SOP / Paying the Bloody Bills

1       SOP

I

Made easy   by deceitfully holding out
the supremely ironic fairy-tale promise
of its cure-all code-word tonics
— namely safety  security  freedom —

the Empire of Lies'  SOP requires
that increasingly appealingly disguised
       forms of enslavement
       and modes of surveillance
              are brought to bear on our lives

requires
that through the effective deception
       of projecting a virtuous impression;
that via rhetorical moral posturing
       with its Oscar-worthy pretense
              of championing all things ethical

unconsciously triggered aspersions
are cast upon those who dissent;

       are cast upon vigilant thinkers
              who scoff at sanitized versions
       of what classified info would show
       were covert ops and false flag events;
       cast   upon those who scoff at claims
       of noble goals and wholesome intent.

II

Befitting that Fordian quip
— that frequently paraphrased crack —
about any color you like so long as it's black

the irrepressibly selfless empire
exports   by both subtle underhand means
                     and nakedly lethal brute force
the irresistible gift of democracy

       provided of course   the natives elect
       whichever hand-picked puppet regime
       the imperial wizards deem fit to select
              in their infinite  beneficent wisdom.

III

Considering
the magnificent doublespeak pretexts
of R2P and 'humanitarian intervention'

       along with color revolutions
                     financed and fomented
       by dedicated  destabilization agents
              on subversive foreign missions

and considering that these
were but some of the latest
outrageously two-faced additions

       to an ever-swelling repertoire
                     of tactics and strategies
              for unleashing the imperium's
                            cutting-edge depravities

one wondered what more-demonic
       the heinous  apparatus of empire
                     could have possibly wanted

that it hadn't already produced
              through the usual tried-and-true
                            divide-and-rule devices
of cultivating  chaos and conflict
                     and sustaining states of crisis.


2       Paying the Bloody Bills

When the bread grows so scarce
                            it hasn't time to go stale
and the circuses fail  to fully distract

empires require
police-state-propping cops
to keep  the teetering domestic peace
              in the shadow of looming collapse;

need goons  guns and gases
       jailers  jail cells and fines
              to keep the home front masses
                     from stepping outside the lines

       as the boys in blue and riot-gear-black
       do their brutal best to subdue and repress

while the tireless military finds itself busy
causing carnage in faraway lands
       as the tax-battered unwitting civvies
       fund the power-crazed shot callers' plans

       and the warfare state does all that it can
              to pummel the face of the human race.


Slaughter abroad   repression at home
the workers pay for the bankstered wars
propaganda works hard to have them condone.