(Through Rose-Coloured Glasses)

If I Had a hammer
(Words and music by L. Hays and P. Seeger)

If I had a hammer
I’d hammer in the morning
I’d hammer in the evening … all over this land,
I’d hammer out danger
I’d hammer out a warning
I’d hammer out love between all of my brothers and my sisters
All over this land.

If I had a bell
I’d ring it in the morning
I’d ring it in the evening … all over this land,
I’d ring out danger
I’d ring out a warning
I’d ring out love between all of my brothers and my sisters
All over this land.

If I had a song
I’d sing it in the morning
I’d sing it in the evening … all over this world,
I’d sing out danger
I’d sing out a warning
I’d sing out love between all of my brothers and my sisters
All over this land.

If I’ve got a hammer
And I’ve got a bell
And I’ve got a song to sing … all over this land,
It’s a hammer of justice
It’s a bell of freedom
It’s a song about love between all of my brothers and my sisters
All over this land.

Light One Candle   (by Peter Yarrow)

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. – Chinese proverb

Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice
Justice and freedom demand
But light one candle for the wisdom to know
When the peacemaker’s time is at hand

Don’t let the light go out
It’s lasted for so many years
Don’t let the light go out
Let it shine through our love and our tears

Light one candle for the strength that we need
To never become our own foe
And light one candle for those who are suffering
Pain we learned so long ago

Light one candle for all we believe in
That anger not tear us apart
And light one candle to find us together
With peace as the song in our hearts

Don’t let the light go out
It’s lasted for so many years
Don’t let the light go out
Let it shine through our love and our tears

Don’t let the light go out
It’s lasted for so many years
Don’t let the light go out
Let it shine through our love and our tears

What is the memory that’s valued so highly
That we keep it alive in that flame?
What’s the commitment to those who died
That we cry out they’ve not died in vain?

We have come this far always believing
That justice would somehow prevail
This is the burden, this is the promise
This is why we will not fail

Don’t let the light go out
It’s lasted for so many years
Don’t let the light go out
Let it shine through our love and our tears

Don’t let the light go out
It’s lasted for so many years
Don’t let the light go out
Let it shine through our love and our tears

Don’t let the light go out
Don’t let the light go out
Don’t let the light go out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yZ1zxtbOJE

(Through Rose-Coloured Glasses)

You just happened to be in the wrong place.

No fun to be the Canadian Police nowadays, eh.

Cry of police brutality was everywhere; in Vancouver, Toronto and even Ottawa.

A Vancouver policeman pushed a female citizen with multiple sclerosis to the ground, simply because she touched him while walking too close to him, in her awkward gait. He was only now been charged, many months after.

In Ottawa, video tapes showed Ottawa police kneed and stripped search a female, and kicked a homeless man. The Ottawa police chief did admit, they do have a problem and is looking into it, stay tune.

In Toronto, the Ontario Ombudsman Andre Marin released a report “Caught in the Act”, charged that the G20 secret law passed by the Ontario government and enacted by police, with brutal force, is illegal. The massive arrest and beating of peaceful protesters by no-name policeman and woman, were recorded on video tapes and photographs.

Do you still remember Officer Bubble, the utube famous policeman, who threatened and later, actually arrested a female bubble-blower?

Chief Blair, you just happened to be in the wrong place. If you are in China, the government will already be flexing their muscle for you.

G20 5M type of law was common practice in China. Look at Liu Xia, Liu Xiao Bo,’s wife, was already under preemptive house arrest, soon after Liu was announced as the winner. Or a 5000KM law, for Liu’s academic friends, warned not to leave the country, effectively prevented them to attend the Oslo ceremony. And all these, without any outcry from its citizen. They did not utter a word of protest.

There, you don’t have to hide your name tag or badge number, or threaten any peaceful bubble blower, just utter something like “My dad is Lee Kong”, then everything will be all right. Even the families of any policeman will be served and protected, for their own interest, with iron fists. No need to raise a baton.

Don’t worry; even if you stay here, there are still options available. For example, you can always run for the next federal election as a star candidate.

For now, yes we understand, you just happened to be in the wrong place.

(Through Rose-Coloured Glasses)

1. Stick to the obvious. “No Comment” is still the most commonly used and reliable vocabulary of any politician.

2. Start each cable/email/correspondence with a Declaration: The following communication may contain hot, smelly, and explosive content. Viewers discretion is advised.

3. Another attempt with “wash your hands” tactics: start with this, “Don’t know if it is true or not, but here it is anyway”, OR “is there any merit in this? Please comment!”

4. Call the Plumbers, the White House Plumbers [a], that is.

5. Apply Leak Ender 2000, the miracle leak sealer [b] .

6. Follow Mayor Ford’s shining example. Stop the gravy (gluey) train (leak), declared “War on the Car” (Info Super Highway) is over. We are going underground.

7. Divert attention, start another war (Korean?)

8. Follow the advice of an ex-Harper advisor [c] .

9. Hello magazine, National Enquirer, Entertainment Tonight, 八卦雜誌 ………, ladies and gentlemen, here is our latest, the brand new Gossip Girls (and Guys) show, the politically correct WikiLeaks.

10. Wear a Pamper.

[a] The White House Plumbers, sometimes simply called the Plumbers, were a covert White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971 during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Its task was to stop the leaking of classified information to the news media. Its members branched into illegal activities working for the Committee to Re-elect the President, including the Watergate break-ins and the ensuing Watergate scandal.

[b] The miracle sealer that stops virtually any leak immediately! Great for gutters, pipes, walls, pools, flashing, roofs and more! (a TV commercial)

[c] Mr. Flanagan, an ex-Harper advisor, now a Calgary University professor, made his comments on CBC’s Power and Politics show Tuesday evening. In a discussion about the significance of the leaks, Mr. Flanagan said: “I think Assange (of WikiLeaks), should be assassinated, actually. I think Obama should put out a contract or maybe use a drone or something.”