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patriotism is legalized
government murder
only sly agendas differ
allies today enemies tomorrow
unseen hands roll the dice

phantom menace
unseen creeping terror
power has society decreed
killing one person is murder
patriotism must war kill millions

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Terence George Craddock

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Topic(s) of this poem: patriotism

poem poems murder Patriotism power tomorrow Enemies

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Written in April 2015 on the 12&13.4.2015.
Complete version of the split images 'Controlled Society Kills' and 'Patriotism War Kills Millions' by Terence George Craddock.
Inspired by a quote by Howard Zinn.

'We grow up in a controlled society, where we are told that when one person kills another person, that is murder, but when the government kills a hundred thousand, that is patriotism.'
- Howard Zinn

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