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Insanity and Tyranny at the End of Humanity

 
 
 
for the rotten warlords holding our world hostage
 
"Songs of the Ironwood"
 
When the only way to claim "supremacy"
is shutting down the phone systems
turning off internet connections
arresting your opposition
rounding up journalists
closing down newspapers
killing demonstrators
 
then this is no public office but tyranny
a temporary fraternal insanity
in which death violence and terror
occupy the social sphere as survival
while your people hide truth or risk all
listening to your lies repeated daily
praying for prisoners and mourning
in the shadows of your wars
 
centuries of suffering toxic layers of lies
your king's insanity seeping into our cells
surviving your wargods of vengeance and evil
believing one day we will heal our wounds
all the dead innocence to re-remember
breaking down your barriers and histories
setting priesthoods and prisoners free
 
a new world rises around you now
people watching talking twittering filming
documenting your every move telling the truth
getting around your chokeholds crying out
for the future for accountability for God
for we know that freedom humanity nature
wisdom truth love will win this time
no matter how you try to kill the inevitable
 
so broadcast your monologue and insane claims
twist and torture the world with your threats
it's all being recorded you are now on trial
everyone can see through your fraud your weakness
when a leader must beat and kill to rule his state
then he is a bully a tyrant a criminal
his claim to supremacy will be deemed lunacy
and be buried amongst his broken weapons
 
angels heroes miracles dreams poets are all for our world
which you are against you see you are now naked
no uniforms or raging propaganda to cover you
millions of fingers now poke at your extremities
probe into your brain shout into your face
as all criminals of course deserve shame
so you will be served by our magical story
which you should know ends badly for you
 

Briarson Z. Booneestomp, X.O.
"Songs of the Ironwood"
Goddess Planet Rescue
http://Bombshelter.org
 
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and
love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time
they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it,  ALWAYS."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
 
 
Breakdown at the Barbed-Wire Factory
 
(For Primo Levi)
 
No more fathers weeping behind hidden hands
No more glory for the sake of secret agendas
No more giving soul to an empire of false profits
No more whimpering simpering cowering conceding
No more going to hell quietly under guard of night
 
No more false hopes and dreams cramped down by fear
No more madness hatching from pickled brains of boys
No more bruises kept under clothes from the wide world
No more whispers of revolution hushed by established order
No more business as usual on the graves of dashed heroes
 
No more poisons squeezed within walls of hardened hearts
No more squirming pestilence passed by wicked old men
No more war and while we're at it no more banking on bombs
No more enforcement of memories of death honing weapons
No more saluting flags or symbols for the cause of whatever
 
No more stupidity in the sense of stooges begging a clue
No more no more no more as the old black Raven quivvers
"Never more, I Implore! living lame on half a lobe"
Children chant "Opening eyes to tomorrow's fire...
Holding to heart the worth of our world" from rooftops
 

Briarson Z. Booneestomp, X.O.
"Lurking the Apocalypse: Escape from LuckyLand"
http://Bombshelter.org
 

 It was the last days of Empire, and all the clocks had been smashed.
 Citizens and agrarians alike trampled down the barbed-wire and set out their solar-powered networks. All the lying, corrupted, murderous warlords and their thugmasters have been exposed for all the world to witness, on rotten stacks of skeletons numbering in the millions.
 
 You "masters of war" with your missiles, militaries, prison camps, death machinery, spying eyes in the sky-- your days are done. You are a pestilent infection on the human body; you are putrifying old propaganda and superman myths; your creeping death-programming and torturous methods are withering now into scars on our reawakened humanity.
 
 From the war profiteering Bush and CIA assassins who seized the USA under Reagan, to the Orwellian military fetishists in North Korea and Burma, to the brutalizing theocrats murdering their own people in Iran and in the terror-plagued mountains of Asia, as well as the poisonous proxy-players and arms merchants of Russia, ruled by KGB and criminal organizations, while the Red Army continues to round up anyone who dares to challenge "state sanctioned reality." All of you guys. Suffering from testosterone poisoning and delusions of dominance. Your plugs are being pulled, like permanently.
 
 Hear ye, hear ye, you the "Supreme Councils" and Parliaments, Presidencies, Congresses, dictators, warlords, Popes and Ayatollahs, Generals and Admirals, are hereby required to appear before your victims and imprisoned populations to apologize and immediately allow for a CULTURAL REVOLUTION. You will find your children will no longer obey your lies and threats, your faces will no longer hide your shame, your souls will be bared before the eyes of the world. A new human mental sphere is surrounding you now, you have no place left to hide, your prisons are overflowing. It is legally and morally incumbent upon those who claim power to allow for all evidence of the past century of warcrimes be heard before the councils of the world.
 
 We will Twitter you down. We'll hack your core reality. Text by text, library by library, hardrive to hardrive, our millions of blazing minds outwiegh your petty "authority" millions to one, you see? It no longer serves humanity to rule by terror, torture and murder-- in fact these crimes must be halted, your debt must be charged. Hereafter, the rulers and media moguls are being measured in minutely documented increments. What is it that Kim Jong Il or other "Supreme Leaders" believe they are getting away with, what is their demand of the world as a whole. Like a hostage situation, their guns and missiles are now aimed at all of our heads.
 
 Take notice: this is not only a global cultural revolution, a liberation of women, an uprising of awakened minds and blazing hearts-- it is an evolutionary leap into collective consciousness. Now where will you hide from that? Already we have you surrounded. Come out with your hands on your head.
 
 Terra Nova, Second Botanical Officer
 Planetary Protection Corps Collective, EarthBase OMEGA
 
http://CosmoCorps.org
 
Power, like a desolating pestilence,
Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience,
Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,
Makes slaves of men, and, of the human frame,
A mechanized automaton.
                        Percy Bysshe Shelley
 

 

David Bromwich: Iran Was an Easier Enemy Before We Saw Their Faces

All vicarious politics is sick -- the more eager, excited, and fraternal, the more prone to self-deception.
 
MoveOn Joins with Avaaz to Support Iranian Resistors

The Iranian people's courage in the face of brutal repression has been inspiring.

But the situation is getting worse. The Iranian regime has begun a violent crackdown against the protesters—including hundreds of arrests and a number of deaths.

Now, it's crucial that the Iranian regime knows that the world is watching and that they must stop their violent repression of peaceful dissent. 

So our friends at Avaaz—a global MoveOn-type organization—have asked people all over the world to stand with the Iranian protesters. Avaaz is aiming for 1 million signatures worldwide and is going to deliver this message of solidarity to other governments, concentrating on the countries with the most influence over Iran's regime. Can you add your name?

http://civ.moveon.org/irancrackdown/?id=16437-5653055-5gaNPMx&t=1

A clear message from people all over the world can help put pressure on the Iranian regime to stop the violence. Other Muslim countries in the region and key trading partners like China and Turkey have been mostly silent since the election, but a worldwide outpouring of support can convince them to take action.

Involvement by the American government could be used by the Iranian regime as an excuse to crack down further. But if we, as individuals, join with folks around the world, we can help create a global outcry. The petition will be delivered directly to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, the Non-Aligned Movement, the E.U., and the U.N. to show them that the world wants them to act.

Iranians have shown that regular people, using new technologies like Twitter and Facebook, can have a profound impact on world affairs. As they face enormous danger to stand up for democracy and freedom of speech, we should stand with them. Can you add your voice to the chorus of people calling for an end to the violence?

http://civ.moveon.org/irancrackdown/?id=16437-5653055-5gaNPMx&t=2

Thanks for all you do.

–Justin, Stephen, Laura, Daniel and the rest of the team

P.S. To show your support for the Iranian people, you can also print out this sign and put it in your window.

http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51527&id=16437-5653055-5gaNPMx&t=3

 

 

 

 

         

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