DYING LIBERTY, by Mary Neal
a 21st Century Slave Song (all rights reserved)
Rights you declare are over now
Beginning with sick folks
We arrest and kill who we want
The Bill of Rights' a joke
When it comes to certain Americans
The Constitution's dead
Especially for the black and poor
Get that fact through your head
Damn the Freedom of Information Act
An act is all it is
We answer only what we choose
Which is zero for Larry Neal
We have a terrific asset
In the Johnnie Cochran Firm
Cointelpro lawyers from coast to coast
Many secrets they do learn
Lawyers can hold down settlements
And eliminate a few
When policemen kill minorities
That is what they do
In Nazi Germany, the mentally ill
Were the first to go
It still seems a good starting place
Any reason to change it? No
We've started with the least
And will work up the social chain
We hesitate during election time
Then resume again
When the camps are ready
Everyone will know our plan
Until they're built and fully staffed
Can't let you tip our hand
So we remove your emails
And prevent you loading your films
Americans who learn what we did to Larry
Preview our plans for them
We take over your computers
And hack your telephones
To limit the number of people you tell
Their civil rights are gone
Civil rights are gone.
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Update January 11, 2015 - This poem was published years before NDAA was introduced, which allows American citizens to be placed in concentration camps without criminal charges or any opportunity for trials. "Dying Liberty" was written before ignoring the Sixth Amendment to do extrajudicial assassinations against Americans was legal. I could see by the secret arrest and murder of my mentally, physically disabled brother, Larry Neal, and the denial of due process of law his death engendered that civil rights were disregarded for him and his family. I knew it would only be a short while before fascism spread. Sorry to say I told you so. At this date, gross civil and human rights abuses are still limited primarily to people of color and the nation's homeless and mentally ill population, but fascism is spreading fast.
References in eight(8) links
Mary Neal's website - Wrongful Death of Larry Nealhttp://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/main.html
Nazi Extermination of the Mentally Ill in Germany and USA
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/nazi-extermination-of-mentally-disabled.html
USDOJ and Bureau of Prisons Refuse to Answer FOIA re Larry Neal's Murder Cover-up
http://www.nowpublic.com/health/foi-request-usdoj-re-larry-neal-and-cochran-firm-fraud
Dog Justice for Mentally Ill
http://DogJusticeforMentallyIll.blogspot.com
Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
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