organization supports them and never counts them. Amnesty International and an independent Red Cross do help stop abuses, for they fight for those imprisoned for things like being a Christian terrorist.
America the great, paying homage to Red China because of monetary corporate concerns that could care less about defending words like democracy, religion, and human rights, as long as the American CEO’s get their payday. Yes Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo show your colors. The almighty dollar makes its own laws and understandings. Things like Wal-Mart allowing Chinese unions but denying American worker union rights, because of Chinese government pressure. The Chinese government can dictates to our corporations, but where is the equality in being American? Are we building Red China up, so we can turn America over to them like a Hong Kong? Do we fight for democracy, only to later surrender it like we did in Vietnam, by complying with China's stringent religious, human right, Internet rules?
The Global Internet Freedom Act, which in July 2003 was passed by the US House of Representatives, aimed to prevent online censorship by the government of the world. Now Microsoft is violating the principles of this act, along with Yahoo, and Google. But the giant Microsoft, the international technical company, is helping the Chinese bypass it. Is this the first blow to the total censorship of the net? So what will President Bush do? Will he treat it like a Geneva Convention and say it does not apply to Microsoft and Red China by executive privilege, or should Congress and a President stand for the American word of Democracy (truly international except to some in Communist countries) like Microsoft will not.
In magic, we pray for things, in signs we are heard. Writing to me is not about money, it is about a country combining in an uncensored world. For once we start banning words, we start ending the freedom of self-expression. I rather die with fighting words that with words spoken for me. But who am I but one grain on a beach floating free, to never be cemented in one position, hoping that forces greater than me, never imprison my wandering.
Democracy Of Mind
My freedom was clipped from its independent flight.
My legs were shackled bruised upon scared flesh.
My fingers were amputated still holding a pencil.
They made my name disappear like WMD’s.
Terminated for convenience. Imprisoned in isolation
But surviving inside the democracy of mind
Of freedom of inner speech. breathing inside a place
Nobody can claim as theirs but Democracy.
D.Lester 06/13/05 © Terminated poet of Americas freedom of speech, Somewhere in America not on company time upon a Crossfire ride.
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