Every single day people are being murdered by government forces. They are being killed for their political views, for belonging to a particular community, or simply for being poor. Every day, too, people seized by government agents are facing another form of elimination when they vanish into secret custody as if they never existed. They "disappear." Millions of men, women, and children have suffered such fates since the 1960s - the victims not of wars between nations, but of deliberate government policies of repression. Their deaths or "disappearances" were ordered or condoned by state officials, the very people entrusted to protect their lives and liberty.

-- Amnesty International in Getting Away with Murder: Political Killings and "Disappearances" in the 1990s, © 1993, pg. 1.

Woke up at night
And I flicked the switch
The world turned black; my eyes went off
I began to see

I saw his face
Indifferent and mad
Blood freely flowed; spurts out the mouth
Saying now's the time - (to cut your)

Jugular Vein Jugular Vein
Heart Pumps
Jugular Vein Jugular Vein
Blood flows
Jugular Vein Jugular Vein
Screams drown
Jugular Vein Jugular Vein

I was confused
He turned on the news
Anchors blabbing shit; where's Chomsky now?
As the pictures rushed through

Little children screaming
The girls and women raped
All men are dead except of course
For the bloody man's friends (as they were)
Killing Again Killing Again
Cleansing
Killing Again Killing Again
Homeland
Killing Again Killing Again
Nation
Killing Again Killing Again

But no one is listening
Even you that are here
Convinced we can't do anything
We continue to drift

But that is not true
Still they all proceed
Banking on the apathy all around
For their grisly deeds
(while they are)

Killing Again Killing Again
Cutting
Jugular Vein Jugular Vein
Nightmare
Killing Again Killing Again
And they said
Never Again Never Again?

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"...Carnivore ... gives the FBI access to the communications of hundreds, if not thousands, of innocent Internet users."

-- David Sobel, General Counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, 21 November 2000 press release.

Liars for Destruction
Preachers for Destruction
Cowards for Destruction
Bullies for Destruction

Bombing sniping shattering betraying
Raping cheating stealing bleeding

Liars for Destruction
Preachers for Destruction
Cowards for Destruction
Bullies for Destruction

Bombing sniping shattering betraying
raping cheating stealing bleeding

What have we here? Nightmare resembling
Fucked up fiction of 1984
Brave New World, Brazil revision
Where do you think we're going with this?

Congress caves in - trying to sell off rights
Dumbass Tom Ridge - he don't understand rights
Goering would be proud - Carnivore smacking lips
Woolsey and Baker - ain't it time to retire?

You
Must
Shut the Fuck UP

"The threat left by Digna Ochoa's killers leaves no doubt that Digna Ochoa was killed because of her human rights work. Her killing is the act of those seeking to evade prosecution by silencing human rights defenders who expose the perpetrators of human rights violations and insist that the authorities ensure they are brought to justice."

-- Amnesty International Human Rights Defenders Network Action, 20 October 2001

Stupid motherfuckers - lying sacks of shit
Killing innocence - pissing on graves
Smile for the cameras - call it suicide
No way to hide your mountain of lies!

Digna Ochoa: Presente!
Eduardo Umaña: Presente!
Padre Alcides: Presente!
Sr. Gonzalez: Presente!

Stupid li'l' insects - cobardes de mierda
Coming with guns - attacking the unarmed
Hiding your face - living a lie
No way to hide your mountain of lies!

Digna Ochoa: Presente!
Eduardo Umaña: Presente!
Padre Alcides: Presente!
Sr. Gonzalez: Presente!

Imbeciles enanos - digan que ganaron?
Creen que mataron pero resuscitaron!
Y se desgastaron - imbeciles mentiras
No way to hide your mountain of lies!

Digna Ochoa: Presente!
Eduardo Umaña: Presente!
Padre Alcides: Presente!
Sr. Gonzalez: Presente!

Whatcha see when you look in her eyes?
Just another woman you wanna fuck?
Whatcha see when you look in their eyes?
Customers and suckers you're ready to con?
Whatcha see when you turn out the light?
Think it's Lord Jesus you're seeing smile?
Are you so sure that your thinking's right?
Maybe just maybe you'll lead a collapse?

She doesn't know you're waiting
To screw her and no more
Pretend to really love her
but all you want is more

Drive your fucking guzzler
You think the sky's the limit
Don't think about the planet
Our city is sinking

You go on bombing countries
And starving all their people
Don't think about the price tag
Your people are screaming!

But you're so fucking wrong
World's catching up to you
Used to running roughshod
You'll pay your dues
You think you're fucking clever
You think you know the score
Got news for you budroe
Game's over - ya gotta go!

Hey asshole:
You're lightweight
Don't screw us
No mandate

"The world will be an emptier, lonelier place. Still, we humans can look forward to sharing the future with a fair number of beetles, tapeworms, fungi, tarweeds, mollusks, and mites. Dandelions and silverfish are also a good bet."

-- David Quammen, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, © 1997 Touchstone, NY, NY pp. 528-529.

Globalization, you can see
Rupert Murdoch on all TVs
KFC and Taco Bells
The world's for sale if you can pay

And the boys at the IMF
The World Bank, it's all there!
OPIC, ExIm, and IFI
Corporate welfare done globalize
Done globalize

We're running for shelter
The bulldozers coming
They're smashing our welfare
Our freedoms our forests

They paid for the White House,
The Kremlin, the Reichstag
They speak the same language:
Without money you're nothing

Then assholes in Congress
Equate freedom with money
They're servants of power
Of riches, of cowards
Of riches, of cowards
Of riches, of cowards

With help from the media
And newscasts for fatcats
The chimp in the White House
Sold us into tax cuts

And what about Enron?
What this Haliburton?
It's business as usual!
It's corporate bamboozle

So people are marching
And windows are smashing
They know that this system
is trickle down poison!
trickle down poison!
trickle down poison!

…[O]n April 21, 1994, the [United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda,]UNAMIR commander, Major General Dallaire, declared that with just five thousand well-equipped soldiers and a free hand to fight Hutu power, he could bring the genocide to a rapid halt… Yet, on the same day, the UN Security Council passed a resolution that slashed the UNAMIR force by ninety percent… The desertion of Rwanda by the UN force was Hutu Power's greatest diplomatic victory to date, and it can be credited almost single-handedly to the United States… [T]he Clinton Administration's ambassador to the UN, Madeleine Albright, opposed leaving even the skeleton crew of two hundred seventy in Rwanda.

-- Philip Gourevitch in We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda. Pg. 150, © 1998. About 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsi, were systematically killed by Hutu genocidaires in 100 days in 1994.

Even though we said we were helping
What we did was no good
Even though we tried to be clever
Tutsis all got screwed
Even though we thought we were careful
We just tightened the noose
Even though I thought we learned something
That is far from the truth

Moral cowards, egos, hypocrites
Hiding behind a mask of outrage

Definitions, word games, and syntax
Brought the world an evil result

Don't you think it's time to account for
All the info we knew
Don't you think it's time to confront what
We all failed to do
Don't you think it's time to stop saying
We don't know what to do
Don't you think it's time to transform what
Human rights groups do

Doesn't help compassion's an industry
Porno-misery Marketing ploys

Direct mail, same kind of gimmicks that
Sells the products on the TV

"Our Dear Leader, Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, How are you? We wish you to be strong in all these problems we are facing. We wish to inform you that we have heard that tomorrow we will be killed with our families. We therefore request you to intervene on our behalf…"

And the Pastor did nothing
And Albright did "nothing"
And the U.S. did "nothing"
So the U.N. did "nothing"

So we all watched
And they all died
For what?
Genocide

"'The American citizen's first importance to his country," declared a Muncie newspaper [in 1928], "is no longer that of a citizen but that of a consumer.'"

-- James Foner in The Story of American Freedom, © 1998, pg. 151.

I live in a dream
That's not my own
And all the silly things
I'd like to own
Some ideals
Come straight out of TV ads
I'm always so caught up
Caught in the latest fads

You want as many possessions
As you can possess
You want so many possessions
You're becoming possessed

Gucci, Glass by Tiffany
The things you buy won't set you free
Calvin Klein, Riunite on Ice
Your lifestyle has more style than life
Robert Palmer on CD
Don't you see the trap you're in
Plenty of things to take to your tomb
You're not a consumer- you're being consumed

Cause I'm trapped in this dream
That's not my own
And all these useless things
I can't help but own
My behavior
Designed by those TV ads
Is all designed
To turn my brain into crap

I want as many possessions
As I can possess
I want so many possessions
I'm becoming possessed

…the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious; and for nearly all purposes human sacrifice is the best. The truly great Magician will be able to use his own blood, or possibly that of a disciple, and that without sacrificing the physical life irrevocably… There is a Magical Operation of maximum importance: the Initiation of a New Aeon. When it becomes necessary to utter a Word, the whole Planet must be bathed in blood…" Emphasis his.

-- Aleister Crowley in Magick in Theory and Practice, © 1976, Dover Publications, pg. 96.

Death chambers that are run by oil
Death chambers that are run by docs
Death chambers for politics
Soundbite human sacrifice

If crime is truly the reason
you like killing hundreds of people
denying but a basic fact
poor here are just really fucked

Eye for an eye
Oh say can you fear?
For you we decree
Blind Justice!

Eye for an eye
Oh say what you see?
For you we decree
Blind Justice!

Eye for an eye
Oh cruel can you see?
For you we decree
Blind Justice!

Eye for an eye
Insane can you see?
For you we decree
Blind Justice!

Self righteous in condemnation
Want criminals outta the nation
Think justice works real fine?
Now's the time - take a peek inside:

Your lawyer is drunk and asleep
Loses papers, forgets on appeal
Judge hates you and lawyers agree
with the jury that you're guilty as shit

DA's facing tough re-election
public's clamoring for salvation
frightened to death about violent crime
which bubbleheads fan on fucking prime time

Insist Feds have too much
Want government off your back
words really hard to believe
When you make sure the fucking state kills

Execution, turn the switch
The crushing, of your spine
Boiling, eyes and blood
Your blood comes gushing out through your mouth

Desperation - out of time
Execution equals murder
Execution is fucking murder

"And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

-- The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats, 1916.

Open your eyes
Lock down disease
Is creeping over me

Ignoring the past
we're doom to repeat
don't turn on your TV

Looking for news
but not from a screen
The nausea envelops me

The bubbleheads
repeating their swill
don't know how to resist

And where is our reason
To cope with this season?
Eternal recurrence
Can't we stop this vision?

Seeing the polls
I find them all wrong
The answers I don't know

But what do I see
A great shopping spree
Unfolding before me

They say it's all over
It's all been decided
Seattle's come to pass

But what will you find
The end of the line
Except for broken lives

And where is our reason
To cope with this season?
Eternal recurrence
Can't we stop this vision?

But nobody's home or
Minding the store
Life slipped through the back door

Gouging my eyes
With crude broken glass
I can't escape the past

It never existed
I did not know
The channels are one voice

Increasing the horror
and calling for war
despite what they all know

"Noriega was also fond of Old Parr Scotch. We drank a lot of Scotch together and always got along rather well."

-- Duane "Dewey" Clarridge, former Chief of Latin American Division of the CIA in A Spy for all Seasons, p.237, © 1997. Clarridge was indicted on seven felony counts - six for making false statements to Congress and one to the Tower Commission. Pardoned by Bush Sr. on December 24, 1992, in one of the biggest cover-ups in recent history.

Read about Special Forces activity in Iraq at Between The Lines:
http://www.btlonline.org/btl010904.html#1hed

Do you remember that
War that we fought that was
Never declared by Congress that was
Instigated by the CIA and we
Used our Special Forces who worked with
Death Squads that
Tortured to death tons of innocent people and
Turned a drug profit?
Does it sound familiar?

"There is no horror, no cruelty, sacrilege, or perjury, no imposture, no infamous transaction, no cynical robbery, no bold plunder or shabby betrayal that has not been or is not daily being perpetrated by the representatives of the states, under no other pretext than those elastic words, so convenient and yet so terrible: 'for reasons of state.'"

- - Michael Bakunin, "Rousseau's Theory of the State", in Reasoned Proposal to the Central Committee of the League for Peace and Freedom, presented in 1867.

It's a metaphor.

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Code Red
Temperature Rising
Microbes mutating
Madcows rampaging

What to do -- Congress sleep at the wheel?
Corporations fed last meal
What to do -- erosion of freedom?
National security trumping reason
What to do -- can't trust what you eat?
Corporations use brains as feed
What to do - a strike at the heart?
Apocalypse Now for you and I

"Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules."

-- James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science, 1987



Running the country on stolen time
The Court has decide your vote don't count
Legions of lawyers confusing us more
But apathy won out, that's the final score

Finding ego maniacs in every which camp
Gotta resist! Gotta resist!
Even in places where rights are the norm
Gotta resist! Gotta resist!
I thought I knew something -- it was only a dream
Gotta resist! Gotta resist!
That don't mean I'll sit here and drift on to sleep
Gotta resist! Gotta resist!

Which way to go? Gotta resist!
Which way to go? Gotta resist!
Which way to go? Gotta resist!
Which way to go? Gotta resist!

Did you see something good on TV?
Sharing all viewpoints objectively?
Establishment people repeating their script?
Rewarded for their work against you and me

But one thing's for certain we gotta resist
Gotta resist! Gotta resist!
Against our own urges to sit lazily
Gotta resist! Gotta resist!
For mindless rebellion feeds into their needs
Gotta resist! Gotta resist!
Allowing repression to crush happily
Gotta resist! Gotta resist!

Which way to go? Gotta resist!
Which way to go? Gotta resist!
Which way to go? Gotta resist!
Which way to go? Gotta resist!

If we don't start planning and we don't start doing
The party is over; our freedom our power
If we don't engage all, and I mean all options
We're wasting our time, giving others our power

A foundation freedom
no matter how faulty
better than nothing
strengthens our forces

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"In the last six months, the Pentagon has ordered 9,640 body bags, but they are not immediately headed for the Persian Gulf. "Right now, we're just replenishing supplies" in military warehouses, said Frank Johnson, a spokesman for the Defense Supply Center in Philadelphia. "It's not necessarily an indication of things to come."

The military shuns the term body bag, which gained widespread usage during the Vietnam War, when 58,000 American military personnel died. Instead, the military began calling them "human remains pouches" during the 1991 Persian Gulf war. They are made of vinyl and cost the government about $38 a pouch."

-- SYDNEY P. FREEDBERG, ST. PETERSBURG TIMES.

Don't you know?
The raging wars
Don't you know?
are in our name
Don't you know?
We're paying for
Don't you know?
Not keeping score?

Don't you know?
The suicide crimes
Don't you know?
are in reaction
Don't you know?
When they feel cornered
Now we know
How they strike back!

Better question what they tell us
Better question Congressmen
Cause payback's really Hell
For wars we wage

Better tell them to reverse course
They want more of the same
Don't really want to see more
Body bags
Body bags
Body bags

Don't you know?
Lies on TV
Don't you know?
It's infotainment
Don't you know?
It's quite misleading
Don't you know
And it just hurt us

Don't you know?
Ignorance ain't bliss
Don't you know?
What we just witnessed
Don't you know?
The end of peace?
Now we know
A new cold war

The options are all shrinking
Chimps who steal elections
Made selfishness a virtue
And crime enshrine

Meantime sabers rattling
Canaries are all dying
An apocalyptic saga
Before our eyes
For our eyes
Body bags
Body bags --

Don't you know!

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"But historically, at times of national stress -- real or imagined -- First Amendment rights come under enormous pressure... The First Amendment exists precisely to protect the most offensive and controversial speech from government suppression."

-- American Civil Liberties Union, www.aclu.org

We shall not, we shall not be moved
We shall not, we shall not be moved
Just like a tree that's standing by the water
We shall not be moved!

Defend the first amendment
We shall not be moved!
Defend the Bill of Rights!
We shall not be moved!
Just like a tree that's standing by the water
We shall not be moved!

So stop the riot police
We shall not be moved!
And put away their tear gas!
We shall not be moved!
Just like a tree that's standing by the water
We shall not be moved!

We shall not, we shall not be moved
We shall not, we shall not be moved
Just like a tree that's standing by the water
We shall never be moved!

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"What is chilling, however, is how brilliantly Johnson understood in 1965 -- not '68 but '65 -- the tragedy that was about to unfold. On the secret tapes, he privately predicts that the Senate and the American people will abandon his war… He predicts America will lose in Vietnam, that the Viet Cong will fight on and on."

-- Michael Beschloss, author and presidential historian, in "LBJ's Secret War" in the Washington Post, Saturday, December 1, 2001; Page A25, © 2001.

1-2-3-4
We don't want your racist war!
5-6-7-8
We don't want to radiate?
Hell no, we won't go
We won't fight your dirty war
Hell no, we won't die
Go and die for the CIA
Money for jobs - not war!
Time to stop this fucking war
Money for jobs - not war!
Time to stop this fucking war
1-2-3-4
Do you want to go to war?
5-6-7-8
Then do away with the CIA!

Georgie Georgie monkey boy
Our boys aren't your fucking toys
Georgie Georgie monkey boy
Our boys aren't your fucking toys
CNN: no good
Time to get back to real news
CNN: no good
Time to get back to real news
1-2-3-4
Do you want to go to war?
5-6-7-8
Then do away with the CIA!

They say they want a war
They say they know the score
They say that might makes right
Do they like genocide?

They don't get it: They don't get it - fuck war!

Not for me.

Not for us.

Fuck war.

Rezo a Dios - para matar

Esta vida es una lucha

Pido a Dios - puntería

Esta vida es una lucha

Rezo a Dios - pa' escapar

Esta vida es una lucha

Que vamos hacer? No hay trabajo!
No hay trabajo? No hay dinero!
No hay dinero? No hay comida!
Esta vida es injusticia!

Busquemos la salida!

Well, it's not just about Enron. And good people do the wrong thing, all the time.

In the name of profits
and profiteers
They're raping land
and building streets

In the name of profits
and progress too
They're stealing secrets
from the bare feet

They're pirates
and profiteers!

In the name of profits
and more TV
They're twisting facts
ignoring pleas

In the name of profits
and SUVs
They're pumping poison
to the atmosphere

They're pirates
and profiteers

They're here today,
we're gone tomorrow

Actually, this was originally about a completely different George, a fictional one.





They scramble for cover by shopping at Wal-mart
Blow-dried reporters fawn over alerts

Driving up ratings while scaring the public
TV whitewashes war into a game

What they don't show you: the mangled up children,
The twisted out metal that ripped through their skulls.

TV shows war games and tumbling statues,
Happy young families saluting the flag.

I want to wake up on the beach
I want to wake up on the beach

Don't want perpetual war, don't want pre-emptive strikes
Don't want clandestine killings as no might makes right

Don't want no covert ops, don't want more frankensteins
No Pax Americana imposed by might makes right

The schools are all crumbling, while mayors push stadiums
kids have no parents - 2 million in jail

Feigning surprise when the poor turn to crime
Some hopeless downtrodden finds joy in a gun

Then children's smashed faces, the littering fingers,
The brain splattered sidewalk 'neath TV news shoes

I want to wake up on the beach
I want to wake up on the beach

Don't want no stupid stadiums; don't want a puppet mayor
Don't want an underclass or 2 mil behind the bars

Don't want perpetual war, don't want no drive-by crime
Don't want police state nor 2 mil behind the bars

Wake Up!!

Why don't you wake up?

Edward Fischer
Porter-Gaud School
Charleston, SC




It's high school,
lots of fun
Oh look out!
what the fuck?

Invited me over -
thought that was nice
Had no idea -
your life was a lie
Fell into the trap -
into the night
No longer a child- forever outside

Got this black tar in me!

Slow motion nightmare - had no control
Just like a puppet -
I see it unfold
Modern day monster - wish you were dead
Mind is in turmoil -
But you laugh instead

Got this black tar in me!

Now it's college,
Lots of fun!
Must forget,
must get drunk!

No way to clean -
what you left inside
Wanna stop thinking -
no place to hide
Intimate moments became living hell
Reliving our contact, you're inside my head

Got this black tar in me!

Life had some mercy,
the gift of time
Washed some away, could finally cry
Don't wanna suffer, talking will help
Although it's hard,
I'll be free instead

Got this black tar in me!

Me dices que quieres vivir en paz.
Me dices que quieres tranquilidad.
Me dices te gusta la libertad.
Entonces, no entiendo, porque dirás:

"Lucha! Lucha! Lucha! Lucha!"
Para la paz?
"Lucha! Lucha! Lucha! Lucha!"
Tranquilidad?
"Lucha! Lucha! Lucha! Lucha!"
Con que final?
"Lucha! Lucha! Lucha! Lucha!"
Qué ganarás?

Me dices que quieres vivir en paz.
Me dices que hay que ajusticiar.
Me dices que hay que asesinar.
Tu crees que la paz la lograrás?
[con la]

"Lucha! Lucha! Lucha! Lucha!"
Para la paz?
"Lucha! Lucha! Lucha! Lucha!"
Tranquilidad?
"Lucha! Lucha! Lucha! Lucha!"
Con que final?
"Lucha! Lucha! Lucha! Lucha!"
Qué ganarás?

Tu me dices lo que quieres
es lograr la paz
Pero explicas que se logra
con las armas ya

Entra rabia, entra el odio
La venganza ya
Ganas viudas, mas dolor y
sufrimiento acá

Subversivos, criminales
Violadores, mal!
Deja a un lado estos nombres
No te ayudarán

Es dificil, trabajoso,
hay que callar y escuchar:
Todo bueno lo logramos
con el dialogar!

Vamos juntos
como hermanos
Vamos juntos
como hermanos

La guerra?
No, la guerra,
No, la guerra,
No, la guerra, No
Hay que rechazar!

Lying is "legal" and so are the killings
You properly frame'em enshrine 'em in law

National security Justifications
Driven by fear, accepting the wrong.

Isn't it time we change things?
Do we look for something new?
Does history have some lessons?
Perhaps we ought to shift our views?

"Us vs. them" That's how we frame things
Winners and Losers Will that ever end?
Look at the game board! Die are all loaded.
Why then insist on playing that game?

How do we lose this game board?
How do we leave the shell game?
Marching on the same old treadmill.
Screaming at the wrongs of "them."

We must change the words we have
We must change the words we think
We must change the words we say
And what we do.

An elder once asked me Where is Your Love?
Made me realize I had lots of work.

An Abbot then told me it'd all be cosmetic
Till we realize what we need is love.

We need a different game board:
I know that it's really there.
Shifting antagonism. Transformación.

In Greenville county, South Carolina,
Young people out on a Friday night
Telling others they'll go to hell
Just because they don't like Bob Jones?

Bible Belt -Is that your bible?
Bible Belt - condoning hatred?

In the town o' Murphy, North Carolina,
people are good and God-fearin'
yet a killer finds they sympathize:
"why he's pro-life; he kills for God!"

Bible Belt - Is that your bible?
Bible Belt - condoning violence?

Bible Belt - Is that your bible?
Bible Belt - condoning murder?

Bible Belt - must be a weird bible
Bible Belt - or bad interpretation?
Bible Belt - there must be a reason
Bible Belt - fundamental mistakes

Let's see if I've got this straight:
Originally spoken in Aramaic
Handed down orally for decades
Many versions written in Greek
Translated into Latin about 400 A.D.
Copied by hand for 1000 years
English translations for the next 700
- Forget hermeneutics?
You're telling me you know exactly what was meant?
I don't theeenk so.

Now in this here country,
the U.S. of A.
Good folk say:
"God Bless You"
But they don't mind invading countries,
inflicting suffering while smiling from pews

Bible Belt - Is that your bible?
Bible Belt - condoning warfare?

Bible Belt - just because
Bible Belt - God's on your side
Bible Belt - it doesn't follow
Bible Belt - you're on God's side

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Read the DRUG WAR BLOG

Oh say can you see?
* Our nation lives in fear.
Twisted health into a war,
TREAT THE SICK LIKE DYING DOGS.

How convenient
to forget
about the "laws"
of supply and demand.

Increase profits,
Healthy coffers,
What you get
is more of the same.

Filling up the nations jails. (Drug War - Lock 'em up)
Jailing rates tops in the world! (Drug War - Set 'em straight)
Fueling conflict overseas. (Drug War - Let 'em rot)
* A soundbite: all they seek (Drug War - State of Hate)

How convenient
To ignore
When the score
Shows we've got nought

Healthy markets
For war profits - SIKORSKY!!
What they want
Is more & more & more &…

Hearing from all walks of life: (Drug War - Drug War)
* No sense to fuel the strife!
Better ways to money spend: (Drug War will never end)
* Don't fill the nation's jails!

Don't you see it metastasize? (Drug War is a lie)
It just struck the bill of rights!
* Tell me: what will you do? (Drug War will come for you)
Where art thou Home of the Brave?
Just Say No!

"The crisis in [the West Bank city of ]Hebron... has at its core a disregard for human rights and international humanitarian law... including excessive use of force by IDF [Israeli Defense Forces] soldiers against unarmed Palestinian demonstrators; unlawful killings by IDF soldiers; unacknowledged assassinations of suspected Palestinian militants; attacks by Palestinian gunmen directed against Israeli civilians...."

-- Human Rights Watch in CENTER OF THE STORM: A Case Study of Human Rights Abuses in Hebron District, April 2001

Crisis in the Middle East
Israel can do no wrong
Thieves of land and settlers
Shooting into Arab mosques

We pretend to take no side
But we all know that's a lie
Don't you dare start asking why
Congress playing with AIPAC

Then the suiciders strike
Horror dancing in the streets
Chimp man saying we must war
Afghanistan equals Vietnam