They Are with Them...

US News, and World Report, Paul Shinkman

© May 28, 2021, the Griot Poet

 

September 21, 2001,

Ten days later,

“President Bush stood before Congress and vowed to use every resource available to defeat global terrorism.”

 

Though he could have taken the Taliban’s offer of Osama Bin Laden, I digress.

 

The president’s words were blunt:

 

“Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done,” he said.

 

“I know many citizens have fears tonight, and I ask you to be calm and resolute, even in the face of a continuing threat,”

 

“The Taliban must act and act immediately. They will hand over the terrorists or they will share in their fate,”

 

“Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists,”

 

May 28, 2021,

Thirty-five fascists,

Beat a total of 54 patriots,

With the antebellum, antidemocratic filibuster,

Thirty-five decided they are with the terrorists,

Who decided to derail democracy,

January 6,

One hundred, forty-four officers injured,

Brian Sicknik died of "natural causes,"

(Stroke by attack and bear spray)

Callously ignored the pleas of his mother, Gladys,

One lost eye,

The other three fingers,

One suicide,

STOP with your "family values" bullshit,

Criminals won’t vote for commissions,

That would expose them complicit,

With a modern-day insurrection,

Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley,

Over one hundred in the House,

Voted to decertify an American election,

The violence was already done,

To the Constitutional, peaceful transfer of power

Before “the storm” at the Capitol,

Matt Gaetz,

Likely statutory rapist,

Is egging on "Second Amendment remedies"

Because [an] indictment,

In a nonfunctional democracy,

He knows,

Means nothing - it doesn't exist,

He’ll still get paid,

He nor his party wants functional government,

They [just] want to continue the grift,

Dim Bart,

Fox Propaganda,

QAN,

Lies Max,

Stormtrooper Front,

 

Are the digital descendants,

Of propaganda pamphlets,

Published by “southern gentlemen,”

Fake news, yellow journalism,

For the rubes to consume, and

Fight the Civil War

Against the north:

On behalf of the class sipping mint juleps from their porch,

The duped rubes got missing limbs and PTSD;

The plantation oligarchs got reparations,

The duped rubes are getting arrested for the insurrection,

The oligarchs are buying half-billion-dollar yachts,

(And a spare for the helicopter)

 

The people who fly the flag of treason could care less about that,

“America first,”

It was always about white nationalism,

They tell themselves what they WANT to believe,

Without a shared reality,

There is no democracy,

Or E Pluribus Unum,

 

I rewrite W’s blunt statement,

As this moment’s precedent,

Because the war on Christmas is a myth,

And the war on democracy is not finished:

 

“The Republicans, or, what’s left of them must act and act immediately. They will hand over the terrorists, or they will share in their fate,”

 

“Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with [the] January 6 insurrectionists.