[kj] ot - nutjobs in good 'ole USA

[Darren A. Peace]

You know, I was listening to some songs on random play this afternoon, and
something turned up that I've not heard for a while but which perfectly sums
up how I feel at election time generally. I realise it's an adolescent
position (but so's Empire Song); I often forget quite how much I like Peter
Hammill & Van Der Graaf Generator.

 

It was "Another Bloody Emperor", from VDGG's "Present" LP:

 

By this we are all sustained: a belief in human nature
And in justice and parity...all we have is the faith to carry on.

Imperceptible the change as our votes become mere gestures
And our lords and masters determine to cast us
In the roles of serfs and slaves
In the new empire's name.

Yes and every bloody emperor claims that freedom is his cause
As he buffs up on his common touch as a get-out clause.

Unto nations nations speak in the language of the gutter;
Trading primetime insults the imperial impulse
Extends across the screen.
Truth's been beaten to its knees; the lies embed ad infinitum
Till their repetition becomes a dictum
We're traitors to disbelieve.
With what impotence we grieve for the democratic process
As our glorious leaders conspire to feed us
The last dregs of imperious disdain
In the new empire's name.

Yes and every bloody emperor's got his hands up history's skirt
As he poses for posterity over the fresh-dug dirt.
Yes and every bloody emperor with his sickly rictus grin
Talks his way out of nearly anything but the lie within
Because every bloody emperor thinks his right to rule divine
So he'll go spinning and spinning and spinning into his own decline.

Imperceptible the change as one by one our voices falter
And the double standards of propaganda
Still all our righteous rage.

By this we are all sustained: our belief in human nature.
But our faith diminishes - close to the finish,
We're only serfs and slaves
As the empire decays.

 

Time for a plague of lighthouse keepers, I think.

 

Darren

Hungerford, UK

 

From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of fluw
Sent: 14 October 2008 17:06
To: 'A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)'
Subject: [kj] ot - nutjobs in good 'ole USA

 

 

"A one man terrorist cell" ? ha ha

 

Barring another stolen vote count, I Guess we shall see if he is?

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Things have gotten so out of control that some conservatives have come
forward to denounce McCain and Palin's hate-mongering. In an Op-Ed
<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=z%2FmWzc4hqP9dUxtxTI
JY0ByCc5SNqXBM>  for The Baltimore Sun, Frank Schaeffer writes: "John
McCain: If your campaign does not stop equating Sen. Barack Obama with
terrorism, questioning his patriotism and portraying Mr. Obama as "not one
of us," I accuse you of deliberately feeding the most unhinged elements of
our society the red meat of hate, and therefore of potentially instigating
violence." 

 

 

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