Tag Archives: Politics

Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide

The Power Of The Lie So you are seeking power and fameControl of the herdStatus in the hierarchyThe method is simpleDecide what the masses desireThen boldly, flamboyantly, unequivocally achieve itNot reallyOnly with wordsTell the biggest lies your conspiring mind allowsTo fulfil your own wishesShout them from the tree topsBellow soulfully what seems to be trueContinue reading “Always Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide”

Thoughts On Our Troubled Times

All Blood Is Red Immigrants are a blightHated with cruel spiteDescribed with derisionOften sent to prisonBut all blood is red Take your foreigners awayThey bring us dismayAnd are so unlike usDifferences strike usBut all blood is red Note that political tacticianTotally without contritionWho claimed they eat dogs and catsStopping just short of ratsBut all bloodContinue reading “Thoughts On Our Troubled Times”

Some Way-out Definitions

Fascist You will always know himAs you’ll be just below himHe’ll pose as your friendYour troubles to mendPromising reformBeyond the normHe’ll prophesy changeTo rearrangeThe shape of a sham dystopiaThat depends on your myopiaHe will foretellYour relief from HellIf his wisdom you note for himAnd then blindly vote for himHe’ll be ostensibly religiousDeclaring God prestigiousAnd thenContinue reading “Some Way-out Definitions”

For pity is the virtue of the law

Image: Lady Justice – William Cho/Creative Commons For pity is the virtue of the law,  And none but tyrants use it cruelly. Shakespeare, Timon of Athens,  Alcibiades, 3.5.10 Once upon a time a political leader said: “No one is above the law in this country…There is a process to be followed.” I choose here to forego theContinue reading “For pity is the virtue of the law”