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2 Ways To Go Which 1 Chose

On the news today

The headline storyline was presented
and reported as follows

In Liverpool today some local right wing
protestors who's arms are up in flame's 
replacing pitchforks for placards 

Which was later retracted in place
of rabble of lawless youths one as 
young as just age 15

Causing and terminating in a riot
and remonstrating outside a 4 Star
Hotel

Currently turned into a hostel or facility
to accommodate Asylum seekers 

Because and due to according to official
press releases and reports 

Misinformation being posted on social
media platforms 

Which left the male only residents inside
traumatized and fearing for their own
safety and lives

So much so they do no longer wish to 
stay as are now so fearful to even
contemplate leaving the confinement 
of the building let alone venturing outside 

Now it all depends on what and which
you as individual choose to be believe

As everything unless you were actually
there to witness it with your own eye's
and for yourself

You have no choice unless you know
someone who was actually there

But to take onboard the way it is
reported by the news media believing
they are holy trustworthy

Like in the aftermath the very next day
a reporter is stood outside interviewing

One of the Asylum seekers describing
exactly how bad it actually was and the
general mood and feeling amongst
those inside

With not a scowl but rather a broad
smile seemingly more than willing
actually happy to be interviewed

With what appeared to look like or
be a backpack as if he was just off
out for a morning strole to the shops
for the maybe daily milk or bread

Not someone in fear all dressed up
well prepared in expectations of an
impending fight

And granted that I did not see the
contents of hidden inside his bag 

I'll have to rest my case 

Otherwise I am in fear of falling into 
the same category of what the media
do ever so well

Like insinuating presuming and making
things up as I go

And never letting the truth get in the
way when trying to embellish and
over egg a story

Copyright © Christopher Flaherty | Year Posted 2023

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