How Come Jesus Gets Industrial Disease?
I took a serious look at how I feel about our military involvement in other parts of the world. A comment made by a friend concerning American soldiers being maimed and killed for absolutely no reason caused me to at least take a mental pause to see if I can fit it into my framework for daily living. Any death is something to be grieved over. I can think of a few exceptions such as the execution of someone for murder or for molesting children. There are some things that deserve the forfeit of your right to breathe. Just ask Saddam Hussein about murder and maiming. Oh yea, he’s been deprived of his right to breathe.
Our troops invaded a country that was harboring terrorists, paying families to make suicide bombers of their children, continually threatened nuclear and biological weapon attacks, and had a long history of violence both inside and outside its borders. Did we find “weapons of mass destruction”? No. Did we prevent someone with a track record of violence from developing them for use on others? Yes. A segment of the US population wants American soldiers out of Iraq. I am okay with that. We have done our job. Of course that runs contrary to past practice for the American government. WWII ended in 1945 and we still have military bases in Germany and Japan. The Korean War ended in 1983 when Hawkeye and BJ left… I mean 1953 and we still have troops along the South Korean border. I say bring them all home. It would be one hell of a cost savings.
The talk of war brought to mind a song by Dire Straits from their Love Over Gold album (yes they were albums back in 1982.) The song is Industrial Disease which is an upbeat tongue and cheek song about the fall of British industrial power, the rise of media influence on how people think, and the use of political finger pointing to assign blame. The last verse has the lyrics of a protest singer included in the lyrics of the song. He is concerned about how the war is affecting people. It must be when Margaret Thatcher sent the British fleet to retake the Falkland Islands. That was a useless war of imperialism but what do I know. They whole verse says:
I go down to Speakers Corner I’m thunderstruck
They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
Two men say they’re Jesus one of them must be wrong
There’s a protest singer singing a protest song - he says
They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to keep their factories
They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease
They’re pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
They wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind
They give you rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three
Two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease
Meanwhile the first Jesus says Id cure it soon
Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons
The other ones on a hunger strike he’s dying by degrees
How come Jesus gets industrial disease
Of course the lines that really sparked my interest are the ones about Jesus. The first is two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong and the other is the last four lines. We have two men claiming to be Jesus and their methods of fixing the world’s problems take two completely different paths. One will perform miracles and get rid of those bothersome days of the week while the other one is slowly starving himself to death. At least the last one is willing to die for something. Alas, we never learn his motivations other than his bout of industrial disease.
ToBeContinued
Icool
Cobb
Our troops invaded a country that was harboring terrorists, paying families to make suicide bombers of their children, continually threatened nuclear and biological weapon attacks, and had a long history of violence both inside and outside its borders. Did we find “weapons of mass destruction”? No. Did we prevent someone with a track record of violence from developing them for use on others? Yes. A segment of the US population wants American soldiers out of Iraq. I am okay with that. We have done our job. Of course that runs contrary to past practice for the American government. WWII ended in 1945 and we still have military bases in Germany and Japan. The Korean War ended in 1983 when Hawkeye and BJ left… I mean 1953 and we still have troops along the South Korean border. I say bring them all home. It would be one hell of a cost savings.
The talk of war brought to mind a song by Dire Straits from their Love Over Gold album (yes they were albums back in 1982.) The song is Industrial Disease which is an upbeat tongue and cheek song about the fall of British industrial power, the rise of media influence on how people think, and the use of political finger pointing to assign blame. The last verse has the lyrics of a protest singer included in the lyrics of the song. He is concerned about how the war is affecting people. It must be when Margaret Thatcher sent the British fleet to retake the Falkland Islands. That was a useless war of imperialism but what do I know. They whole verse says:
I go down to Speakers Corner I’m thunderstruck
They got free speech, tourists, police in trucks
Two men say they’re Jesus one of them must be wrong
There’s a protest singer singing a protest song - he says
They wanna have a war to keep us on our knees
They wanna have a war to keep their factories
They wanna have a war to stop us buying Japanese
They wanna have a war to stop industrial disease
They’re pointing out the enemy to keep you deaf and blind
They wanna sap your energy incarcerate your mind
They give you rule Brittania, gassy beer, page three
Two weeks in Espana and Sunday striptease
Meanwhile the first Jesus says Id cure it soon
Abolish Monday mornings and Friday afternoons
The other ones on a hunger strike he’s dying by degrees
How come Jesus gets industrial disease
Of course the lines that really sparked my interest are the ones about Jesus. The first is two men say they’re Jesus, one of them must be wrong and the other is the last four lines. We have two men claiming to be Jesus and their methods of fixing the world’s problems take two completely different paths. One will perform miracles and get rid of those bothersome days of the week while the other one is slowly starving himself to death. At least the last one is willing to die for something. Alas, we never learn his motivations other than his bout of industrial disease.
ToBeContinued
Icool
Cobb
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