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To Secure the Homeland

fear of an attack on the anniversary of 9/11 has people in the US twitching & scampering with the hairs on the back of their necks sticking straight up & the government assures everyone that it has the situation under control that it is pursuing said suspects with that same quality veracity which was spent looking for WMD’s that were never found & bin laden who took ten years & $4 trillion dollars to wack. still speaking with the fascist rhetoric that was so often used by dubya, mr. obama & co. speak of “securing the homeland,” replacing the “motherland” concept of 1938 with the updated 21st century version, but the sentiment still rings true--- stretch our borders as far as our reach can go to preserve this sudetenland & worry about what will follow if & when anyone questions our actions. rather than stopping the terrorism of other countries on this earth for our own material gain, the US insists on driving forward ignoring every voice that ask it to do otherwise, and we still have the audacity to wonder why we aren’t “secure.” the “homeland” is this earth, and it is here for all of us humans, whether you like it or not--- and when the next big war comes, there will be nothing left but the cockroaches & maybe some neon-green rats who, found immune to the radiation above ground, now glow their way through the sewers & abandoned subway tunnels. if you want to save yourself, apply for a job as a human butler to the cockroach-rat empire to come, early--- because that’s all that will be left.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011




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