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Written by Alan Scholl   
Tuesday, 19 January 2010 17:05
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Since They Can't Argue With The Message, They Shoot The Messengers...

Benjamin Franklin wrote his own epitaph:
"THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer
Like the cover of an old book,
Its contents torn out,
And stripped of its lettering and gilding
Lies here, food for worms;
Yet the work itself shall not be lost,
For it will (as he believed) appear once more,
In a new,
And more beautiful edition,
Corrected and amended
By the AUTHOR"

Were I that clever, I would write something this pithy and self-effacing, referencing my faith on my headstone, a fitting place for posterity to give me my due for being right about many things, and aligned with truth and justice.

But those in vogue and in power today care little for truth, and less for the truthful. Like the child that is sorry for being caught, not for being guilty, they attack like Piranha, anyone who points out their errors.

I'm not special, the emperor is plainly naked. Unless you are asleep, have absorbed the government "education" and brainwashing, or have a vested interest in promoting immoral behavior, or socialism for personal benefit, it's easy to see and point out.

I suppose for someone with as few accomplishments as I, being self-effacing is easy, oxymoronic in fact, as there is little to minimize. So why can't most people see what is happening all around them?

They have a vested interest. That tax break, that freebie, that sin they enjoy and which is smiled upon by the society and government today.

The one thing I think I would - and deserve - to claim as an epitaph is that I've spent much of my life trying to see what is right, and then do right. I've often failed, am myself a sometime rebel and oft-time sinner, but I do keep striving to improve, and to stay on that course of right, or at least climb back on when I fall off.

 

 



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