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Wordswroth
Himmler, decreeing murder, said the Jews
Should be "resettled" as the Nazis plotted
To wipe out an entire race and take
The place God had the Aryans allotted.
That was in 1942. Today,
To cloak the foulest deeds man can conceive,
Proving the force of misused euphemism,
Dictators still need language to deceive.
So beating, burning, stripping, smearing, starving,
Injecting, caging, pulping, boiling, blinding,
Assaulting, raping, sodomizing, soiling,
Garrotting, gutting, gunning, gouging, binding,
Degrading, drowning, amputating, strangling,
Disfiguring, freezing, scourging, manacling,
Dementing, maiming, mutilating, mangling,
Dog-biting, doping, groping, grasping, shackling,
Contorting, caging, cramping, crushing, chaining,
Depriving, burying, bashing, lashing, grabbing,
Molesting, slamming, suffocating, braining,
Defiling, hooding, leashing, wrenching, gagging,
Electrocuting, crucifying, hanging,
The vilest sadism ever devised,
Against such acts the law has no more standing
Since Torture's definition was revised,
Sanctioned in secret memorandum. Then
The captives driven to mass suicide
Engage in "self-injurious behavior,"
The U.S. says, to be self-justified.
Words are a two-edged sword, much like the spear
Achilles wielded in the Trojan war
To kill or heal. Words -- like the Word of God
Which blesses, wisely used, hope to restore,
But, careless spoke by cursory creed, can curse --
Will serve a ruthless master in distraction
If subjects and officials entertain
The mass delusion leading to destruction.
Hatred, racism become Patriotism.
With "tax cuts" are the U.S. people scammed,
While human-beings are blithely brutalized
As "enemy combatants," limbo-damned.
In deference to the "New Paradigm,"
Contempt is shown for international law.
The deaths of thousands are "collateral damage"
And misused "sanctions" slaughter millions more,
And, hallowed with a masquerading phrase
Such as "protecting victims' privacy,"
They keep back photographic evidence
Of U.S. military atrocity.
Killing opponents, innocents, dissenters
Is classified as "black reconnaissance"
Or "covert ops," to cover up and mask
A monstrous Machiavellian renaissance,
And secret deportations overseas
To cruel regimes, kidnappings, abduction,
Are termed "rendition," thus to countenance
Expedient stratagems of power's seduction.
Deforestation's known as "Healthy Forests,"
Corporate whitewash as Science, war as Peace,
Pollution as "Clear Skies," the love of money
As Love of God, oppression as Free Speech.
Lobbyists are fronted as regulators,
A mandate from infernal depths becomes
"A calling from beyond the stars for freedom."
Journalists are bribed, accountants cook the sums.
Compulsory ignorance is sugared as
"No Child Left Behind." Court rigging counts
As "Tort Reform," squandered Social Security
As "Voluntary Personal Accounts."
Election-rigging is Democracy,
Monopoly is Free Trade, blasphemy
Is Faith, and occupation, Liberty.
Meanwhile, facts are recast as heresy.
The pharisees are in the ascendancy
Straining out gnats of sexuality
But swallowing camels of atrocity,
Torture, rape, murder, genocide, lunacy.
"Mere words! Was anything so real as words?"
Asks Oscar Wilde.
For every careless word
Shall men be forced to give account thereof
On Judgment Day.
Take heed, for Heaven has heard.
Beware, the light of Truth is quickly dimming,
The path to desolation is beginning.
Behold, the propaganda war is winning.
What better covering than Scripture sinning?
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