[Newspoetry] Fw: Grand Old Psychosis: Terrorism

[Donald L Emerick]

Grand Old Psychosis: Terrorism

Bush exploits fear and hatred,
to stroke his political position
the way Southern Society did it,
for many long decades of terror,
where codewords designate fear,
which bases itself upon no reality,
as hatred enforces its boundaries,
suppresses all just semblances,
and distorts all efforts at change.

Southern racial terrorism ended
when we re-invaded the South,
to overcome peacefully by law
rebel regimes of an axis of evil
between Mississippi, Alabama,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia,
Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana,
Maryland, Florida, NS Carolina.

A lesson of modern dictatorships:
an armed revolution is impossible.
The police state apparatus is strong.
Even if it is also brutally erroneous,
catching far too many false positives,
it misses almost no true negatives.
Thus, even if internal revolution rises,
the domestic balance of strong arms
has shifted to favor greatly the state,
for technology costs favor the state:
rifles can not defeat armored tanks.
(The Second Amendment is silly,
because it is wholly antiquated.)

There is a false consciousness
to all such xenophobic tyranny:
it disguises itself as proper kinds
of (inter)national law and order.
Talkshows replay hatred and fear,
twenty-four seven, three sixty-five,
for darkness has a bottomless pit,
uncut by any political pendulums.

Yet, be not blind to enemy wiles:
the Bush administration thrives
and feeds upon fear and hatred,
because its kind of class system
exploits and abuses the many,
by perpetuating its privileged few.

One sees patriotic lynch mobs,
how they still burn their crosses,
on the lawns of moral dissenters,
toss bricks through glass windows,
fire warning shots at glass homes,
or rough up any who cross them,
who oppose their hidden councils,
their secret government of order.

Oh, the South was democratic;
it held elections quite regularly.
The will of people under tyranny
is as relevant as a miscellany.
Bush proposes no democracy,
not for the wide world in general.
He democratizes small places,
so they can decide small things,
like policing streets and sewers,
or placing some stop'n'go signs.
Democracy is okay, says Bush,
if we don't let it get out of hand.

thanks for listening,
Donald L Emerick
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