Remembrance: The Water Wars Have Begun
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Hunger tied our belliesinto gnawing, burning knots.
Our crops withered in the poisoned earth.
All we could do was watch them rot.
Through our children and the elderly
the sickness ran unimpeded.
The toxin was in the water.
For aid our village pleaded.
The garrison at Strange Hill
refused our imploring hand.
The bribe we could not pay
worth more than child, woman, or man.
We cursed their endless greed
and cried to God to see them fall.
They laughed at our feeble rage,
safe and snug behind their wall.
But on that day our anger
became a living breathing thing,
fed on our desperation
with vengeance as its drink.
And so ten thousand of our living
marched upon Strange Hill that day
with farmers’ tools and wagons
and bony horses for the fray.
In the field the garrison commander
tried to sway us from our path.
His demand for sanity
fell easy victim to our wrath.
He consigned our wretched chances
to a place between slim and none.
We cried, “Better to perish fighting
than the certain death to come!”
We eyed each other for a time
across a field soon soaked with blood
and at the cry of our commanders
with screaming madness rushed
toward the sickening collision
between fates too much the same
to quarrel at the difference
between the rational and the insane.
Heavenly Father, they don’t stand a chance! They’re outnumbered!
They are tired, hungry sacrificial lambs for the corporate forces at Strange Hill.
Without news of the battle, I fear that my love has fallen upon the field of blood.
If you can, I beg you, spare his life, for he is my heart and soul!
And if it is not your will, I pray You, make his passing swift.
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Wetdog
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There were almost 34,000 toxic spill incidents reported last year alone to the National Response Hotline. Each one has an incident report written after investigation. I thought that was too many. So I began reading some incident reports. Of the first 11 I selected at random, 8 involved petroleum released into the evironment endangering life and health, 2 were acid run off from mines, and 1 was a chemical acid spill. None involved less than 1,000 gallons of toxic release.(about 4 tons).
We are constantly assured that our air and water supplies are "safe and within acceptable limits". How much crude oil, diesel fuel or gasoline do you think is acceptable in the glass of water you are about to drink? How much acid run off, lead, arsenic, bismuth or plutonium do you want in your glass of water to be accetable?
40 years ago, if you had gone into a store and asked for bottled drinking water, you'd have been laughed out of the store. Today, bottled water is a $6 Billion a year industry. In every single survey done, the top reason people list for buying bottled water is taste. Government and industry keeps assuring us that our land, water and air are safe and within acceptable limits. Yet people spend $6 Billion dollars per year to drink water out of bottles instead of drinking it for free out of the tap.
Maybe our taste buds are trying to tell us someone is lying to us.
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Wetdog
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regjoeschmo
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A Rock Opera about the crisis we face with our water supply, nothing short of awesome from this group, a sound like no other and a passion unmatched....
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regjoeschmo
