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...of democracy will have to face, if we do not turn back the brutal, calculated attempt to kill it after 2 centuries and a bit more, of the legacy of all those who did not go 'gentle in that good night' as they gave all and more to preserve it....
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-- Dylan Thomas
Rage, oh America, rage against the dying of the light...oh America, rage and defeat the temptation to go gentle into that good night of totalitarian, theocratic, imperialistic dark, dark, deadly night.
Mr Arnebeck, Mr Bonifaz, Congressman Conyers, Rev Jackson and all your colleagues, I truly hope you will enable millions to focus their rage and their intelligence, skill, resources and deep love of all that our Constitution represents on 13 December 2004 and never stop until we have defeated the dying of the light of our special American Democracy.
We must prevail, now.
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