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Don'T Blame Me: I Never Gave My Consent To Be Governed

Auguste Blanqui was correct to assert "Revolutionaries aren't born, they are made" They're being made everyday, but Sunday, At the hands of a corrupt State, One they've tirelessly helped to create - If we are to become its product What then can be expected of change? In a world full of self-made victims Responsible for their own problems - Brutality, usury, indoctrination and assimilation: The end results of our inaction! Don't tell me about the problems Try explaining how you never saw this coming! Complain about the times And I will come to remind, time and time again: "You have no one but yourself to shower with your blame; For being seduced by the corrupting ways of an inhuman system by subjugating yourself with the oath of a vote to its authoritarian state." - And them right there is "fightin' words" in a "civilized world!" Don't bemoan about the awful smell After building your own jail cell; Otherwise, Don't tell me: "If you don't vote don't complain." - Because these two things are very much the same...

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Date: 4/4/2017 3:15:00 PM
It was a long time coming; now it's here. Much more coming, too.
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