GET UP STAND UP, STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight!
Preacherman, dont tell me,Heaven is under the earth.
I know you dont know What life is really worth.
Its not all that glitters is gold;alf the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh!Stand up for your rights. come on!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: dont give up the fight!
Most people think,Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everythingAnd make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,You will look for yours on earth:
and now you see the light,You stand up for your rights. jah!Get up, stand up! (jah, jah!)Stand up for your rights! (oh-hoo!)Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!)Dont give up the fight! (life is your right!)
Get up, stand up! (so we cant give up the fight!)
Stand up for your rights! (lord, lord!)
Get up, stand up! (keep on struggling on!)
Dont give up the fight! (yeah!)
We sick an tired of-a your ism-skism game -Dyin n goin to heaven in-a jesus name, lord.
We know when we understand:Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,But you cant fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (what you gonna do? ),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah!)
So you better:Get up, stand up! (in the morning! git it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (stand up for our rights!)
Get up, stand up!Dont give up the fight!
Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )Dont give up the fight!
(get up, stand up!)Get up, stand up! ( ... )Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!Dont give up the fight! / bob marley end


I remember these words, I was part of the scene at the time, I was 23 or 24 , I am jamaican born, living in jamaica at the time this song came out. Like Marley I have an English parent. He was shot at a few times, so was I. I watched the island change in a decade. Many people had to leave in a hurry, leaving behind a dream place to live. There was poverty but there was hope. There is dispair now, poverty is a lot worse, 2000 murders per year out of a population of 2.7 million.

How does that relate to Britain,
Politics, greedy, evil, unprincipaled, power hungry politics. People offered unrealistic, untrue and unworkable policies. Once that evil took hold it has been impossible to get back to a system of justice for all the people. Freedom, political freedom is gone. I was surprised how quickly it went, I am still feeling the effects today, people from many other countries have seen it go as well. Here in Britain we feel that it will never happen here, democracy is too strong, the people wont allow it, our politicians are patroitic, checks and balances etc..

From my time here in Britain since 1979 I can say that Britain is loosing their freedom. I never thought it would have been possible but it is well advanced. I defy anyone to do a normal days activities and see how many rules govern us here in Britain you break. It is almost impossible to be law adiding anymore, now the children are being oppressed as children. The State, cradle to the grave is in control. The laws are everywhere, in every thing you do, in the human rights act, in the anti terrorism laws, health and safety, but is there much justice or fairness?
Undemocratic PM, undemocratic EU, Undemocratic laws, unelected bodies and polical police. Certain legal political parties have to meet in secret here in the UK today.
We are maybe one election or treaty away from losing all of the laws accumalated by the experiences this country has gone through over hundreds of years for laws made without our consent.

When you will not fight when you can win, you may have to fight when there is no chance of winning. Freedom is not free, it needs to be fought for. There is always forces who will fight to take those freedoms from us and we must always be alert and ready to fight to hold on to our rights and freedom.