Friday, December 02, 2005

Help Free Aung San Suu Kyi ~

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"Years ago, I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth.... While there is a lower class, I am in it, while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
~ Eugene V.
Debs

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Pages ~
http://www.dassk.org/index.php
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Poem ~ In The Quiet Land

By Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

In the Quiet Land, no one can tell
if there's someone who's listening
for secrets they can sell.

The informers are paid in the blood of the land
and no one dares speak what the tyrants won't stand.

In the quiet land of Burma,
no one laughs and no one thinks out loud.

In the quiet land of Burma,
you can hear it in the silence of the crowd

In the Quiet Land, no one can say
when the soldiers are coming
to carry them away.

The Chinese want a road; the French want the oil;
the Thais take the timber; and SLORC takes the spoils...
In the Quiet Land....

In the Quiet Land, no one can hear
what is silenced by murder
and covered up with fear.

But, despite what is forced, freedom's a sound
that liars can't fake and no shouting can drown.
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