TAKING UP THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN

                         HE WAS GOOD ENOUGH TO FIGHT THE VIET CONG AT AGE 18 FOR HIS COUNTRY.  HE HAD TO TELL HIS MEN TO GIVE COVER SO THAT THE US SOLDIERS WOULDN'T BE KILLED.  ONE FELLOW COWERED IN A CORNER FRIGHTENED.  HE TOLD HIM TO FIGHT YOU BABY.  THEY'RE GONNA DIE.
                         HE'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH TO WALK THE STREETS OF HIS COUNTRY WITHOUT GLARING EYES ON HIM.  HE'S THIS.  HE'S THAT.  I PREFER NOT TO RENT TO THEM.  THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD.  HE TOLD THEM:  I FOUGHT FOR YOU.  I SHOULD HAVE LET YOU DIE.
                        I HAVE A RIGHT TO LIVE HERE,BE PRESIDENT OR ANYTHING ELSE YOU REDNECKS THINK BELONGS ONLY FOR YOU.  I WAS 18 AND DODGED BULLETS IN VIET NAM FOR Y OUR FREEDOM.    I SHOULD HAVE LET YOU DIE.
                          YOU ARE NOT BETTER THAN ME.  I FOUGHT FOR YOU.  WHOSE THE COWARD HERE?  YOU WHO HIDES BEHIND YOUR WHITE SUPERIORITY BELITTLING ME?   OR ME -THE MAN WHO DIDN'T LET YOU DIE.
                           I FOUGHT FOR YOU AND ME.  I FOUGHT.  WHAT HAVE YOU DONE COWARD BESIDES SPEW PREJUDICE ABOUT PEOPLE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW?  I FOUGHT FOR YOU.  HOW ABOUT A LITTLE RESPECT?  THANKS? HONOR? 
                           WHY ARE YOU AFRAID OF ME?  I FOUGHT FOR YOU.  I WASN'T AFRAID.  I DID WHAT HAD TO BE DONE.  MY BLOOD IS RED JUST LIKE YOURS.  I DIDN'T SAY THEY'RE NO GOOD .  I WON'T HELP THEM.  HOW DO YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO SPOUT THAT RACIST DRIVEL?  BOY?

HOME OF THE BRAVE-OTHERS NEED NOT APPLY

                                 THE ANSWER IS BLOWING IN THE WIND

FREEDOM

           FREEDOM IS JUST ANOTHER NAME FOR NOTHING ELSE TO DO

            BUT YOU AIN'T NOTHING

            IF YOU AIN'T FREE

I finished Freedom by Jonathan Franzen-all 562 pages.  It took me all weekend.  I had to read it.  It cost me $28.  It was the perfect Sepotember 11th weekend reading material.   Also it was excellent for a vehemently anti-Cape Wind Cape Cod citizen.  Most excellent.  But it did not change my viewpoint on the industrialization of Cape Cod waters by Cape Wind.

       You don't need to read Freedom to know the coal industry is corrupt  about the environment and their workers.  You just have to see the miners stuck for months 2000 feet below ground in Chile to know the evils of mining.  How Green Was My Valley let us know.  We all cried.  We've cried for years over the West Virginia miners in Appalachia.

        It's all far removed from us.  We just turn up the heat in the winter and the air conditioner in the summer.  Cape Wind and The Gulf Oil Well Disaster bring it right to our beaches.  We can't put our head in the sand and deny the mess energy production makes of the world.  We can ask them to put Clean Energy where we can't see it not on our beaches or waterways. 

        So the same hot shots who decimate West Virginia and the Gulf of Mexico now want to ruin Nantucket Sound.  Put those wind turbines elsewhere not in the only part of Cape Cod without a monument to MAN'S greed and self interest. 

             Put Wind Turbines on the polluted lands of America not in our ocean playground.