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Call to Service: All are Welcome

(adapted from a poem by Marian Wright Edelman)

LORD, I cannot preach like Martin Luther King, Jr.
or turn a poetic phrase like Shakespeare
but I care and am willing to serve.

I do not have General Patton's and
George Washington's courage
or Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt's political skills
but I care and am willing to serve.

I cannot sing like Frank Sinatra
or organize like Susan B. Anthony
but I care and am willing to serve.

I am not holy like Pope John Paul or the Dalai Lama,
forgiving like Mandela, or disciplined like Gandhi
but I care and am willing to serve.

I am not brilliant like Einstein
or Ben Franklin,
or as eloquent as John F. Kennedy or Barbara Jordan
but I care and am willing to serve.

I have not Mother Teresa's saintliness,
Dorothy Day's love or
Lou Gherig's gentle tough spirit
but I care and am willing to serve.

God, it may not seem as easy as the 60s
to frame an issue and forge a solution
but I care and am willing to serve.

My mind and body are not so swift as in youth
and my energy comes in spurts
but I care and am willing to serve.

I'm so young
nobody will listen
I'm not sure what to say or do
but I care and am willing to serve.

I can't see or hear well
speak good English, stutter sometimes
and get real scared standing up before others
but I care and am willing to serve.

Use me as Thou will to save Thy children today and tomorrow
and to build a nation and world where no
child is left behind, everyone feels welcome,
and we fight for democracy
and the ideals and values
this great nation was founded upon.

This is from a poem, "A Prayer for Each of Us to Serve," written by Marian Wright Edelman. I adapted it with additional sentiments and the names of individuals who were personally resonant for me. Marian Wright Edelman is the founder of the Children's Defense Fund, whose site you can find here.

Comments (3)

The tradition of protest and opposition to wrongheaded policies is alive and well in America. The irony of it all is that this bastion of democracy is being practiced by mostly non-citizens!! The hundreds of thousands of illegal and allegedly legal immigrants demonstrating on our city streets are only a testament to the apathy and lack of cohesive strength of the American People.

Gas prices are insanely high and getting higher. George Bush and his Oil Cronies are a criminal cabal making outrageous profits on the backs of hard working, poorly paid Americans. Why is there not thousands if not millions of people in the streets protesting for an end to price gouging and highway robbery. It's also the States that keep raising the gas tax whenever there痴 a shortfall from their overzealous spending. That applies to Repukelicans and Democrites alike..

Of course Mass Transit could provide an alternative to driving the car to work every morning and spending $100 plus a week just to get there but no that's never going to be allowed to happen. Service is purposely made horrible, inconvenient and lacking in even the most basic amenities. The Auto and Oil industries would not let us have a viable alternative to their gas guzzling, salary depleting machines.

Americans don't seem to care though and continue to fill up and drive off. We want bigger, more expensive cars we can't afford and we sacrifice the welfare of ourselves, our families and all the other things that would make life special to feed this beast in the garage or at the curb. Why aren't we upset enough to have the spirit of these immigrants? Please, someone tell me.

Dear Ms. Colgan, I am giving you heads up on the action that I will be taking , if President Bush fails to come forward and announce that the citizens of this nation will be allow to vote on two citizen's issues and others that I am posting here for you and the world to read. I have posted something like this already. He will recieve it via email on the 7th of June and via snail mail about the same date. Here is the letter now ma'am; I ask you to let me know what you think and anyone else by email.

Dear President George Bush,

I refer to you as this, since as of twelve noon today on this day the seventh of June of the year two thousand and six terminate yours and all elected federal officials plus the justices that either heard or refused to hear the Ms. Terri Schiavo痴 case. I do this under the original ten amendments of the United States Constitution, since they are the only ones that have any bearing on this termination of all these people. All these people failed to uphold the United States Constitution when you all failed to enforce what this nations 堵overnment� stated that would end this in the eyes of the courts in years past.

I also terminate your elected position as well as, Vice President Richard Cheney, Senators Obama, Senator Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer both of New York, as well as Congressman Brain Higgins for failure to allow the citizens the right to decide what are citizen痴 rights issues by a vote that I requested and demanded of this so-called government on the Roe vs. Wade decision and The Eminent Domain decisions of The United States Supreme Court. I have brought into question the constitutional question of these decisions and have requested and demanded that these issues get final resolve by having them brought to the people of this nation in a vote that is guaranteed under the United States Constitution when a citizen or citizen痴 deemed it necessary to do so. You all have failed to allow for this vote, so this nation will on July fourth of two thousand and seven elect a new 堵overnment to represent us as a nation, since you are now being declared by these failures to uphold the United States Constitution 泥omestic Enemies of The United States Constitution, as of which terminates your terms as of this time.

I enact this right under The United States Constitution (the original part of this document) that the writers of this document did not state that an elected official 溺UST� full fill this their elected term. They only stated how long a term will be for and this is all. Their intent (unless this government can show otherwise) was that if a citizen or citizen痴 of this nation may terminate any elected official if they fail to uphold what they swear to uphold, which this government now has done in both these allegations.

Their intent was (again unless this government can prove otherwise in the original ten amendments) that the citizen痴 of this nation are the only ones with the power to decide on citizen rights issues, such as these two issues are clearly.

Unless any federal official can show any television or radio footage of them request of Mr. Schiavo as to produce a 鏑iving Will� to allow Ms. Terri Schiavo to have the right to die, then all are terminated for their failure to uphold her right to life according to The United States Constitution, which every citizen has this right, as well. I am taking this action for her behalf, as well as my own behalf.

The people of this nation is truly the real government and it is time to show this entity that the writers of The United States Constitution that we are and that they are just representatives of us and that they can be terminated before their elected terms are finished. The United States Constitution is for a democracy and not a socialist government as this entity is turning into.
In this 鉄pecial National Vote� which it is called we will also decided a few other issues and set standards that this entity will abide by. These issues will be:

1. When will the right to life to be enforced as well as what will end 妬n the eyes of the court� the right to die? Will it be 塗e says/she says� as it is right now or will we enforce what the 堵overnment� in the past said it will be that a 斗iving Will� be produced to settle it in all courts of this nation?
2. We will decide as to what manner a citizen will be sentence to die, if they do not state otherwise in their 鏑iving Will�? We will decide how a judge may sentence a person to be starved or will they sentence them to lethal injection?
3. We will decide as a nation when life begins is it at conception or at birth?
4. We will decide as a nation what a valued life is? We will do it in the proper way unlike The United States Supreme Court did in their decision. This should have and now will be done by 鄭LL� American citizens instead of just nine citizens.
5. We will decide as to whether 鄭LL� candidates after an election (national election) will continue to keep campaign contributions or will they turn it over to the 堵overnment� to go towards the Nation debt and after this (if ever) paid off will be split equally to all federal agencies to help them besides what we pay in taxes? We are the ones who give them this money to run, so we will decide what will happen to it after the election by making this law.
6. We (as a nation) will decide whether the government will get a pay increase or not? If this is passed it will be done on every 撤residential Election� and it will list one to ten percent increase or just straight out no. We as citizens since we pay their wages we 鄭LL� have the right to vote on any increase of the elected officials.

Until this vote is done 殿ll� federal agencies on the first of October will receive what they received according to the two thousand and six budgets. They will not be able to seek any increase until the newly elected government is in place.

So in closing, I, Thomas L. Coats, do now terminate all of the elected officials and all appointed officials that this affects.

Signed this date seventh of June two thousand and six by myself as an American citizen. So, this government will either prove that the constitution allows them to violate it without repercussion to keep their 屠obs� or they will leave in disgrace as 泥omestic Enemies of The United States Constitution�! They will not be able to get this nation to pay for their moves back to their home states, because of them leaving the way they are 妬n disgrace�.

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