Red Letter Year - April 18th, 2007

I'm sick of the media's coverage of Virginia Tech.

I hate the distortions, I hate how the media is causing people to "give a damn" and I really hate how Bush went to the school and gave his condolences to the innocent victims...

when he is directly responsible for the murder of millions (yep, it's got that high) innocent people throughout the world in the last 6 years.

I guess when the murders occur on US soil they are worth more. I don't see this much coverage when someone overseas dies or is murdered.

Just trying to put things in perspective people.


32 Lives
(I wrote this last night, it's going in my book!)

i picked a fine time
to turn on my t.v.
watching a college boy
on his misguided spree
cnn, fox and abc
tell the nation to fall to it's knees
commercially interrupted cries
of the sanitized "oh say can you see?"

warm tears roll down
selected priviledged white faces
while jackson and sharpton
await rainbow coalition debates about races
32 lives
are turned into sob story cases
as the value of an american life
is a story my t.v. chases

while hundreds of thousands are
killed in iraq (pronounce it correctly people)
but government sanctioned murder
gets easily forgot when the media moguls convince us
that we care not if non-white
christian innocents are slaughtered and shot

they say our cell phones
are causing bumble bees to die
yet according to our science
they shouldn't even be able to fly
if they can't explain nature
they give up and sing "we tried"
turn attentions to writing fiction books
about holy "men" in the sky

am i the only american left that
is proud to be here?
to get the priveledge to pay taxes
and not equate freedom
with guns and beer?
is more than happy to get involved
when impending doom whispers in my ear?
that equates bringing back the wolves
as the alternative to gunning down deer?

now my t.v. speaks lies and half hearted truths
in my room, in the dark
while jay leno quipps
about some stupid new theme park
it becomes increasingly clear to me
that they all missed the makr
that they've become a sitcom
that long ago jumped the shark

32 lives converted to currency
that's worth more on US land
and how dare we be subjected to condolences
from the chief man in command
who has killed so many innocents
with his very own hands

no, wait
those are 18 year old kids
who were conned into thinking
they were giving freedom
room to stand