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They do not want us to have anything to say about what they do.
Hated oil? What are you talking about?
Neither am I.
(Two of them are no longer with us, unfortunately.)
Fr. Philip Berrigan (October 5, 1923 – December 6, 2002)
Elmer Maas (??? - May 8, 2009)
Charlie King
My name is Daniel Berrigan, chaplan at a hospice for the dying.
I have seen the face of death. It is for life, I bring this hammer down.
My name is Molly Rush. I have six children, they deserve a future.
I strike this blow today for the children all the world around.
I hear the prophets' cry of hope ring through the prison wall.
We've waited thirty centuries to see that hammer fall.
If we think we've got thirty more, we cannot see at all.
For swords into plowshares, the hammer has to fall.
My name is Elmer Maas. Were this a peaceful world, I'd sit and play piano.
But lacking Nero's concience, I could not watch that fire devour the land.
My name is John Schuchardt. I am no stranger to the prison that awaits us.
But where genocide is legal, I stand an outlaw with a hammer in my hand.
I hear the prophets' cry of hope ring through the prison wall.
We've waited thirty centuries to see that hammer fall.
If we think we've got thirty more, we cannot see at all.
For swords into plowshares, the hammer has to fall.
Dean Hammer is my name. Mica and Isahia my tradition.
Oh, I tried to be their scholar, but could not escape their logic in the end.
My name is Philip Berrigan. In world war II I flew the bombing missions.
Now with every blow I strike today, I say the bombs will never fall again.
I hear the prophets' cry of hope ring through the prison wall.
We've waited thirty centuries to see that hammer fall.
If we think we've got thirty more, we cannot see at all.
For swords into plowshares, the hammer has to fall.
Carl Cabott is my name. I have lived and worked amoung the thirld world peoples.
I've seen corporations flourish, while the poor were left to fight for every breath.
My name is Anne Montgomery. My life spent in community with women.
I bring their healing power to this factory of of carnage and of death.
I hear the prophets' cry of hope ring through the prison wall.
We've waited thirty centuries to see that hammer fall.
If we think we've got thirty more, we cannot see at all.
For swords into plowshares, the hammer has to fall.
The hammer has to fall...
Oh, well.
programs that serve the basic needs of the people are not profit making organizations. They are like our fire departments - paid for by taxes to serve all. They are not means tested because testing to see what your income is costs money. A lot less money than just including everyone. That is why the administration of Social Security is cheaper than food stamps - because we spend a lot on workers to approve the applications for the last. It also takes a lot of money for the doctor/hospital to file all the different insurance papers to charge for what they do. Consolidating programs to eliminate more than one administration would also make it cheaper. And finally we use a three tier system (local, state and federal) to run most of our programs - I suspect that does not happen in other countries.
