Our faith in government, once based on trust
Has now irrevocably turned to rust.
Oh yes, there are a few whose loyalty us is true.
But countless others felt the need
To attach themselves to corporate greed.
You think the president calls the shots?
Then it’s you who don’t connect the dots.
The corporate elite, that one percent
Have directed all the laws to be bent
In their favor, against us all,
Who, in their view, should be made to crawl.
Some kids, they now say, are now illegal
And must be chased by a trained beagle.
Yet all of us are really human
Except perhaps for Harry Truman
Who authorized those awful bombs
To fall on old folks, kids, and moms
Who had nothing at all to do with war
Yet paid the price to even the score.
Today as well, his kind survive
To make pesticides that kill the hives
Of our friends the friendly bees
And devastate majestic trees.
I could go on with this tirade
Concerning all the crimes they made:
The false flag events that place the blame
On others, that they wrongly claim
So many times to promote their wars.
Instead, they could have opened doors
To honor, truth, justice, and peace
And from misery deliver true release.
So now it is our turn to find a way
To liberate ourselves and make them pay
For all the devastation they have done.
Shall we count them all, one by one?
Shattered economy, wars, and bankrupt folk,
To them it seems some kind of joke.
So now what is it that we must do
To free ourselves from their sticky glue
That binds us to their exploitation
Of us and Nature’s great creation?
I have some answers and so do you.
Together we can see this through,
Taking inspiration from words so true.
Legitimate government for me and you
Is consent of us, the governed,
Whether red, green, white, or blue
Any trust we once had
And to say it is so very sad,
Has all been vaporized like those
Whose lives were taken far away
On that unspeakable and horrid day.
Like the Founding Fathers of before,
It is our turn to discover the core
Of a new say, so precious and bold,
And reject this system cruel and cold.
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About the Author
Jon D. Olsen grew up in Maine and graduated from Lincoln Academy and Bates College, earning a degree in philosophy.
After teaching high school for a year, he was drawn to Hawai’i, attending University of Hawai’i at Manoa in Honolulu, obtaining a Master’s degree, also in philosophy.
The time was the mid-sixties, when the Vietnam War was raging. He took an active role in opposing that unjust and aggressive war and was a founding member there of Students for a Democratic Society and Draft Resistance, along with a short-lived Peace and Freedom Party. Twenty years later he was a founding member of the Hawai’i Green Party.
He met a newly arrived Filipina immigrant woman, Lilia, while working in the local tuna cannery. They married in 1981 and together have two adult children.
Jon was drawn to various anti-imperial efforts, including gradually, the Hawaiian effort to regain full effective sovereignty, paying close attention to Hawaiian activists who had deep knowledge of the subject matter.
Upon returning to his Maine homestead in 2001 as his father was then turning 90, Jon brought with him books and documents pertaining to the matter of Hawaiian sovereignty, which then became the basis of Liberate Hawai’i! Renouncing and Defying the Continuing Fraudulent U.S. claim to the Sovereignty of Hawai’i. He quickly joined the Maine Green Independent Party, serving twice on the state committee and currently (2017) serves as co-chair. He does some low level organic gardening as well.
Jon can be reaced at jollyoka@gmail.com.
