“Ballad of William Worthy”
Song by Phil Ochs
Commentary* by Chuck Bowden
“YOU’RE LIVIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD, IN THE FREE WORLD YOU MUST STAY”….hmmmm, sounds rather familiar….Get too Damn smart and talented and famous and you too could be selectively quarantined to remain here in the USA, for National Security reasons the rest of the World is off limits….PAUL ROBESON, you are hereby DENIED access to the World, likewise NO public forum will be allowed here for Your Kind, your incomparable talents makes us Whiteys just too Damn jealous so we’ll arbitrarily punished your existence with our Manifest Idiocies and call our justification, ”In the interests of National Security”….Oh, the past is not so pretty when you tell the truth….
It’s the Mother of all Sacred Cows,
the borderless black hole of justifyability….National Security….Can’t touch that baby, charges, accusations, trials, evidence, court orders, reasons, sheeeit we don’t need none of that, We do what We please when We please as WE cart along our National Security Reasons to ensure the disappearance of all Rights and Freedoms and Persons out of Sync with our Superior New World White agenda….Covert agencies?....What covert agencies?....The sacred secret Hand of this militaristic star-spangled US government, we, I mean it does not exist, but that arsenal of life-threatening evidence we, I mean they’ve collected on every single one of you, well it just is, in secret, there for all of our better tomorrow’s no matter how many Freedoms are disappearing….No more questions please….There is no reason for your brains to wander anywhere that isn’t Disney-esque nor Hollywood-esque, meaning scripted, prefabbed and contrived, so stay there en masse and trust us the Weapon Suppliers of the World to map your Future, so kiss your ass good night and see you on the next roller coaster of a Nightmare, pop-up designer Wars included….
*Excerpt from my book
"SONGS MIGHTIER THAN SWORDS"
the Definitive Anti-War Song Book
1998 till NOW Unpublished