Human Being

You are a human being they told me, something you should treasure But isn't a human being the only animal who kills for pleasure? Man's inhumanity to man, a crime like no other The first family on earth had brother killing brother We are power hungry bastards from the cradle to the grave We pillage other countries and the survivors we enslave Politicians lie to their people saying only what they want to hear Stripping their own of a sense of pride and instilling a state of fear They speak of human rights and how our country has been torn Then turn around and murder a child before he's even born For killers and rapists and dealers the ACLU has led many fights Then tell a six year old rape victim that she really has no civil rights We can't teach about Jesus, our school teachers must be mum We can teach about Hitler, Stalin and other human scum People kill each other for no reason every day Then a lower form of life, a lawyer saves his day Where is justice? Nowhere in sight. Anything is legal if the price is right You are a human being. This is what they proudly proclaim If I am a human being, then I should hang my head in shame.