I saw a bumper sticker on a car with New York plates. Got me thinking....

The bumper sticker says:
Jet noise - the sound of freedom
Yeah...The bumper sticker says:
Jet noise - the sound of freedom
Freedom (to do what?)
To make War?
Freedom (to do what?)
To Kill?
Freedom
To take what you want
No nothing can stop this
Freedom

Freedom
Say it without fear

Freedom
From your lips to god’s ear
It’s a fact! Over here
Freedom is the heartbeat of the Nation
The prayed for Salvation
The birthright of the Constitution
The battle cry of Revolution
The corner stone of Institutions
Sewn into the very seeds of the soil
The daily toil of the immigrant
The hope of the ignorant
Written in the clips of newspapers
On the lips of politicians
In the scripts of every foreign mission
The ultimate vision
This life ambition of Freedom

Oh Freedom!

Yes Freedom and his brothers
Competition, and Free Enterprise
Are very much alive and thriving----
in the Corporate High Rises of the rich
Fine wine they sip
Sink perfect white teeth into
Whole red strawberries dripping in cream
Living The Dream
Guarding their Gross Amounts of Money
like Holy Honey by Pious Bees
While out in the streets…

They’re selling Freedom Fries in the burger joints
Sing Hallelujah!
And yelling Freedom Cries at West Point
Sing Hallelujah!
They got Freedom Knight Fighters in the jets overhead
Sing Hallelujah!
And if you can’t afford your dinner
Eat Freedom instead
Sing Hallelujah!

No, not everyone basks in Freedom's shining glory
In fact the old myth of the Freedom Story
stands balanced on quicksand and
There are cries and moans
in the undertones….

Somewhere a young woman is beaten by her boyfriend
And can’t afford medical attention
No medics or Red Cross intervention here
In this Freedom Zone
No Freedom rations either for the man whose home
Is 'The Culvert Under the Road'
Keeps everything he owns in a Walmart shopping cart
Dines on scraps from the deli super mart
Looks up from his cardboard bed
Sees the cars he will never own whiz by overhead
With bumper stickers that say
Jet noise- the sound of Freedom
He cannot get the concept

"Well. it’s hard to accept," mutter some,
"But in the end, this is still Freedom!"
"Besides" say the Politicians
"We'll get around to these issues in a year or two...
But we've got to have priorities and we've got a war to brew

(As Politician on phone)
Well, tell them I gotta give em something----
Jobs?
Okay... how much will that cost?
Hell you say! Never mind!
We'll fix things the old fashioned way...
We'll just have a Parade!

Yes, Let’s have a Parade!
Let’s have a Parade!
Keep the drummers drumin’
The floats a comin’
The bands a playin’
The flags a wavin’
We'll put the Glory Boys on TV
Show their victories on the big screen!
It’s all glitter and gold
Glory smiles on the bold
Oh! Let’s have a Parade!

(Chanted)
Yes, good people!
Think of.....
Mother in the kitchen baking apple pie!
While Sally's at the 'drive-in' picures in the sky
And Pop is in his slippers suckin’ on his pipe
And Spot the dog loves Puff the cat
And isn’t this the life?
This Freedom
This Freedom
This Freedom
This Freedom.....

Just stand aside as
Dick and Jane go marching,
Marching hand in hand
To fight and die in foreign lands
To give Freedom and his brothers
a fighting chance


(As Politician)
And to fight Terrorism!
The oil in the area is just happenstance….

And back the Homeland:

(as Reporter)
"The Terror Alert is on high today
We suggest you stay in on a day like today
Such a sacrifice to pay
for Freedom
... Jack, back to you..."

Perhaps, but In the home of 'The Passion of the Christ.com'
The country second only to India in religious aplomb
Where God, it's been said, blesses the warheads on every bomb
The rhetoric for Freedom goes on…
And as one Famous Five Star General declared on television Nationwide....

"Our God is bigger than their god and he is on our side"

Yes! Our God is bigger than your god!
He is on our side
We will bask in the Glory of Righteousness
Defending the Right
We will march with pride!
God will guide our jets with our fond regrets
And protect our troops from harm
God will smite our foe
with one Mighty blow and
And we’ll add another star
To our flag of Freedom
How do you spell Freedom?
It’s spelled
D O… double L ... AR

Jet noise the sound of Freedom