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Now that
Martha Stewart is going to jail ~ and the bare breasts in the Justice
Department have been covered ~ Homeland
Security , under the guise of the
patriot Act, and
desperate for positive exposure ~ have nabbed
none other than former pop
singer and peace activist , Cat
Stevens .
Wow ! Cat
Stevens ~ The infamous Homeland Security watch
list first bagged Ted Kennedy a few months
ago, now Cat Stevens . Whose next ? Howard Dean ? Jimmy Carter ?
Walter Cronkite ? Myself ?
Jack Kus,
United for Pierce County, obviously is as
impressed as I am ~ and offers his equally sardonic
reaction ;
--You know I've seen a lot of what the
world can do/And it's breaking my heart in two.
--Cat Stevens.
Cat Stevens is being followed by more than a
moonshadow. All I can say is: Thank God.
Thank God -- and
you know which God I'm talking about -- that the USA PATRIOT
Act considers giving to Muslim charities a form of terrorism.
Thanks to the USA PATRIOT Act, our ever-vigilant
guardians of the national security state were able to place Yusuf
Islam, the Greek-American convert to the Muslim "religion"
formerly known as Cat Stevens, who now lives in Britain, on
a no-fly list.
I mean, we're talking about a
menace here -- the composer of "Peace
Train," "Morning Has Broken,"
and "Wild World."
A real threat.
When, despite this precaution, the U.S. Department of
Transportation learned on Tuesday through its Advanced Passenger
Information System that an airline was bearing down on U.S. airspace
carrying this dangerous individual -- a man who in the past
has consorted with the likes of British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
U.K. Home Secretary David Blunkett, and Prince Charles -- it
sprang into action.
United Airlines Flight 919, headed toward Washington,
D.C., was diverted to Bangor, Maine.
There, the author of "Where Do the
Children Play?" was removed from the plane.
Today he has been or soon will be deported back to Britain, "on
national security grounds," said Homeland Security
Department spokesman Dennis Murphy.
Thus the nation's capital was spared a dangerous
encounter.
Whew!
The man is, after all,
clearly capable of subversion.
Didn't he write these lines, for example: "Well
you've cracked the sky, scrapers fill the air./But will you keep on
building higher/'Til there's no more room up there?/Will you make us
laugh, will you make us cry?/Will you tell us when to live, will you
tell us when to die?"
What's that supposed to mean, huh? It
sounds to me like a justification for the 9/11 attacks.
And just what was he implying when he wrote, in
"Wild World": "But
just remember there's a lot of bad, and beware"?
And don't the lines "Lord, my body
has been a good friend,/But I won't need it when I reach the end"
suggest self-destructive tendencies that could be exploited by
organizers of suicide bombings?
I don't know about you, but the sooner he's out of
the country, the safer I'll feel.
Is there any reason to let into the country a man who
once wrote: "I have my freedom/I can make my
own rules"? Or "I don't
want to work away/Doing just what they all say"?
Who does this guy think he
is?
Can there be
any room in America for someone who once sang: "Don't
you feel the day is coming/And it won't be too soon/When the people
of the world/Can all live in one room"?
To think that as recently as May Yusuf Islam/Cat
Stevens eluded the Dept. of Homeland Security and slipped into New
York! For "a charity event"!! Oh,
yeah, sure.
Did you hear me? New York! And this time
he was headed for Washington! Connect the dots, for
God's sake!
Maybe the Dept. of Homeland Security should have done
with it and seize the wretch at once. There must be some empty
cages in Guantanamo. Then he'd find out how wrong he was when
he wrote: "Life is like a maze of doors/And they
all open from the side you're on." Not
the doors in Guantanamo, buster!
In any case, we don't need him here.
After all, he'll never understand that the war on terrorism is
the defining struggle of our time.
This man is hopeless!
This is a man who once wrote: "No, I can't
keep it in. I can't keep it in./I've got to let it out.
I've got to show the world./The world's got to know,/Know of the
love,/Love that lies low, so/Why can't you say--/If you know, then
why can't you say--/You've got too much deceit,/Deceit kills the
light,/Light needs to shine,/I said shine
light,/Shine light . . ."
Enough. I feel ill.
Allen
Roland is a practicing psychotherapist who also shares a daily
political and social commentary on his weblog and website www.allenroland.com
He
also guest hosts a weekly national radio show on
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