{"id":764,"date":"2005-01-24T10:57:28","date_gmt":"2005-01-24T17:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=764"},"modified":"2005-01-24T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2005-01-24T17:57:28","slug":"freedom-is-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/01\/24\/freedom-is-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom is Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Negativeland<\/a> had it right:<\/p>\n

Our fathers which heart in heaven
\n[Humble words]
\nWe shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight the hills, we shall never surrender.
\n[Trenchant words]
\nGive me liberty. Give me liberty, or give me death.
\n[Thundering words] <\/p>\n

The strongest word
\nPersuasive words
\nThe strongest word
\nExpressive words
\nThe strongest word
\nInspirational words <\/p>\n

The strongest word
\n…is still the word ‘free’. <\/p>\n

Grateful words
\nfree free free free…
\nEnlightened words,
\nHuman words.
\nThe word ‘free’
\nThe strongest word,
\nis still the word ‘free’ <\/p>\n

Men have lived for words
\n(Holocaust, Hysteria)
\nHeavy words
\nMen have died for words
\nPointed words
\nCities have fallen for words
\nFreedom’s waiting… <\/p>\n

Free… <\/p>\n

The right words
\n(Iraq, Inflammable)
\nThe right words
\n(Islam, Insidious)
\nThe right words, said Lenin,
\nare worth a hundred ligaments
\n(Impugn, Infamous, Koran) <\/p>\n

??? words. <\/p>\n

You can say four blunt words,
\nand a man will hit you in the face.
\nWords.
\nFreedom’s waiting…
\n(Israelic??? words) <\/p>\n

Words…
\nSturdy. Implacable. Cram. Sarcastic.
\nCapable. Irreconcilable.
\nA little deluge of adjectives.
\nThe strongest word is still the word ‘free’.
\n(Impact, Profitability)
\nNext to the word ‘free’, the best word is ‘new’.
\n(Persuasive words)
\n…the best word is ‘new’. <\/p>\n

At your seven-eleven,
\nFreedom’s waiting
\nFor you. <\/p>\n

Other tasty words are: ‘Mistakes’, ‘Stop’,
\n‘At last’, and ‘Don’t’.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

<\/a>
\nTo paraphrase Bush’s speech: (ahem) “Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom […] Freedom.”<\/p>\n

……<\/p>\n

George Bush the Better<\/a> says this:<\/p>\n

“People want to read a lot into it–that this means new aggression or newly assertive military forces,” said former President George H.W. Bush during an informal visit to the White House briefing room. “That’s not what that speech is about. It’s about freedom.”<\/i><\/p>\n

There you go. The speech was about freedom. Nothing more. Nothing less.<\/p>\n

Remember when Kennedy said “we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship…” I do have a response to that: Er… No we won’t.<\/i> We’ll pay some price, we’ll bear some burden, we’ll meet some hardship… I guess we’ll act in self-destructive manners at times, but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Negativeland had it right: Our fathers which heart in heaven [Humble words] We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight the hills, we shall never surrender. [Trenchant words] Give me liberty. Give me liberty, or give me death. [Thundering words] The strongest word Persuasive words The strongest word Expressive words The strongest word Inspirational […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}