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The door stands open -
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Across lines, invisible hands are held, golden streamers building in the night.
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Alone, the possibilities are enormous.
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Step outside and parasites, deprived of their meat, wait to suck on tiring flesh,
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Unending statistics that fatten leaders, prisoners of their morality.
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Afraid of death, we can not save ourselves.
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To breathe is not enough.
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Yes sir, I Will.
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When you woke this morning you looked so rocky-eyed,
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Blue and white normally, but strange ringed like that in black.
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It doesn't get much better, your voice can get just ripped up shouting in vain,
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Maybe someone hears what you say, but you're still on your own at night.
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You've got to make such a noise to understand the silence,
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Screaming like a jackass, ringing ears so you can't hear the silence
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Even when it's there. Like the wind seen from the window,
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Seeing it but not being touched by it.
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Words sometimes don't seem to mean much;
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Of anyone we've used more that most.
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Feelings from the heart that have been distorted and mocked,
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Thrown around in the spectacle, the grand social circus.
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Up against the rows of grey robots who control our lives
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The things we have to offer sometimes seem so frail.
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As they plan destruction and gain respectability,
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We offer our creativity and are made outcasts.
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We didn't expect to find ourselves playing this part,
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We were concerned with ideas, not rock and roll,
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But we can't avoid that arena,
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It's become a part of us even if we don't understand it.
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In attempts to moderate they ask why we don't write love songs.
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What is it that we sing then?
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Our love of life is total, everything we do is an expression of that,
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Everything that we write is a love song.
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We look for alternatives,
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But the enormous power of the media makes it so difficult
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To establish foundations. Their lies and distortions are so extreme
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That everything becomes poisoned and corrupted.
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We can become media personalities, but it is always on their terms.
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We're tired of living up to other people's expectations when our own are so much higher.
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Intelligence seems so easily dismissed when it doesn't conform to mainstream values.
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Lennon said "They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool",
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He was right. Social intelligence merely requires agreement and compromise.
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The boundaries are becoming narrower as the State becomes more paranoid.
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Under authoritarian rule, conformity becomes the only security.
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Fear is a powerful weapon against human development.
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Cowering in our temples of self there's little chance of change;
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The State is aware of that. The bomb serves many functions.
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If fear of the omnipotent God is no more,
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The nuclear Father will govern with his shepherd's crook,
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Drawing his flock closer to the valley of the shadow of death.
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Those of us who stand out against the status quo
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Do so against all odds.
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We cling so closely together
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Because we have little other than ourselves.
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Critics say that it's just punk rock or that we're just naive anarchists.
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They hope to discredit us with their labels and definitions.
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Throughout history societies have condemned those who are later celebrated as heroes,
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In so many bourgeois homes Van Gogh's sunflowers radiate from the walls,
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Yet he lived in utter misery, condemned by those very same people.
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Why is it that the kind and gentle are subjected to violence and riducule?
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How is it that the small and mealy-minded have gained so much power?
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What perversion has taken place that we are governed by fools?
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We've had problems from self-appointed Gods from Bishops to MPs.
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They've tried to ban our records saying that we're a threat to decent society.
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Fuck them. I hope we are.
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What kind of depraved idiot thinks they can silence others by denying them their voice?
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For fucks sake, who are these lobotomists?
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As if walls only had one side.
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Whispered intimacies might not get through,
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But cries of anguish know no barriers.
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But how long do we shout for?
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Denied the airwaves, we trust in the wind to carry what we say.
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But sometimes we've found ourselves shouting into the wind
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When we should have been confiding in each other.
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It seems so absurd that we are denied the chance of ever being truly free.
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The terrible inequalities of the peoples of this earth
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Make freedom at best a dream, at worst an insulting privilege.
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What space is there for self-expression and personal development
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When over half the world's population is starving?
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There are so many things that might have been done,
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But rooted on this spot in the desire to find solution,
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There's little to see and feel but the sighing and dying of our world.
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But for suffering we might have been a part of it rather than apart from it.
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Making the compromises,
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Brave fronts, deceitful disguises. What did you know? What did you care?
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What did you know? What did you care?
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Turning a blind eye to the lies just to keep it all together,
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But sometimes when I'm alone like this I wonder whether it's worth it.
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Smiling and socialising.
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Endless philosophising. What did you know? What did you care?
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What did you know? What did you care?
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Surface agreements, statements of fact, trying to prove we can do it,
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But sometimes when I'm alone like this I wonder just who can see through it.
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Bargains and sacrifices.
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Cheap tricks, cheaper devices. What did you know? What did you care?
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What did you know? What did you care?
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Holding the vision, but losing our sight, endlessly searching solution,
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But sometimes when I'm alone like this I wonder how much it's just institution.
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What did you know? What did you care?
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What did you know? What did you care?
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What did you know? What did you care?
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What did you know? What did you care?
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Anarchy's become another word for 'got 10p to spare?' What did you know? What did you care?
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Another way of saying 'I'm O.K., sod you out there'. What did you know? What did you care?
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Another token tantrum to cover up the fear. What did you know? What did you care?
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Another institution, another cross to bear. What did you know? What did you care?
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etc. etc.
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Anything and everything can be so easily institutionalised,
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A poor parody of itself. Itself contained by itself.
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There's no point in just mouthing the words.
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The token tantrums just aren't enough,
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Nor is speed and weed and the Positive Creed.
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Exclusive clubs where the various tribes congratulate each other for doing fuck all
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Will achieve nothing but the strengthening of the status quo.
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Punk has spawned another rock and roll elite,
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Cheap Rotten Vicious imitations thinking they'll change their world
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With dyed hair and predictable gestures. Nouveau wankers.
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There's a thousand empty stages waiting for their empty performances,
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A thousand empty faces waiting for their empty stances.
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How many times must we hear rehashed versions of Feeding of the 5000
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By jerks whose only fuck off to the system has been one off the wrist?
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It's the Feeding of the 5 Knuckle Shuffle.
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If there was no government, wouldn't there be chaos
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Everybody running round, setting petrol bombs off?
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And if there was no police force, tell me what you'd do
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If thirty thousand rioters came running after you?
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And who would clean the sewers? Who'd mend my television?
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Wouldn't people lay about without some supervision?
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Who'd drive the fire engines? Who'd fix my video?
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If there were no prisons, well, where would robbers go?
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And what if I told you to Fxxk Off?
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What if there's no army to stop a big invasion?
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Who'd clean the bogs and sweep the floors? We'd have all immigration.
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Who'd pull the pint at the local pub? Where'd I get my fags?
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Who'd empty out my dustbins? Would I still get plastic bags?
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If there were no hospitals, and no doctors too,
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If I'd broken both my legs, where would I run to?
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If there's no medication, if there were no nurses,
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Wouldn't people die a lot? And who would drive the hearses?
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And what if I told you to Fxxk Off?
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If there were no butchers shops, what would people eat?
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You'd have everybody starving if they didn't get their meat.
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If there was no water, what would people drink?
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Who'd flush away the you-know-what? But of course MINE never stink.
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What about the children? Who'd teach them in the schools?
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Who'd make the beggers keep in line? Learn them all the rules?
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Who's tell us whitewash windows? When to take down doors?
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Tell us make a flask of tea and survive the holocaust?
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The rock and roll swindler says it's O.K. to plunder,
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So the pirates set sail to rape any ethnic culture they can plug a mike to.
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The imperialists rub their hands in glee
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As the slave-boy hunts out butt-ends in the garbage cans.
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Is it any wonder there was such sickening celebration over the Task Force
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When so called radicals work hand in hand with the ruling elite?
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Yesterday those wily creeps rejected the status quo,
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Today they smarm and charm passageways to its very heart.
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Where's the free individual in all that?
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Where's the hope and aspiration?
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Identities have become corporations,
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Social egos and media moulds,
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Scholars of ad-man's dreams. Prescribed futures;
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Must we all down aspirins and shine beneath borrowed tans?
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Are we really so dumb, so cowered into submission
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That not only are we prepared to eat shit
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We're also prepared to say thanks for the privilege?
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Why should we accept servility as a bargain for dignity?
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Why should we passively accept death as a bargain for living?
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Why accept this robbery of life? Why accept this pillage?
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For Christ's sake take up your bed and walk.
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Let the blind see end the deaf hear.
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The rights of the individual are dependent upon
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You realising your right as an individual.
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People are so easily deluded into thinking they've instrumented choice
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Where in reality they're nothing but passive observers.
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Passive observers do nothing but passively observe,
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Passively soak up creativity and say "Wow, that's me!",
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Passively soak up destruction and say "Oh no, not us, not me".
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There are those who strive for value and meaning;
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Who search for reason and purpose;
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Their efforts are negated by the passive observers.
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They spend days before the T.V. set so burned out,
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Is it any wonder they've lost all sense of vision and possibility?
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What chance does anyone have when all the spaces are filled?
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Sipping breakfast teas to the sound of Space Invaders.
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Television is today's Nuremberg.
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Bowing to its authority, they become it.
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I've seen four year old children conforming to media roles.
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Main-lining the gross theatre that will become their lives.
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The television has so dampened people's anger.
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The population is mesmerised by the flickering screen
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And the streets, where the politics of reality were once created,
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Are deserted at night and the rulers sleep secure.
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They are under no threat as long as the people are sedated.
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Those who suffer head-aches from excessive intake of electrons are prescribed valium,
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Or pay for a fix at the pub where men have to piss up the wall
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And the stench of urine lasts well into the next pint.
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Entertainment is designed to gloss over real problems
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And very often those who profess dissent only add to the deception.
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Words are banded about, but always at the whim of the puppeteer.
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Actionless sloganeering is just another Punch and Judy show.
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Any information that we receive concerning the real world is carefully controlled,
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Why else would fiction have such licence?
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We are allowed to see endless theatrical deaths,
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But when the real deaths started on the Falklands
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Government censors prevented us from seeing them.
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We were given the excuse of 'National Security'
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By the lying shits who were interested only in saving their political skins.
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It didn't matter a fuck to them how many died
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As long as their popularity ratings didn't suffer,
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For that reason alone we were shielded from the truth.
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While the real violence is kept from us
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We are exposed to constant pantomimes of death and destruction.
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Those in power are rightly aware that if we had access to the real facts
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We would cease to be simply passive observers.
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Media coverage of Viet Nam created massive dissent in the U.S.A.
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Thatcher's government was aware of that when, embarking on the Falkland charade,
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They refused press cards to anyone who they knew would not support their line.
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Those who did travel to the Falklands found their reports dramatically cut down.
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Meanwhile, at home, we were fed fabrications of Britain's 'glorious war'.
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The truth that is now filtering out paints a very different picture.
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It's often been said that truth is the first casualty of war,
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It is, but the same could be said of life.
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From birth we are threatened and beaten into submission
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By family, church, school and state.
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From then on we're easy game for the powermongers.
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Like pathetic circus dogs we hunt out praise
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Or, when our true nature finds its way to the surface
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We hide in the darkness, our tails between our legs.
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At all costs we are prevented from realising our own potential.
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We are conditioned into being passive observers.
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If the ring-master offers war,
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We have been conditioned to passively accept it.
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War can only exist through passive acceptance.
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It is nothing but a demonstration of the weakness of human will.
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If the clown offered peace
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We will have been conditioned to accept that too,
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But peace can not and will not be maintained through passive acceptance.
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Peace will require constant demonstrations of personal strength,
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Constant effort, constant hard work,
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Reappraisal, consideration and devotion.
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Which of those qualities were you taught in schoolroom?
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Whereas war simply requires the masses as cannon-fodder,
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Peace requires individuals to realise their own potential,
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The odds are hopelessly against because the State deliberately destroys human will.
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Passive observers offer nothing but decay.
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The flowerbeds need weeding, the roses need cutting back before winter.
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Freed from sedation, released from bondage,
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People would demonstrate their own strength,
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But the powerful elite are aware of this
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And already have tabs on those who they regard as subversives.
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It is easy for them to single out and intimidated us
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And easier still for us simply not to bother.
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It is impossible to gauge the effect that demands for peace may be having,
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The authorities are skilled at concealing dissatisfaction.
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For so long people have been saying "No more war",
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But for all those demands little has changed.
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Seeing that the Peace Movement was growing in strength,
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Thatcher appointed Heseltine as Minister of Defence.
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One specific part of his job is to discredit CND,
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Such is the nature of Conservative democraty.
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As pacifist we are too easily forced back into tokenism,
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Making hollow gestures against the wheels of the juggernaut.
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The line is delicate.
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The spaces have always been created by the gentle and caring,
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To be later filled by bullies and egotists.
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We can try to fill those spaces with the strength of our love.
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Gandhi called it Ahimsa. The Greenham Wowan call it the 'Politics of Whimsy',
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But it doesn't end there, neither is it enough.
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Gandhi played a major role in liberating India from Britain rule,
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But conditions in India are still appaling for the ordinary people.
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Limiting Greenham Peace Camp to women only is a sensible political ploy,
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But if it is a demonstration of sexual exclusivity it is a sham.
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Aren't we seeking to destroy all forms of exclusivity?
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Does our own oppression give us the right to oppress others?
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Unless we are prepared to oppose all oppression,
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We stand guilty of direct contribution to it.
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The neo-fascist plunder our land
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And we must resist them on every level.
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As outsiders we have few right with which to oppose them,
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But on our own, together, we seek them.
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They have their law and those who impose it.
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We only have ourselves and each other.
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They have their order and those who impose it.
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We only have ourselves and each other.
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It is easy to dismiss those who seek peace as dreamers,
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But isn't our whole culture built on past dreams?
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It is essential that our dreams become a reality
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Or there will cease to be one.
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Harrods boast that it can supply any whim that its wealthy clients might express,
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Well let them supply me an Exocet missile and a starving Third World child
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And I'll tell them the politics of choice.
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Equality doesn't enter into the ghettos of wealth.
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Beneath the protective sheath of Thatcher's economy
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The right, rich and privileged get even richer
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And they, in turn, support her barbaric policies both at home and overseas.
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The Falklands war cost Britain over sixteen thousand million pounds - in whose pocket?
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Throughout the world millions of people are employed making armaments,
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Don't they realise that it's ordinary people like themselves who'll suffer the effects of their filthy labour?
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The wealthy obscene with their obscene wealth
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Applaud the carnage from their grandstand.
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It's as if they were at Ascot laying their bets;
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Five to one on the Four Horsemen.
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They believe that money can buy them out of the responsibility
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That they have for the world that they bleed dry.
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They are the true pornographers
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The real stylists in human perversion.
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Rich educated tarts sit dumbly by
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Watching their fortunes rise and fall
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In the neatly pressed pin-striped trousers of the City.
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Debutante whores in rich men's castles.
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The ruling elite with their puppet figurehead
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Queen Elizabeth the Second, Regina Virgina,
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Strut about on the million of bodies
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That they have sacrificed to gain their position.
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Who are these leaders but those who have made violence pay?
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Who are they but the inheritors of their ancestors greed and theft?
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Their blood stained flags are rags to our future,
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Tattered remnant of our individual rights.
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These rulers are common murderers and thieves,
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But still we bow before them.
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For how long will the masses be so pathetically manipulated by God, Queen and Country?
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For fucks sake where are we in all this?
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We're given life yet we court death.
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For Christ's sake how long? How long, oh Lord, how long?
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Still we lay prostrate before a stylised figure on a crucifix.
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As if the stone fool might be resurrected.
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We are expected to bargain our lives for his
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And join him in the ugliness of perpetual Christian guilt.
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He hangs there as a remainder of our own subjugation.
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Let it be known that he alone is Christ,
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Those who dare emulate him shall suffer thus.
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Each settlement is spiked with that stupid image,
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Each conscience nailed to that diet of corruption.
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Military acts are bathed in those gory tales.
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Tired Marines, edgy to fuck and sleep, are blessed in his name.
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Pious virgins in desire kneel in worship before the myth.
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In anticipation of their own death, they await his coming.
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Sweet Jesus have mercy on me.
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Sweet Jesus, they share his agony.
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Sweet Jesus, they share his misery.
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Fuck his loaded deity.
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Over half the world's population is starving,
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Crucified by the greed of landowners,
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Helpless against the imbalance of priorities
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Practiced by the major powers who, if they wanted to, could help.
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Every minute of the day millions upon million of pounds
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Are spent on the machinery of war.
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If only a half of that was spent on the machinery of peace,
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There would be no more starvation on this planet.
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Yet governments pay no heed to the cries of suffering,
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They perhaps make token gestures to appease their consciences,
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But no real improvements are made
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Because to ensure control the superpowers need to maintain the imbalance.
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Natives are slaughtered in their homelands
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By governments seeking out new possessions.
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Most of the wealth of the so called developed nations
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Has been gained at the expense of the Third World
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From whom natural resources, both mineral and human,
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Have been unscrupulously exploited.
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Peoples' pride and dignity is burnt in Napalm
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And hand-held flame-throwers.
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The poor and underprivileged are raped and tormented
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By leaders who use their power not to assist, but to oppress.
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At the wave of a gloved hand
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These people can, and do,
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Send young men to their death,
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But not before others too have fallen from their bayonets and guns.
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Such armies are invariably called 'peace keeping forces'.
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The hypocrisy is as appalling as it is obvious.
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The wealthy, educated, privileged and secure
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Make the lives of those less fortunate a complete misery.
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Million upon millions of people are dying from malnutrition
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Because, to stabilise their economies, governments destroy food rather than giving it to the needy.
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"Let them eat cake" said Marie Antoinette
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As she wiped the calf's blood from her lips.
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"Proud to be British" said Margaret Thatcher
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As she wiped the Falkland's blood from her hands.
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The ruling elite have no concept of what it is to suffer want,
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Yet it is they who are directly responsible.
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In a world where there are people who can't afford a crust of bread,
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These arrogant scabs drive around in Bentleys and Rolls Royces.
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Perhaps it amuses them to rub shit into the faces of the poor,
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But there'll come a time when such overt displays of wealth
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Will not be tolerated by the people in the street.
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In a sane society wealth and possession would not be an asset.
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A few years ago a politician was on the radio
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Saying that no one in the UK suffered from want.
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Next day I saw an old man pleading for a handful of coal;
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His wife was dying of cold and he was penniless.
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Maybe in the morning, as the politician sipped breakfast tea,
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She lay cold and dead before the empty grate.
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Every year thousand of people die of hypothermia,
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Too hungry, too cold, too poor to stay alive.
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At times of national crisis it's always the poor who suffer.
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"Back Britain" we're told
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As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
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At times of international crisis it's the same story.
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"Back Britain" we're told
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As the rich get richer and the poor get killed.
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In the event of a nuclear crisis,
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The rich will retreat to private bunkers with their wealth and possessions.
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The injustice of inequality is sanctioned by the church.
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With its tradition of finance from the gentry
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The church has always been obliged
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To ensure that its flock remains servile.
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"Repent ye sinners or be devoured in the flames of hell."
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Those very same flames that devoured their enemies in countless religious wars.
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So often the church has marched hand in hand with the military
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Casting its blessings upon the writhing bodies of the battlefield.
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Each stab of bayonet is God's word.
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Each crash of steel is God's word.
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Each torn limb and splash of blood is God's word.
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For he so loved the world he gave our only begotten sons.
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Each sodden grave and sodding death is God's word.
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For he so loved the world he gave our only begotten sons.
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For he so loved the world he gave our only begotten sons.
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In Christian societies executions are attended by representatives of the church.
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Goggle-eyed before the gallows, the electric chair and the gas-chamber
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They administer their Christ's blessing.
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In America poison is injected into the blood-stream.
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Another Christ dies, jacked up by the state.
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Another glorious advance for civilisation.
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One small step for man.
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One giant step for mankind.
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For he so loved the world.
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He gave us his only begotten son
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And likewise we are expected so to do.
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For he so loved the world.
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Violent, vicious hypocrisy.
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How is anyone supposed to deal with these contradictions,
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Confusions and lies? They defy reason.
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Oh yes, you can inwardly laugh at the absurdity,
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Satirise the obscenity, but the hysteria soon wears thin
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And the tears wear a colder complexion.
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Humour can offer diversion,
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But it dilutes real anger
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And nothing gets confronted.
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We are ruled by dangerous mad-people,
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What's funny about that for fucks sake?
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The world is daily threatened with annihilation,
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Is that really something to be trivialased?
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The world is under constant threat.
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Against this background of fear
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We struggle to create our own authority.
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While being bludgeoned into conformity
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We struggle to find our inner selves.
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Of course I feel uncomfortable when I'm laughed at in the streets,
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But I don't want to be one of them.
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I want to be an outsider,
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At the same time I'd like to come in out of the cold.
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Urgency overrules personal fears.
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Against the scenario of total destruction
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We demand a sanity that might save the world.
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That alone excludes us from the mainstream of thought.
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History offers no solutions,
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Quotes from Mao or Stalin, Hitler or Marx
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Simply confirms the oppression.
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I'm tired of political experts,
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Tired of 'if onlys'.
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They have always been the same people,
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Grey visionless robots
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Who would have us all share their death.
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History is simply a justification for oppression,
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Written by those who practice it.
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It is being constantly changed and rewritten
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To conform to the requirements of the ruling elite.
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A tempest of convenience that blasts across the blistered bodies of the dead.
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We receive at best only filtered truths.
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Most of what we see and hear is lies.
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The Falklands War was rewritten as it happened.
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It was not a glorious victory for the British spirit,
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Nor an heroic defeat of a fascist dictator.
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It was a callous and savage piece of electioneering
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Designed to cover up horrific domestic problems.
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At a time when a peaceful settlement was a possibility,
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Thatcher personally ordered the sinking of the General Belgrado
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Killing over three hundred men
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And horribly mutilating many more.
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She did this because her political neck required bloodshed
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To prove her wisdom in releasing the Task Force.
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The history books will not document her as a cold-blooded murderer.
521
*
522
I'm tired of the dull rationalisation of the politicians.
523
Weighed down with their sums and inadequacies
524
I feel only anger and bellied hatred for them.
525
How can anyone become so distorted?
526
How can anyone be so far from real human values?
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I feel only disgust for their twisted minds.
528
How can peace be achieved through threats of violence?
529
What kind of hope is there in that strait-jacket?
530
*
531
The authority of those who oppress us
532
Is supported, maintained and defended
533
By those who are themselves the most oppressed;
534
Those who, because they have no alternative, are in service to the rulers.
535
*
536
How can I feel anger towards the squaddy?
537
Weighed down with his guns and inadequacies
538
I can feel only pity and bellied compassion.
539
How can anyone be so distorted?
540
How can anyone be so far from real human values?
541
I can only feel pity for his twisted mind.
542
How can freedom be achieved if the poor fight to uphold
543
The privileges of those who directly oppress them?
544
*
545
We look through one eye hoping the other won't see,
546
That way we only need deal with a half of it.
547
Like bloody ostriches, oblivious,
548
Not because we are, but because we choose to be.
549
Most people see through the lies
550
But are too afraid to admit it.
551
It's so much easier to be the passive observer.
552
How much longer can people afford to just sit by like this?
553
All the indications are there.
554
Massive unemployment,
555
Recession, depression.
556
But who's looking? Who cares?
557
Tamely the population is being led down the road to total bondage.
558
Government is daily strengthening its powers.
559
Those who stand against it are ridiculed,
560
Discredited or abused and punished.
561
Those in power are totally cynical.
562
Rather than analysing the seriousness of the problem
563
They simply strengthen the army and police to combat it
564
They are ready for the inevitable response.
565
It happened in Brixton, Toxteth and Moss Side.
566
It happens daily in Northern Ireland.
567
Under Thatcher's regime there has been massive increases in police brutality.
568
In London police shot down a man
569
Only to find it was the wrong person.
570
We regret to inform you. Regret to inform you.
571
Regret to inform you. We regret to inform you
572
That today another Christ was shot in the back of the head.
573
We regret to inform you. Regret to inform you,
574
That another Christ, not yet ten years old, was shot today,
575
By agents of Her Majesty's Government, with a plastic bullet.
576
They say that plastic bullets were designed not to kill,
577
They do.
578
I say that human beings were not designed to kill, not us, not me;
579
We do.
580
We regret to inform you.
581
*
582
1984 is a book about the positive danger of totalitarianism,
583
Under Thatcher's unfeeling guidance the scenario is one year early.
584
With the cold mechanism of the pin ball arcade
585
We're flicked around as numbers by the hidden computers.
586
Software in the hardware. Documented and filed.
587
We have no access to the information that they have stored on us.
588
Ticker-tape alter egos, print-out portraits.
589
We are becoming another.
590
As individuals within that mechanical system we are arbitrary,
591
Wanted only for what can be taken from us.
592
Our future is of no concern to the mega-corporations
593
Who determine the nature of our economic well-being.
594
Thatcher's policies require massive unemployment
595
Which makes her order to 'support our boys' nothing but a fucking insult.
596
When they were eight thousand miles away dying for her arrogance
597
She fabricated what was a complete mockery of compassion.
598
When they're at home, jobless on the streets,
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She doesn't give a fuck for them.
600
Self determination and self enterprise are her big lines,
601
But just how much of that does she offer to others
602
In her contemptible use of people?
603
She was prepared to risk world peace
604
Saying that it was for the self determination of the Falklanders,
605
Those very same people who over a year ago
606
She was prepared to abandon without a thought.
607
And now, for all her empty talk,
608
They are forced to live in a fortress waiting for further hostilities.
609
Thatcher has recently sanctioned a loan of one hundred million pounds to Argentina
610
Claiming that it was to stabilise world economy.
611
The purchase of further Exocets and the development of nuclear potential
612
Should do much for world economy, but very little for world security.
613
Just what the fuck was all that bloodshed for?
614
*
615
Thatcher has signed away British self-determination in one single stroke.
616
She has agreed to install deadly cruise missiles on British soil
617
Over which the Americans have total control.
618
The American military presence is designed solely
619
To limit nuclear war with Russia to the 'European Theatre'.
620
Meanwhile we are sold the wicked lie of protection and deterrence.
621
American war planners have repeatedly stated that they intend
622
To fight the Third World War on European soil;
623
Cruise missiles greatly increase the danger of that happening.
624
Designed to avoid radar detection by skimming the earth's surface,
625
Cruise missiles are seen as the ideal 'first strike weapon',
626
They also guarantee a massive response that would make Britain into a nuclear desert.
627
Military naivety is astounding. The experts seriously believe
628
That they will be able to limit war to the 'theatre'.
629
In this particular show the world will be the stage,
630
There'll be no encore.
631
*
632
Thatcher and her cronies talk of 'limited tactical response'
633
And 'executive action' causing 'collateral damage'.
634
These terms are borrowed from their American counterparts
635
And are designed to mask the ugly reality that they describe.
636
In everyday language 'collateral damage' simply means civilian deaths.
637
In the event of nuclear attack on Britain that would amount to thirty-eight million people.
638
Is it any wonder that these crazy psychotics
639
Invent jargon to assist them in their studied madness?
640
Every year hundreds of innocent people still die horrific deaths
641
As a result of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
642
It is probably that an all out nuclear war
643
Would destroy all life on planet Earth.
644
*
645
We are not talking fantasy,
646
Nor preaching doom.
647
We are talking of an existing reality;
648
The one that we allow to exist around us.
649
*
650
Defence Secretary Heseltine disputes the kind of information that we offer
651
Claiming that it has 'no basis in fact'.
652
There are no words to describe the utter contempt
653
That we feel for people of his kind.
654
They sit in their seats of power
655
Distorting and perverting all human decency.
656
How can they dare be so blatant?
657
How can they dare be so hypocritical?
658
Who is this Heseltine with his corrupt lies?
659
Who is this Thatcher with her arrogant deceit?
660
These hideous mutants cast their shadows
661
Across all that is worthwhile and good.
662
*
663
Cruise missile will be installed because Thatcher has created some kind of deal with Reagan.
664
We will probably never know the details of that arrangement.
665
It will almost certainly involve some kind of economic juggling act,
666
The massive corporations turning political thumbscrews
667
On U.S. investment in Britain.
668
Russian tanks in Afghanistan are nothing
669
Compared with the bargaining power of American capital in the UK.
670
Whatever the nature of that deal is,
671
It has made Britain into America's front line,
672
The fifty-third State, with no rights of citizenship.
673
To many people that might not matter,
674
Fed from birth on American propaganda and Hollywood trash,
675
The resistance levels are low.
676
As long as we passively accept American domination
677
We can except no real advance.
678
We are being sold down the line.
679
*
680
To many people the missiles and warheads might not matter.
681
To many people nuclear reality is too huge to contemplate,
682
Yet for all people the reality looms constantly in nightmares.
683
In the nuclear state we are expected to accept those nightmares.
684
Is this really all that we can hope for as life?
685
Is this really all that we can hope for as death?
686
Maybe our lives don't matter that much,
687
But why impose our madness on future generations?
688
Or is it perhaps that you no longer believe that there will be future generations?
689
In your passive acceptance of it
690
You have already allowed the holocaust to happen.
691
The future is ended.
692
*
693
We are not talking fantasy,
694
Nor preaching doom.
695
We are talking of an existing reality,
696
The one that we allow to exist around us.
697
*
698
The nuclear hardware produces in the last three decades
699
Will pollute the Earth for thousands of years.
700
A nuclear war will destroy it.
701
Is that why the cherry trees blossom?
702
You are destroying and corrupting.
703
In condemning them to the nuclear nightmare
704
Are you willing to accept the burning of tomorrow's unborn?
705
They know nothing of this sorrow.
706
*
707
Suffer little children to come unto me.
708
Suffer little children to come unto me.
709
Suffer little children to come unto me.
710
Suffer little children to come unto me.
711
*
712
In your refusal to act against these hideous dangers
713
You are guilty of being the gutless passive observer.
714
Are you so inhuman that you will let this happen?
715
Just a helpless bystander waving your flag in mute acceptance?
716
Take up your eyes and see.
717
Take up your ears and hear.
718
Take up your mind and think.
719
Take up your life and act.
720
*
721
It is up to us all as responsible citizens of Earth
722
To work towards the downfall of the powerful elite.
723
Their rule has created dreadful suffering.
724
Their insanity precludes all reason and compassion,
725
They lie, trick and manipulate.
726
They are the maggots in the flesh of decency,
727
The vultures that pick at the bones of hope,
728
The carriers of famine, war, pestilence, and death.
729
*
730
They must be stopped.
731
Why should people die for their insanity?
732
Why should people starve for their insanity?
733
Why should people suffer the spitefulness of their greed?
734
We must not be intimidated by the authority that they appear to have.
735
We must be prepared to oppose them on every level,
736
To fight back in the knowledge that if we don't
737
We will have failed in our responsibility to life itself.
738
It has happened before
739
That the powerless have risen against the oppressor
740
Only to be beaten back.
741
But there have been cases where they have succeeded.
742
Ours is a just cause,
743
It is up to each one of us, alone, to do our best.
744
We must learn to overcome our fears.
745
We must realise that the strength that they have
746
Is the strength that we give them.
747
It is you, the passive observer who has given them this power.
748
You are being used and abused
749
And will be discarded as soon as they've bled what they want from you. You must learn to live with your own conscience,
750
your own morality,
751
your own decision,
752
your own self.
753
You alone can do it.
754
There is no authority but yourself.
755
*
756
One squaddy, horrifically burnt in the Falklands War,
757
Was approached by Prince Charles during a presentation.
758
"Get well soon" said the Prince, to witch the squaddy replied,
759
"Yes Sir, I will".
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