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    Watering the Tree, Thoughts on Liberty and Tyranny
    Watering the Tree, Thoughts on Liberty and Tyranny
    Watering the Tree, Thoughts on Liberty and Tyranny
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    Watering the Tree, Thoughts on Liberty and Tyranny

    By Kender MacGowan

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    Watering the Tree, Thoughts on Liberty and Tyranny has been called "A Common Sense for the 21st century." Using the under utilized form of poetic satire, it pierces the heart of the culture and takes issue with the loss of personal responsibility, American exceptionalism and liberty in America today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKender MacGowan
    Release dateMay 2, 2011
    ISBN9781458070128
    Watering the Tree, Thoughts on Liberty and Tyranny
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    Kender MacGowan

    Kender MacGowan, a devout patriot, reluctant romantic, sarcastic cynic and victim of love writes poetry as a cheap alternative to therapy, hoping that somewhere karma will pile up in his favor. He sounds the alarm about the dangers to losing our freedoms to a society slipping into the dead ends of socialism from a compound in Southern California, where he samples copious amounts of single malt scotch and practices the ancient arts of the Curmudgeon.

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      Watering the Tree, Thoughts on Liberty and Tyranny - Kender MacGowan

      Foreword By Evan Sayet

      When you do what I do for a living, you spend virtually your every waking moment thinking, reading, writing, discussing and debating. After the typical day is done, it is easy to be what I call Jihaded out. Not another word on the subject – or any of the other equally vital matters like the Leftists efforts to undermine our freedoms – is digestible. This is the time of day for the poems my friend Kender MacGowan emails to me.

      Struggling to find exactly the right word 75,000 times in a row (which is what I am doing while writing my books), or to ingest stories that run for thousands of words, one after another after another as I seek to learn from the likes of Victor Davis Hanson and Charles Krauthammer (et al), listening to the give-and-take on the debate and discussion programs that run for hour after hour on the radio and on the cable news channels and elsewhere, I find it a joyous reprieve to spend a few moments with the pithy and to-the-point and typically right-on short poems – short stories really – that come from the pen of the quirky and curious (but definitely not P.C.) MacGowan.

      In order to be so to-the-point – that which is required of the formant Mr. MacGowan chooses – the author dispenses with the niceties. He takes for granted that his reader knows (even if he won’t publicly state) the truth about the Left and in rhyme and rhythm, tells it like it is but shouldn’t be. He is not tame nor self-censoring about either the topics (everything from the Obama socialist scheme to the sheeple-like mentality of his followers) or what he has to say about them and the result is not just fun and funny because it is clever and witty, instead it is, as Homer Simpson might say, funny because it’s true.

      This collection of Mr. MacGowan's works reflect the man I know as both a friend and a fellow warrior in this battle to take America back from those who – intentionally or, as often as not, merely through their self-centered stupidity – seek the destruction of all that has made America good and great. In this war for our culture and our freedom, MacGowan turns to one of the under-utilized forms of communication, poetic satire. It is a weapon we need to use, a weapon that, in Mr. MacGowan’s hands, pierces the armor of the self-important and powerful who are leading the charge against freedom.

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      Freedom or Servitude?

      Throughout mankind's history people were born at home, where their mother lived when the moment came. No matter where they lived or who ruled the land they lived in, they lived with a reality in which being born at home was only the first of many trials one would face. There were no sterile delivery rooms, gown clad medical professionals or medications. The truth of the matter is you were pretty much on your own. Life's a rough deal, nobody gets out alive and it's not by any stretch of the word 'fair'. The more successful folk would have midwives attending, or if they were lucky enough they would have women around who had already gone through childbirth and could help, but for the bulk of humanity it was a do it yourself

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