I'm glad Morrissey said it!


'Bush should have died, not Reagan': Morrissey


http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/04-06/11.shtml

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/news/comments/view.html?story_id=119107

*Man, this coverage of Reagan is driving me insane! Who gives a shit! I feel like such a teenager for feeling so apathetic about this shit but it really is more than necessary! I'm also peeved that the mail didn't come today (in honor of Reagan?!) since I still haven't received the latest Morrissey album that I ordered about 2 weeks ago. I think it's lost in the mail! Almost by coincidence, Pitchfork featured a news story about some political shitstorm Morrissey has started by wishing that Bush would have died instead of Reagan. Amen brother! Although, I would take it one step further and say it wouldn't be such a loss if both were dead. I know there would still be unscrupulous people in power if they were dead; there would just be two less. I'm absolutely sick of white men in power! I might actually run for office so I can change that... urrghh.

Call me a hippie, but I totally agree with this song....


It was originally sung by Buffy Sainte-Marie but I heard the version by 60's folk singer, Donovan on a British Invasion compilation that I have. It's a very beautiful song that always gets me teary-eyed when I hear it. I only wish everyone could agree on the message of this song and then refuse to take part in any wars. The more I mature and learn, the more I realize that I'll never understand or support war of any nature. It's always wrong to kill, especially when it's civilians being killed with immense bombs. Fuck war and the military. Oh, and blind patriotism, too. I can't get out if this political mood that I'm in. I'm very worried about the issues at hand and the future. Not even music can soothe my nerves when I'm so angry about unjust killings.



UNIVERSAL SOLDIER
Buffy Sainte-Marie
© Caleb Music-ASCAP

I wrote "Universal Soldier" in the basement of The Purple Onion coffee house in Toronto in the early sixties. It's about individual responsibility for war and how the old feudal thinking kills us all. Donovan had a hit with it in 1965.

He's five feet two and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of 31 and he's only 17
He's been a soldier for a thousand years

He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an athiest, a Jain,
a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
and he knows he shouldn't kill
and he knows he always will
kill you for me my friend and me for you

And he's fighting for Canada,
he's fighting for France,
he's fighting for the USA,
and he's fighting for the Russians
and he's fighting for Japan,
and he thinks we'll put an end to war this way

And he's fighting for Democracy
and fighting for the Reds
He says it's for the peace of all
He's the one who must decide
who's to live and who's to die
and he never sees the writing on the walls

But without him how would Hitler have
condemned him at Dachau
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
He's the one who gives his body
as a weapon to a war
and without him all this killing can't go on

He's the universal soldier and he
really is to blame
His orders come from far away no more
They come from him, and you, and me
and brothers can't you see
this is not the way we put an end to war.