Malcolm Evans – America on a limb
Malcolm Evans – America on a limb

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Reasonable, but I prefer a depiction of them being policemen of the world while they rub the world blind!
Rub the world blind? That definitely might apply to these gentlemen.
We always wanted to be like America. A saying – ‘Often what you want most, you find disappointing when you get it’. Guns rife, is this to be our life. (Rhymes are free today). Armed police at schools; education to be an arena of conflict beyond rulers on hands for speaking Maori.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/470509/armed-police-respond-to-incident-on-auckland-s-north-shore-after-schools-were-put-in-lockdown
We are being educated to accept lack of effective government and economy so this doesn’t occur – yet cock-crowing about the wonders of our society despite! In spite? Is this what we expected? Surely not.
The dialogue about the advantages of the USA over Puerrto Rico is actively, colourfully and tunefully argued in this clip from West Side Story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhSKk-cvblc
Limbo – how low can you go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtXr3MN4e8c
Started as a slave ritual. We have yet to develop our own rituals as slavehood descends on us. Protesting the start?
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