The freedoms cut off
taking them away
shooting them in the street
driving them into fear
Killing their speech
the freedoms we enjoy
keeping them hidden
locked safely away
The people subjugated
under his thumb
repressed by the madman
under the yoke of the gun
March 6, 2011
All of the North Africa and Middle East coverage
versus the freedoms we share
such as our town’s School District Meeting
http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/244046/new-teacher-contract-budget-approved?page=0,0
March 5, 2011
raised as a prayer concern at church
http://www.suncookumc.org
Suncook United Methodist Church
Suncook, NH
March 6, 2011
Last Sunday after Epiphany
Transfiguration Sunday
&
“Moammar Gadhafi’s son speaks with CNN”
http://bit.ly/eZObIw
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Saif-al-Islam-al-Gaddafi/10917256698
Tweets by SaifGaddafi
Saif al-Islam al-Gaddafi
Tweets by NicRobertsonCNN
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nic-Robertson-CNN-Fan-Page/64870076458?ref=share
Nic Robertson
&
one of the all-time
great pictures, capturing evil, before it rose up to full flowering http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/icon02.htm,
of Joseph Goebbels, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels,
on display at The Granary Gallery on Martha’s Vineyard
(http://www.granarygallery.com/),
taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 – 1995),
http://artquarterly.com/artist.cfm?ID=16,
a master of black and white. Photojournalist of the century, http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue9911/eisieintro.htm.
&
Tweet about nighttime abductions in Tajoura district of Tripoli
http://alive.in/libya/2011/03/04/pro-government-attacking-houses-at-night-speak2tweet/
massacre in Zawiya
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/03/04/libya.conflict/index.html?hpt=T1
March 4, 2011
&
firing of tear gas on people coming out of prayers
in Tajoura neighborhood of Tripoli
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8362590/Police-fire-tear-gas-on-Tripoli-protest.html
March 4, 2011
&
the coming of a Friday day of prayers, which have been the days
of the largest protests in many of the countries in revolt
March 4, 2011
&
The ludicrous statements of Moammar Gaddafi
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/28/libya.protests/index.html?hpt=T1
February 28, 2011
The coverage of the sons of Muammar Qadhafi
with Christiane Amanpour
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/world_news&id=7983698
February 27, 2011
&
seeing the genocide in Libya
and hearing the rabbling of Gadhafi
http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/02/22/bts.gadhafi.statement.libyanstate
2/22/2011
&
on the transformations since the beginning of January –
all the protests in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Oman,
Jordan, Iran, Iraq, Palestinian Territories, Djibouti, Mauritania, Senegal, etc.
and
especially the resignation of Hosni Mubarak
February 11, 2011
&
and the jubilance in Tahrir Square
versus the bloodshed in Bahrain and Libya, etc.
February 18, 2011
&
hearing claim by President Obama 2/15/2011
in a news conference that when history books tell it
we will be seen as being on the right side of history
in how the United States responded
&
Post on Twitter by Wael Ghonim
Tweets by Ghonim
“Our Revolution was like Wikipedia”
Our Revolution was like Wikipedia: http://bit.ly/gHG0gT
— Wael Ghonim 🦅 (@Ghonim) February 15, 2011
http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/ghonim-our-revolution-wikipedia
February 14, 2011
&
Post on Twitter by Wael Ghonim
Tweets by Ghonim
“This is Revolution 2.0: No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.”
This is Revolution 2.0: No one was a hero because everyone was a hero. #Jan25
— Wael Ghonim 🦅 (@Ghonim) February 13, 2011
February 13, 2011
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