Patriots Act - February 1st, 2005 - by MrM

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Authors censored in foreign lands,
Now they can't be published here unless approved by "The Man"
I thought this was a place where words could not be banned.
What's going on?

So we moralize; then we tell the world lies,
And when we're criticized we say it's politicized.
With our guided missiles we communicate
Through collateral damage, sowing seeds of hate.

You say these are not soldiers who you've demonized
So now torture is ok - the old rules don't apply.
So now we're on their level. Can we really say why?
It's going on.

We put them in prisons without representation.
We won't publish their names, saying we're afraid that revelation
Might let their friends know that they're still alive...
But three years later innocents are STILL inside.

We give up our freedoms - as though they were candy
That could be traded for security; It all seems so handy.
As we trade lives for oil and call it war on terror;
We condemn the world court 

because we might just be judged there...

We've lost freedom and respect in this war.
Can we justify the sacrifice or what it was for?
Are we more or are we less than what we were before?
What's going on?

They may accuse me of sedition. They may call me a traitor.
But I'm a U.S. citizen, not some foreign invader.
I'm a true patriot - and that's a fact...
And I think it's high time we true patriots act!

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