OCCUPY holiday songs/ OLA does outreach @ fed

On a day when free speech and the entire Bill of Rights -BOR-

hung on a thread

or to be more accurate

at the tip of a pen

a decision that had also been written with pens

by people called, the founders

hung in an eerily precarious situation.

Concerned citizens Occupied the corner of Wilshire and Veterans Avenue in Santa Monica California to draw attention to indefinite detention section -1031- of the annually passed NDAA.

Not since the patriot act, which only stabbed the BOR in the face

has the very foundations of this nation been at risk

yet it was not only the 1st amendment at risk

most of the bill of rights are at issue in the 2011 NDAA

 due process

 and a little concept called habeas corpus

   yes i know lincoln suspended it during the civil war... are we at    civil war? Make relevant arguments!

Remember the 1st amendment?

to never censor speech

  hint they put it first cause its important

     without it this article is not possible, and specifically without the internet as well.

  not that there has not been legitimate threats to that speech by other    mechanisms

  some personal: self censorship

  some social:  facebook, twitter, youtube censorship

  some institutional: concentration of news media eg: Viacom/News corp/ 

  some legislative: Telecom act of 1996, NDAA, etc

  some fascist: lockdown of internet in china/iran -check out S.O.P.A.

  PS: Our founding documents were written on hemp paper, yea, google it.

Getting back to holiday songs. Parody is a long protected part of free speech. Wierd Al yankovich, Snoop, elvis and citizens such as the one -name lost somewhere in the paper work, well just call him annon for now- that recreated this classic,  are the basis for an entire industry. Outlaw sampling alone and an already shrinking sector -haha just kidding, thats just what the R.I.A.A. PR says- disappears. Billions of dollars stolen -he says sarcastically- from the economy. Cause major record labels pay taxes?

<crowd participation is key... we were pretty good by the third time acapella in that hour- some goofed, lmao- but musical accompaniment/ vehicular solidarity as opposed to assault is always heartening.>

MISC facts:

The founders GA took 2+years

Created September 25, 1789
Ratified December 15, 1791

 although we know what they meant by 

  "all men are created equal"

  they really did only mean men, and a specific subset @ that

  words are powerful huh?