The following is a poem written by a friend of mine. I thought it was excellent, and he has graciously given me permission to repost it here.HOW FREE ARE WE
Freedom or tolerance five of them here for us assembly, speech, press, religion the right to petition the government we really aren't totally free simply tolerated by what we call freedom The freedom to assemble yes we can do this with a permit of course or at our own risk Then there's that speech we can say all as we want long as we don't incite violence or behind bars they may haunt The freedom of press what a joke that that is as editors won't publish if your opinion's not his That freedom to worship well that's guaranteed only not by our society if you ain't drinkin' what they feed That thing called petition redressing grievance we use only puts it back in the hands of the ones who abuse So are we free or just tolerated it's for each one of us to measure I guess it comes down to just what we do treasure We'll always be subject to the rules and laws of some others trust me, it won't be so bad if we would treat all like brothers written by Brian McLaughlin
