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surveillance
SURVEILLANCE
For our safety we are watched constantly
Electronic eyes unable to account
For the nuances of human behaviour
Infiltrate all aspects of living
Criminalizing us
Laying bare all our sins
Intrusive watchmen abound
Debasing all ideas of privacy
A record of all our misdemeanors
Is forever present in cyberspace
We can never repent nor forget
Actions of yesterday
That we deplore today
Our liberty is easily seduced from us
With the promise of big brother's
Constant all seeing eyes
And supposedly broad shoulders
Protecting us from the ghost of an unknown future
The all intrusive camera on every street
Now replaces the curtain twitching busy bodies
Of yesterday
Must we hide in order to have some privacy?
Has liberty become a defunct creed?
Is anonymity only present in your psyche
Where no one can infiltrate?
Must we continue to be defiled so intimately
And so thoroughly?
The value of protection today is
A necessary cost ever present in our mindset
We must have no peace it seems in these turbulent times
The attraction of pseudo emotional safety
Trumps petty squabbles over rights
Fear of terrorism
That age old problem
Results in ego trips from those in authority
Them who wish to bolster their popularity
By smothering us with hysterical flam
Fear is often thankfully unfounded
But anxiety rules the day
And will always keep common sense at bay
Lone rangers abound who will
Fight for his fellow brother's inalienable rights
Despite the dangers to themselves
Knights in shining armour they surely must be
Long may he live and believe
In the goodness of humanity with all its variety
A totalitarian philosophy permeates authority
Our leaders are blinded by ideals expounded by believers
Who build a political system
Akin to a house of cards
That has no stability
Society is flooded with false dogma
Which disobliges Man’s Basic intelligence
And his ideas of
Right from wrong
Those that rule
Rule with our authority
Let them not hijack our liberty
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