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Hear “A Peaceful Solution” by Bill Hunter, Phil and Ann Pflage

Bill Hunter and Phil and Ann Pflager give us a great version of “A Peaceful Solution” in a traditional folk song style. Their style reminds us of both the long history of Americana music and the strong tradition of social protest folk songs.

The abuses of the Bush-Cheney administration provided an easy target for progressive reformers. Now the danger becomes believing the bad guys will soon be gone, the worst is over and salvation has been delivered in the person of Barack Obama.

The danger lies in allowing individuals to be a scapegoat for a destructive and unsustainable system. The system permitted the Bush-Cheney rise to power and has now produced a necessary rotation of management.

The regime change represented by a Barack Obama presidency is more a change in style than substance. Now is not the time to roll over and go back to sleep.

The system has been the engine behind social issues long before there were folk songs to bring attention to the issues. That engine has not been silenced.

Who will run Obama’s CIA, his Department of Homeland Security (which he will not dismantle), his National Security Council and his  Department of Defense? Will they be the same legendary war criminals, think tank assets and intelligence/security advisers who guided the Obama campaign?

• Zbigniew Brzezinski
• Anthony Lake, Clinton administration national security adviser
• Sarah Sewall, Clinton administration deputy secretary of defense, counter-insurgency czar
• Richard Clarke, Clinton and Bush administration counter-terrorism czar
• Susan Rice, Clinton administration Africa specialist and NSC member, Brookings
• Bruce Riedel, former CIA officer, NSC Near East and Asian affairs, Brookings

Without a doubt the system is in trouble with its own self-created crisis. Now is not the time to let it restructure itself.

We can still keep asking for peace. Obama’s murderous views on war are well documented and similar to those of Bush-Cheney.

We will not be subjected to a McCain-Palin presidency, which certainly would have ushered in horrors, violence, and insanity that likely would have dwarfed those of Bush-Cheney. At best we will see a more carefully thought out military agenda than that experienced during the Bush administration.

As Bill Hunter and Phil and Ann Pflager sing, it’s time to take back America.

If there’s peaceful solution to this peace revolution
We’ve got to take back America
There is a dream so believe it get ready to receive it
When we take back America
Now there are to many greedy steeling from the needy
We’ve got to take back America
Politicians keep on lying and good people keep on dying
We’ve got to take back America
If there’s a peaceful solution to this peace revolution
We’ve got to take back America
There was a dream so believe it get ready to receive it
When we take back America
Now if you hate things we have done and hate what we’ve become
We’ve got to take back America
Are we the brave and the free is this our democracy
If we don’t take back America
If there’s peaceful solution to this peace revolution
We’ve got to take back America
There is a war and we are in it lord knows we’ve got to win it
And take back America
So in the shadows of our steeples gather up all honest people
And take back America
Let truth and love steer the course and end these damned wars
And take back America
If there’s peaceful solution to this peace revolution
We’ve got to take back America
There is a dream so believe it get ready to receive it
When we take back America
There is a dream so believe it get ready to receive it
When we take back America

* * * * Artists’ Statements * * * * *

We believe that music is an effective way to communicate and that Bill Hunter has an exceptional ability to present his feelings in a way that resonates with an audience. We love Bill’s music and were excited to be a part of his version of Willie and Amy Nelson’s song.

Anne E. & Phil Pflager
(Annie and the Vets)

Phil and Anne do not give themselves the credit they deserve, they are an inspiring couple that are very involved with the peace movement and have been as long as I have known them. They are active members of Veterans For Peace, do a truth in recruiting program at local high schools countering the military recruiter’s misrepresentations and false promises and have a group, “Annie and the Vets”, with an endless repertoire of peace related songs both original and covers.

It is always my pleasure to share time and make music with them and their friends. They like you and Willie’s Peace Research Institute make me need to be more involved in this movement.

As I stated in October of 2007, I am passionate about creating peace because I believe peace, honesty and responsibility are the main ingredients to harmony, and I believe living in harmony with others and the earth are man’s only hope.  Over a year has passed and what was so apparent to me then has become even more so today.

I guess I have been working toward peace since the end of my high school senior year in 1970, while during a one on one conversation with my wrestling coach I was convinced the last thing I needed was to have my most proficient skill be taking of human life, he had been in special services and I was considering trying to become a green beret. Thanks to Coach Miller my life and perspective were changed forever.

Since, I have shared my thoughts with young ones that I heard were considering time in the military and tried to steer them to a more productive course. What motivates me to speak out for peace and the environment is that I believe this is a critical time. We can choose to live in harmony with the earth and others or we can bring an end to life as we know it. The choice is ours and I pray that we are up to the task.

I’m not sure if I chose music or if music chose me to help express my thoughts. Though I have been writing songs for many years only recently have I had the opportunity to share them with others and felt a need get involved and speak out against what I know is wrong. Through song I find I can most accurately convey my thoughts and emotions.

I think the key to A Peaceful Solution is for us to set an example, lead the way in sustainable consumption, economics and politics never forgetting the Golden Rule. If we are to have lasting solutions we need to teach by example, forcing others into submission is not the answer and though not all would agree I think, hope, most “Real Americans” and the brotherhood of man would.
Sincerely, Bill Hunter

Hear “A Peaceful Solution” by Bill Hunter, Phil and Ann Pflage

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