earthmann

American pathology
delusions
believing our own
self-righteous
bloody religious
nationalistic
propaganda
holy vomit
sacred shit
blind eyes to
our precious empire's
violence and greed
and the ignorance
and apathy
from which it springs

trampling Goodness
feeding the powerful
fucking the hungry

we dissent quietly
between grande caramel lattes
calm cool collected
numbified
good citizens.
how mushy
our American minds
so steeped in cynicsm
and twinkies
that horror and atrocity
are lost beneath
the gauze of doughnut glaze
t.v.'s too small
for proper outrage
flatline brainwave
never to rise
to rebuke
the evil
cast our name.


From Bob Herbert: "We know that people were kept in cells that in some cases were the equivalent of animal cages, and that some detainees, disoriented and despairing, have been shackled like slaves and left to soil themselves with their own urine and feces. Detainees are frequently kicked, punched, beaten and sexually humiliated. Extremely long periods of psychologically damaging isolation are routine.
This is all being done in the name of fighting terror. But the best evidence seems to show that many of the people rounded up and dumped without formal charges into Guant�namo had nothing to do with terror. They just happened to be unfortunate enough to get caught in one of Uncle Sam's depressingly indiscriminate sweeps. Which is what happened to Shafiq Rasul, who was released from Guant�namo about a year ago. His story is instructive, and has not been told widely enough."