"extortionists" poems
The late hours fluorescent light flicker
From the moon to the neon red lights
The scars of our fathers written on our thighs
Scared to be seen in the imminent daylight
Freelance extortionists and racketeering blacklist
Black market, black cats, capitalizing on rats
The rat race is being run by yuppies in ties
With lies and cries of spies in in the skies
Confusing their faces with ones that I like
Indecisive for lack of a vice at the peak
I scrape together letters from the people I fight
Where notes are written about the upcoming week
The world's on fire and I hold it trembling
My fingers are burning and my shoulders broken
I buckle but seconds before I go down
The world breaks open upon the cold ground
Jul 28, 2013
Jul 28, 2013 at 2:37 PM UTC
Asking the Congress to rewrite laws
That benefit and enrich themselves
Is asking the wolf not to eat the lamb.
The wolf will eat the lamb.
The lamb cannot avoid this fate
By pretending it is not worth eating.
The wealthy are well rewarded
For not caring about the poor.
To make them care the only way
Is to offer them tributes.
The rich want you to buy
Their trinkets and toys
And leave the lawmaking to them.
As long as we let the rich
Write the laws and control
Enforcement, the law
Will be slanted in their favor.
Nothing fuels fascism like poor people,
So the rich will raise prices and
Thus keep the people poor.
Dishonest people will always
Blame someone else for their crimes.
In government, they will blame
Honest people trying to do the job
They were elected to do.
If a person fails to be outraged
At the actions of criminals,
He is either criminal himself
Or a defense attorney,
And that person may be
Both at the same time.
Among the biggest mistakes
One can ever make
Is believing campaign promises
Where no evidence exists
Of any plan to keep them.
As long as politics are run
Like a beauty contest,
Nothing like democracy
Ever has a chance to succeed.
In a democratic country,
The common people must
Expect to participate
To make it work.
That means they must work
Within the system to ensure
All nefarious people and laws
Be discovered and thrown out.
Undefended rights are only
Privileges grudgingly by government
Dispensed as alms to beggars.
In a representative government,
Everyone must be a representative.
Yesterday is a terrible day
To plan to fix things.
Today and tomorrow
Are the only time we have to do it.
If a representative
Does not walk his talk,
Stop listening to his talk
And watch his walk.
Do not expect industry or military
To protect your rights.
They are both monetary institutions
Addicted to power.
If Congresspeople earn fortunes
By serving the people,
There can be no equity
In representation.
Corruption will rule the land.
Lobbyists should be imprisoned
if they are indistinguishable
From extortionists.
Voting districts need to be
Based on the needs of the people,
Not the needs of the bank accounts
Of our leadership.
Offshore bank accounts should be
As illegal as they are immoral.
Jan 21, 2017
Jan 21, 2017 at 6:08 PM UTC
wholesome integrity accelerated by alter-egos
of those whose feel the need to exterminate fate
of many willing to go not remain
in the end it is never
the extortionists intended fate
May 19, 2012
May 19, 2012 at 8:24 PM UTC
lies, hatred, fake news, smears....
if this is labour in opposition
what on earth would they be like
in power.
it was Donald trump who popularized
the term "fake news"
but it is the labour party that has turned
misinformation and lies into an art form
ian austen
Exremists that shore up Money Extortionists and Gangsters
that victimized an innocent blackman for standing up to Local area Criminals, and turned a hardworking decent law-abiding man
into a jobless, isolated, demonized outcast, for daring to tell crooks to go get a job and better themselves rather than burglarizing those that work.
ATTACK ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH and THE FREE PRESS
In his 2018 speech to members at the Labour Party conference, he encouraged them to go online and attack journalists: “The free press has far too often meant the freedom to spread lies and half-truths, and to smear the powerless, not take on the powerful. You challenge their propaganda of privilege by using the mass media of the 21st century: social media”.
That could be why journalists are routinely booed at Labour press conferences and BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenss-berg needed security guards when she covered the party’s annual conference in 2017.
In an interview the same year, Corbyn even admitted to being a reader of The Canary, described by one left-wing writer as “running a sexist hate campaign against Laura Kuenssberg”.
Of the controversial site, Corbyn said: “I think it’s good that people go to all the alternative sites and check out what they want. I’ve read The Canary quite a bit.”
Corbyn was infamously a member of an extremist Facebook group, too, in which he defended a blatantly anti-Semitic mural depicting Jews as greedy bankers, while his staff were found to be members of several others.
The Facebook groups set up in his name reveal the ugly face of the hard Left that now controls Labour.
That’s why his faction of extremists can’t be allowed anywhere near No10.
If this is what they are like in opposition, can you imagine how bad they’d be in power?
Ian Austin is a former Labour MP and chair of Mainstream, the campaign against extremism.
Dec 11, 2019
Dec 11, 2019 at 9:34 PM UTC