Travel Log 3-31: There's Something Happening Here...

   Now you all know I'm shy and retiring when it comes to political issues *snort*, but I felt the need to comment on something here.
    If you haven't checked out Harvard's Folly  or Mrs. B's event then you need to. Many of us, me often included, think that the burning times are over and it's just all about getting into the world religion knitting circle now. Well that is not true. There are still angry terrified idiots out there, and there are still poor innocents being loaded onto the pyre.
     And truthfully those of us who are in a position to do something about it are being woefully silent. I honestly think this is because we are under the impression that here, in the US, we are safe. Our rights are protected and we can scoff at the small minded idiots and get on with living our lives. That is not, in fact, true. In our country we get only the right we defend. Every time we skip an election because it's just one of the "small ones", or we think that something is horrible and something should be done about it and then turn back to the casserole and put it out of our minds those rights get erroded little by little. The window gets opened to the extremists and bigots, then they jimmy the lock on the door to let all their crazier friends to come join the party.
    Which has lead me to a song that has been increasingly playing in my head since I read that article about what's happening at Harvard- in Massachusetts, here in the USA.
     I may have been raised in the 80's-90's, but I've always lived more in the 60's-70's. So here's the song that I think sums up how I feel about all of this...
          There's something happening here
            What it is ain't exactly clear
          There's a man with a gun over there
             Telling me I got to beware

          I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
             Everybody look what's going down

         There's battle lines being drawn
             Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
         Young people speaking their minds
             Getting so much resistance from behind

         I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
             Everybody look what's going down
        What a field-day for the heat
             A thousand people in the street
        Singing songs and carrying signs
            Mostly say, hooray for our side

         It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
            Everybody look what's going down

        Paranoia strikes deep
            Into your life it will creep
        It starts when you're always afraid
           You step out of line, the man come and take you away

        We better stop, hey, what's that sound
            Everybody look what's going down
        Stop, hey, what's that sound
            Everybody look what's going down
        Stop, now, what's that sound
           Everybody look what's going down
        Stop, children, what's that sound
           Everybody look what's going down