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A Farewell to Freedom!

A Farewell to Freedom - By D. Ben Edsall©

"God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her."
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Chapter 14

Freedom; God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her, but she was so fair, so graceful, so elegant. Her dazzling beauty shown against the morning sun as a star spangled banner hovered o'er the mist of battles won.

With torch she stands and lights the way to freedoms western shore, yearning masses still seeking her, the tired and the poor.

Upon the golden door she shines a glimmering of hope, yet past the shore the twinkling dims as freedoms are abhorred!

Not free to smoke a cigarette, not free to have a gun. Not free to have my own doctor, but now appointed one.

Not free to seek my own success, but taxed for having some. Not free to drive my SUV but sneered at like I'm scum.

First they came for them for life, then they denied the Son. Then they came for the ten commands, replacing them with none.

They took away my Chlordane, my Freon and the sun, they tell me that its bad for me and it'll burn your skin my son.

"the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but (only) one."
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Chapter 21

So stand I will on principle with my Bible and my gun, they'll take the rest away from me but of these they will have none!

"it is now hard to leave the country but it is in no way impossible."
- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Chapter 33

But where the hell do you go?

When the time comes to bury your guns.... It's time to dig them up!

D. Ben Edsall
Cowboy Poet
Broker - ARM, AEREP
Turn-Key Properties LLC

7312 E 67^th St.
Kansas City, MO 64133
816-313-8876

http://www.turnkeyproperties.org
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Posted by Ben Edsall on 07/28/2009 09:11 AM

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15 Comments on A Farewell to Freedom!

JUL

I like the Hemingway, but you must realize the only constant in life is change. You forgot to mention the biggest change to this country, the slaughtering of the Native Americans and the destruction of their culture and way of life.

YES,Yes... I am going to post a link to this blog in one of mine. I love it. Thanks.....

Thank you friends, Betina... You can keep the change, I'll keep my God and my guns!

Ben,

We will turn this mess around. Mid term elections are next year then just 2 more years of Obama.

[You can keep the change, I'll keep my God and my guns!]

Oh hell yes.

I have had a song in my head about this and now you are making me have to sit down and write it! :)

Candice, I have some Nashville friends in the music biz, if I can help you let me know.

Still not happy about the 09 election I see. Funny, no one is taking away your guns and no one is trying to take away your God nor are they appointing you a doctor, try to be more informed Ben!

I'll bet you think your president was born in Kenya too you poor soul.

Terry recommended your blog post....well worth the look! Love the poem!

I'm personally afraid to own a gun! But I'm a proud member of the NRA and support the right to own them. This is not a contradiction....it's proof of my belief in freedom. We don't have to only support the freedom to do the things WE want to do...but also those things OTHERS want to do.

I love the post. Glad to see some people still believe in freedom, or what we have left of it. :)

I just hope things don't become so screwed up in the next few years that they're beyond repair, but I think we will see a backlash and a turning away from some of this nonsense after the next election.

Where he was born is of no concern, his mother was an American citizen. Not happy; no I'm not happy with the choices we were given. I haven't had anyone to vote FOR since 1984. I'm just sick of having to vote against people.

Great post and thanks for allowing us to repost. Although I truly think Obama thought he could change for the better. I think even he has found Washington is where all the criminals go when they can't go home.

I perdict before long heads in his adminstration will start falling left and right. Some have already but Bernake is on a short plank and when he is let go and he will be, Bernake will tell the tell and be the downfall of Obama.

Someone once said keep your friends close but your enemies closer and he needs to realize that in Bernake. He knows way to much for Obama to let him loose in the streets but I think Obamas team doesn't think so and they will fire him as early as December but diffently before March.

Ben, keep on sounding the alarm. Who knows if the day will come when this kind of speech is censored.

It's coming, he is appointing an Internet Czar to regulate our opinion's online!

http://www.examiner.com/x-11748-Jefferson-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m7d20-Regulatory-Czar-target-internet-for-fairness

Welcome to the New World and The Internet Fairness Doctrine .

Fairness always means fewer liberties!

Ben - I think your poetry is a bit prophetic. Much of what you say has come true, to one extent or another, and the rest is soon to follow, if this administration and congress has it's way.

JUL

Amen brother, well said. See my comments on Mike Saunders blog.

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