While you were sleeping

While you were sleeping, you lost something very basic, precious,
essential to your identity, your health, your freedom, liberty, your
future, and the future of those around you. And you didn’t even know it.
Neither did i.

The Bill of Rights is something I learned about when I had buck teeth and
a bowl cut.
I wore whatever clothes my mom told me to wear, and I was most concerned
about what cartoons I would get to watch that afternoon, maybe stopping to
complain that I didn’t get any sugar cereals or candy bars like the other
kids. I was a little upstart, but I didn’t have many battles to fight, or
to win.

I can honestly say I do not know the Bill of Rights word for word (sad,
right? …but typical)..i know it says something about me having the
irrevocable RIGHTS to certain things like life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness. Unless I am mistaken that includes freedom of speech, freedom
of religion & thought, right to a fair and speedy trial. Aw, fuck it, im
just going to look it up. Lets see…., ok. I googled it, and you can read
it here:

usinfo.state.gov/usa/infou...illeng.htm

but yeah, all kinds of nice things… I am protected against illegal search
and seizure, essentially it is a power balance to ensure that nobody like
Bu$h or Cheney or Nixon comes along and tries to monkey around with your
rights behind your back.

Well now it seems George W. Bu$h, who I now feel obligated to refer to
with utmost respect and due adoration, as His Eternal Highness and
All-Good King (HEHAGK for short, all due respect, sir) has passed some
‘executive orders’ (aka he says it, so it is now just law, despite the
fact that maybe it breaks another law, or nullifies the constitution, or
cripples the bill of rights, or endangers your life or freedom….not that
there is anything wrong with that, your Holiness) and one of them quite
recently.


www.whitehouse.gov/news/rel...17-3.html

essentially it removes your freedom of speech or freedom expression
and makes it illegal and SEVERELY PUNISHABLE to speak out against the War
on Iraq. It seems to be setting things up quite nicely for martial law to
be exacted at a moments notice.

Here is a good lay(wo)man’s summary:

www.globalresearch.ca/index.php

so yeah, while you were sleeping, or in line to buy that new iPhone, or
trampling people to be one of the first 8.5 million people to buy the new
Harry Potter book, or tilting your ballcap slightly sideways, or adjusting
your shades, or fixing that nice costume you got on, or making art, or
praying for the world, or passing along links, or blogging, ... while i
was DJing somewhere, concerned with phat basslines dropping, or while I
was on my first week of vacation in 6 months, swimming in a river, or
playing on my computer, or while you were kissing your girlfriend, or
talking funny gossip, or chatting away at some fabulous party, planning
your trip to Burningman, …all good things. While this was happening, your
rights were being attacked, and NOW they are gone.

And you didn’t hear about it, and the press is not reporting about it.
Have a gander at the front pages of any of the mainstream newspapers over
the past week. Lots of crucial stuff huh? Like that new soccer player who
moved here from London. Oh boy! Or maybe that story about Tammy Faye
whoever – wife of Evangelisto Corrupto, who died and was remembered. Or
maybe a puff piece on Hillary Clinton. Or something stupid about HEHAGK’s
strategy needing more time in Iraq…or so-and-so who murdered his white
wife, or what’s-her-name who got abducted and caught on tape but its
really interesting because her dad was an ex-marine and NASCAR driver, or
something.

Anyhow, while HEHAGK was looking out for our safety and passing this new
exuctive order to silence dissenters of his War… I didn’t hear about it.
Not much any way. And when I thought about it, I shivered at how little
there was to do about it.

Well, I texted some friends and got some links, did a wee bit of
research, went to us.gov and found my representatives, senators,
congresspeople… wrote emails and called, asked for some answers… like:


“hey why did I just loose valuable civil rights under your watch? And why
have I not heard anything about it. I am scared now, because I understand
it is officially illegal for me to voice my opinions.”

Barbara Boxer’s office said that she has not yet prepared a statement, and
that was supposed to end the conversation or something. I was like… “ahh
buddy, no. I am asking WHY she has not submitted a statement. AT LEAST.”

Like why is Pelosi not up in arms??!

If I was the head of the Democrats, some supposed liberal from San Fran,
you know what I would do.

I would go on Larry King Live. I would kick and scream until I got on. Now
that it is ILLEGAL to speak out against the war, now that they can seize
my assets, arrest me without reason or notification or lawyer, and hold me
indefinitely as an enemy combatant, I would speak VERY carefully on the
air about HEHAGK and his plan, giving him all due respect and praise,
careful not to critique him, but wanting to merely INFORM my constituents
that new laws are now in place. Laws that have been in place since back
when they had bowl cuts, and pegged their trousers, and wanted to be an
astronaut – gone. It is proper to at least inform (warn) them, isn’t it?
Wouldn’t that be polite of Pelosi to have warned us of this?

There is no harm in that, right?

But she hasn’t. If I was her, I would get my ass on the news,

I would look straight in the camera and ask the viewers to put down their
Bud Lights and Starbucks and iPhones for 3 minutes and to understand that
His Utmost Holy and Never-Wrong King of All Anything, GWBu$h, has decreed
a new decree. Hear Ye, Hear Ye.
HEHAGK has decided that because of the utmost and most extreme threat of
war, in such a dark and desperate time…wait, can you please set your
iPhone down? Im still talking. Yes where was i…o yeah, so in this most
imminent and DEEPLY threatening moment of despair in such a grievous war,
since all of our bodies are within seconds of extreme attack from
terrorism, HEHAGK decided to suspend some of our rights (like the right to
criticize him, and why shouldn’t he, because as such a crucial moment, a
critique might slow down his ability to protect us and stifle his ability
to fight terrorism) and as your representative and head of congress, I
just wanted to come on here (thank you Larry) and let you know, so that
you are not so foolish as to speak out against this. Do Not Fear. He only
did it to protect you, so you would LEAVE HIM ALONE and let him do his job
defending this wonderful country. You should trust him, because HE is the
Decider, right? Even though HEHAGK has kind of a bad track record in his
administration, with a long list of deceit and many instances of officials
who he has appointed have been proven guilty or HEINOUSLY unqualified to
do their job (DeLay, Foley, Brownie, Scooter Libby, Gonzales, Scalia all
that stuff…)… yes despite the fact that there is really no exact reason
for us to trust him because he has broken our trust at almost every chance
he gets, THERE IS NOTHING WRONG with trusting him another time.

Let’s all just assume he doesn’t know this is unconstitutional. That’s
right, I am asking you, viewer, to ignore the fact that your rights have
just been violated and removed, because I am assuming HEHAGK didn’t know
what he was doing. It was an honest mistake, and I just wanted to come on
here, live on CNN TV, and make sure that the press was up to speed on the
fact that you cannot critique the Iraq War now without being indefinitely
detained in secret prisons, having your assets frozen, or worse.

That is all.”


Imagine if she did that.

Or if ANYONE did that, or if EVERYONE did that… and preferably much more
eleoquently than i. Bassnectar on CNN? Not gonna happen. And probably for
good reason, because I cannot even TYPE this shit very well, much less
speak it. I don’t wear that costume you have to wear to let people know
you are official and trustworthy…what is it again? A suit and tie?


Because I am not an elected official. I am a musician, an artist. I am
doing my best here, but I am not the ideal person for the job. But I
cannot stand by as His Holiness and Utmost Flawless Wonderful Kind and God
Bu$h prepares to declare martial law and sets that up systematically under
the strategy of neo-conservatives who brought you stolen elections, the
war in iraq, 911, Murdoch-news like FOX, and have essentially turned what
might have been a nice environment for raising kids and families, and
bettering our country and our neighbor’s countries, and caring for the
environment and enjoying sunshine and music….godamn difficult.

Go back to sleep now.