This painting is the fifth painting in "The Forbidden Fruit Series" titled; "5 Steps to Recover our Freedom". The first and most important step, would be to take away the undeserving freedom of the criminals, who rape the freedom from good clean americans, and give that freedom back to the victoms and good law abiding citizens, who rightfully deserve it, and for the judges and all other authorities to start standing up for the good law abiding citizens, against worthless criminals at all cost. I painted this picture out of extreme anger and biterness towards all the american authorities, who sat back, doing absolutily nothing, while 6 to 16 drug dealers, sold drugs in my front yard for a whole year, and off my front porch for a week out of that year in 2003. Those authorities include, North Chicago Police, Chief of police, mayor, crime stoppers, lake county sherifs, Illinois state police and finally the FBI in Chicago. Then finally, in december 2003, I just escaped with my life, two saturday nights in a role. The drug dealers set up an ambush to kill me. Then after that, someone from the north chicago city hall, who wouldn't do anything about the problem, sent someone, to offer me a lowsy $30,000.00 for my house, when it was worth $90,000.00. I took the money, just so that my son, my daughter and I could escape with our lives. The worth of the house was my only savings, and my whole lives savings. Within the next year, I tried to get four different lawyers to sue the city of North Chicago for endangerment of our lives and the loss of $60,000.00, in equaty of what my house was really worth, but none of those lawyers would take my case. They all said, "you don't have a case unless one of you were badly hurt, or killed. When You Gonna Wake Up ---by Bob Dylan God don't make no promises that He don't keep. You got some big dreams, baby, but in order to dream you gotta still be asleep. When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? Counterfeit philosophies have polluted all of your thoughts. Karl Marx has got ya by the throat, Henry Kissinger's got you tied up in knots. When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? You got innocent men in jail, your insane asylums are filled, You got unrighteous doctors dealing drugs that'll never cure your ills. When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? You got men who can't hold their peace and women who can't control their tongues, The rich seduce the poor and the old are seduced by the young. When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, You got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? Spiritual advisors and gurus to guide your every move, Instant inner peace and every step you take has got to be approved. When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? Do you ever wonder just what God requires? You think He's just an errand boy to satisfy your wandering desires. When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? You can't take it with you and you know that it's too worthless to be sold, They tell you, "Time is money" as if your life was worth its weight in gold. When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain? There's a Man up on a cross and He's been crucified. Do you have any idea why or for who He died? When you gonna wake up, when you gonna wake up When you gonna wake up and strengthen the things that remain?