by W.L. Spooner III
I hope some future historian will not take
pen in hand, to describe in graphic detail
how AmericanDemocracy once died across
our land.
He would question, as he writes, what event
came first? What happened in our history that
wrote freedom's final verse?
Enemies of the nation were fought since
it was begun, and though the fight was bloody,
each foe was over run.
Disasters spawned by nature had not
brought the nation down. Earthquakes, flash
floods, and hurricanes brought a union
more tightly bound.
So if not the savagery of nature, or the
brutalaty of war, what caused, the once great,
civilized society to vanish from the Earth
to shed it's guidinng light, to be no more?
Careful analysis proved thesimple fact
to be, the down fall came, when the
citizens forgot that Freedom Wasn't Free.
For each freedom in the Bill of Rights, there
was a price to pay, and the citizens decided
they should only have to pay it's price, if
they could pay just their way.
First they rejected the language; they had
one of their own.
Then rejected the country's anthem and
flag, each a symbolic corner stone.
They accepted the Constitution, as long as
it went in favor of them. Yet when the
law went against some ethnic group, "Unfair,
Unjust", they would scream.
The courts were all filled with complaints,
each by oath ready to swear, how the system
treated them unfair.
Yet let those same people, a court verdict
win. They would swear that the same
system was fair as it ever had been.
Slowly a pattern was forming, the story
began to unfold, the story of America's
down fall was as new as it was old.
It is the story of a country divided, proving
once again it can't stand.
Common goals, common symbols, common
language, not dialects from some foreign land.
These were the things which made all
Americans great, and against her enemies
stand.
"It's a shame", he might say in closing,
"as a country it had so much to share"
"It's greatest flaw and main
weakness was not it's people to care."
They cared not for American culture,
history, or folk lore.
They asked much from the government,
but thought jury duty a bore.
They picketed and marched for equal rights,
to things which were unjust and unfair,
but when tax time came around,
they threw their hands into the air.
Holidays were simply a way to spend a
day at home.
Don't try to decorate the courthouse lawn,
you must leave "Public Land" alone.
"So,"he might say in summation,"when
I analyse America's history, the reason
The Great Lady, America died is because
Freedom Never Was Free!"
