Without Justice Without Peace

Without Justice Without Peace

“Them belly-full” versus “we hungry”

Masters versus slaves, since always

The haves versus the have-nots, from the beginning of time

Rich versus Poor since millennia

Religious versus non-believers since the Biblical prophets

The 1% elite versus the other 99%
The west versus the rest

The imperialists versus the third world

The colonizers versus the colonies

Look at the big picture, not out of context

Five hundred years of genocide against Native people

“The White Man’s Burden” to “Civilize the dirty natives”
Four hundred years of transatlantic kidnapping
and slavery of African Americans
The Crusades, phase one, phase two, phase three
World War one, two, three, four
On average America has been at war every year

in the two hundred year history

of military interventions around the world
Xenophobia leads to war overseas
and to civil unrest in the homeland

The biggest purveyors of global violence

Need more guns in the country versus the amount of humans
Mad cowboys can become volatile

Instigated by the racial arsonist-in-chief

Badge carrying “lawmen” can become vigilantes

And perpetrators of violence domestically

The holy police state keeps the matrix rolling
And no one sends cops to jail

The centuries old policy of divide and rule is enforced

To ensure Brown and Black people stay busy

Blaming and fighting each other

While the corrupt stay in power

And foreign corporations steal the resources of the local people
Puppets and dictators are installed and supported
Democratically elected leaders are assassinated

Or overthrown in military coups

Or ousted by economic hitmen

Threatened by 800 military bases in 70 countries

As the news media tells people to go to sleep

While the godfather’s boot on their neck pushes harder

Using a war on drugs

Or a war on terror

Or a war on Communism
Or a war on anyone

Who disagrees with the religion

called the “American way of life”

The tax payer’s dollars are used
To make war around the world

And to oppress the masses domestically
In the most homogenous society in the world

It’s like bread and circus for the romans
To party with beer, football, pets, pills and pornography
The public is told to stay away from politics

Be aloof and claim, “It’s not in my back yard,
I don’t care, screw you, leave me alone!”
Til the police state infiltrates the schools

And the streets

Where White mass shooters are extended a red carpet
And labeled as victims of mental illness

While Black and Brown un-armed citizens
Are killed in cold blood, on live camera

With billions of witnesses

And still the murderers get away

Without a slap on the wrist

When the politicians, lobbyists and CEO’s
Make millions in bribes and bonuses

They conspire to eliminate the middle-class
To kill the American Dream
To make people beg for minimum wages
Anyone who objects, ends up in a private prison
Run by for-profit corporations
Slavery is legal in jail.

Then one day, a pandemic erupts
And there is no war declared on the virus

The Pentagon’s trillion dollar budget

Can’t kill public enemy number one, Covid-19
Not professed as a threat to American security
So in the lockdown, conspiracy theories fester
Every fourth person gets fired from their job

No benefits, no insurance

No savings to pay the monthly bills
With all that pent up anger,

George Floyd’s brutal murder

Becomes a match in the powder barrel

To ignite civil unrest in 50 American cities
When the mob rules
They feel their jobs were vandalized

Justice was looted from them
They were robbed of peace
Their civil rights were violated
Their dignity was stolen
Their sense of security was shattered

So in the blowback

Sometimes

Some poor

Some powerless

Victims of a long-oppressed society
Might cross boundaries

As seen in the media

In the last days of May 2020
Yet “the revolution won’t be televised”