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The Sociopath Irony

s/he who will get locked away, fried in the chair, lethally injected, gassed, hung or shot by a firing squad, resides right in your home town, right in your neighborhood, right round the corner & without the ability to feel guilt when s/he lies, cheats, steals, rapes, beats or kills someone, s/he’s considered to be a major threat to the stability of “western civilization.” and yet, it is said that most “normal” people don’t make good killers & that those who join the military have to undergo such “training” (brainwashing + drugs) in order to be able to do it efficiently without the side-effects that would come with doing it as a civilian & still, it is said that many soldiers aim high or do their best not to kill, especially if in hand to hand or close combat, unless they are pushed to extreme limits. the irony is that those that our tax dollars send all across the world to stomp on others in the name of our great empire (our great policeman of the world), are those least likely to do what they are being paid to do, while those that threaten us on a daily basis here at home, silently & secretly, are the kinds of individuals who can win wars. we humans celebrate the sociopaths when they kill in our name when we’re on the side of the winners & history will be forged in such a way as to show that what said sociopath leader did was indeed great, that in our time of need, s/he killed without conscience, s/he killed indiscriminately & had s/he not been doing it to “them,” s/he might have been doing it to us.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 2/26/2016 11:25:00 PM
One of the best poems I have ever read. The police state is obvious to some and just completely unknown to others. This poem though, I love it. What is normal and why is it OK to kill innocent human beings as long as your wearing a uniform? Yet people who murder in the US especially are convicted (and rightfully so) there has to be a better way to live.
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