House of Paine

human rights empire

 “first they watched star trek
 then  they created star wars
 now they're  ready 
to really   run the earth 
and like they're parents 
they plan on running it all 
from the air”
                 Fidel Castro june 2002 
  

  could the worst have already happened

ofcourse it has



  everyone’s  talking about it 
whats wrong with you 
 
 you wanta be  the  last to know?
  
I’m hardly the first to blab
this 

but  at any rate just 
 for the record 
heres 
  the stalest of stale   headline 

  lady Woodstock 
found  in love bungalow
with army hog
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 circa 9/11 JUST where  you want to be 

while on holiday here 
this past  month 
lady woodstock met and 
fell in love 
 with  certain  Corporal America 

seemingly both saddened
and   affrighted by scenes of 
 hateful lust she had witnessed
 teeming  up and down  
 the meanest  streets 
 of  this planet
all of a sudden 
according to close friends
 after years of peacenikery
 and wild flowered head gear  
  madame woodstock 
 finds herself in raptures over
the  unseen bulging  beauty
 stored inside those  brave
 hard boys who
can get it done..................

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 don’t fucking shake your head
 she’s the better   boomers 


 she  watched star trek
  she scoffed at  star wars

it was all  inevitable
now that its herself 
    sitting up there
 at the head of the table

 as that  loathsome muppet
  yoda would say

“falling she is  ”
 and gad zoooooks  its for
something in scanty  imperial pajamas 
 
and falling  hard brother super  hard 

 deep down 
 almost everyone thinks an 
 enlightened  despot
 can out perform democracy 

and this goes just as much   for
the democracy  of  nations 

like   communites of  people 
  communitie’s of nations
 can’t govern themselves worth shit  
 in a crisis   
 exhibit a  munich 
 exhibit b  ethiopia 
exhibit c  vietnam 
 whoops just kidding 

get it 

 lets be fair here
to the lady 
its a  new type  empire
 shes  hankering  for 

  it has to be
 
she’s a noble fuck after all 

 her  empire has to be 
the kind of empire
 you  can dance with all nite 
 and still  feel clean in the crotch 
next morning 

lets call it 
a human rights empire

 an empire to be  sure
but human and  rightly
righteous  
or at least 
 mostly rightly 
 and humbly righteous  

look at the facts
 with the eyes of a  compassionate 
   freed  mind  for once 

 the world’s got issues
 tough killer issues
all around you see 
desperate little men  
 armed and dangerous little men 
little men easily made to act ugly 
especially toward the weak
 the peaceful  the poor 
and the distaff

 and the assembled will
of the community of nations
what does it do 
what can it do 
nothing 

when in solemn assembly 
  it  dithers and 
dithers  away 
as genecides, clitorectomies 
 and other murderous tyrannies
sweep the globe 

the communty of nations  
 can’t make up its mind 
fast enough or often enough
to preserve civilization 
its mind is too complicated
too conflicted
to preoccupied
 with small parochial   visions 

come crunch time 
all the communty of nations  can do 
is deliberate
 fulminate 
procrastinate 
till oh my gosh golly   
  its  too late my lady too late 
 
  after a while it gets to be 
too many next time maybes
 
face it 
 the world in its collective conclaves 
 can’t cut the knot

hence and therefore
 the globe needs a leader nation 
 a leader with heft and reach
 a leader who may be fallible 
but goodly intended 
a tom hanks/ dan ackroyd
 ron howard type nation

a  leader nation 
 who can act now before its too late
a leader nation  who doesn’t have to wait
for the translation

whos that  nation ?
who ya going to call ?

only one candidate
can fit that bill

 uncle hegemon 

but dang
 is he in need of an oil change 
says lady woodstock 
 this bizness has got to be run proper 

using bill of rights rules 
  sermon on the mount 
 guidelines 
and helping hand 
 human dignity  goals 
 
 not  like that sub Rambo juvenile 
 steroid rampage 
 the BushCheney  ticket’s  running
out on us  

there is absolutely 
no vision in that mud pie mob

 no that sucks
 thats piggy wiggy
 giant profit dork  stuff

sure they acted gentle enough in Iraq
 Al  Gore couldn’t have handled it any better 
 or Ralph Nader even  if he had a mind to 

but scratch the skin and you find 
 guys like that act gentle  only 
when  they figure
 the herd they’re rustling 
is mostly   hornless 

if and or when 
things get sticky 
 story changes 
they get nasty 

check out the IROCCUPATION
thing  if 
 G. I.  bodies really start to drop 

 when they’ ve sent our boys 
into dusty places like that 
 they always    make promises
 they don’t plan to keep
talk sweet and lovely 
write big post dated checks 
 and then once their bags are  full of gold
 they cut out  at warp speed 
back to  the bright lights

  cut out and leave all those little brown suckers to
 rot in the streets
while the checks bounce 

 none of this for lady woodstock    

a proper empire takes the hits and 
shows another cheek now and again
a proper empire forgives and then 
 rebuilds better then before

 woodstockers  believe in sacrifice
sacrifice for a better world
and a better world plays by higher rules


 here’s a recipe 
 for a savory empire 


how about starting with  FDR’s
 vision 
 his  one world vision with all 
4 big freedoms 
and let everyone  trade trade trade

PLENTY OF TRADE 
fair mutual benefit  progressive light giving trade 

then lets add 
Truman’ s Marshall plan type lending
to the down beaten members of the 
 freedom parade 
 (as resources permit 
 ofcourse) 

finally lets  
pour  some  
 Kennedy peace corps action 
 all over them 

but lets pour  it a lot  thicker and faster
then up till now 
maybe not the paultry  3 thousand corps 
but a  robust  300 thousand corps 
 
 then  throw in a little  of old   mattress Jacks  
 patented
  ick bin ein what not .....pay any price
 type  vig   

 and after we  serve that up
 enough times 
 to any and all takers 
out there in  the global village  
 my bets 
 we can have ourselves
 right back in a nam still  situation 
 in say 10 years maximum 


I jest ofcourse

if we want to build 
 a human rights empire
we got to pay the price

we got to accept  that  blood may  
 have to  flow out of a hole here and there
 now and again 

empires are run best by stoics 
look at  Marcus Aurelius for christ sakes

we got a lot to do here 

first off 
 we got to start with the responders 
  the globe’ s  cops have got to set the example

then we got to ...............

you get the picture don’t you


( watch out soldier boys
if lady   woodstocker ever  really
did  take over
 she’ll  have you all toe dancing in no time)




 calling all progressives 
 calling all progressives
wake up you sunken  turds
 
KORNEL HILARY  KLINTON IS US 

THE NEW DEALERS 
 BECAME THE COLD WARRIORS


this shit happens 
TIME AND TIME AGAIN 

we all should have seen
 it coming since kosovo at least

 Lady  Woodstock
as Castro noted in june   grew up on
 star trek 
grew up on the starship enterprise 

remember  federation rules, lass 

remember the prime directive

NO INTERFERENCE 
WITH NEW CIVILIZATIONS 

 but the fearless crew  of the star ship  enterprise
were forced
 by higher spiritual callings   to brake the prime directive
WEREN’T THEY 
 every single damn episode 

 WEREN’T THEY 
 
beam forward  Scotty 
to real world 90s


  kaptain boomer  clintox
is happily 
at the helm of the starship 
 american enterprise

he too has non intervention directives
he’s been   worshiping Wilsonian ideals 
  in public since Hanoi got bombed 
and old doc King got snuffed  

yet he too
 is  forced to brake 
 a   prime  directive 
 in Kosovo


 to avoid genocide
he bombs away 

was it a  good guy move ?

you bet !!!!

 the Swedes backed that caper didn’t they

and it all ended great
didn’t it 

 the Albinos or Albigentians or whatever 
  are mostly alive still i think 
we saved them 
 they’re  not the  ground fresheners 
 everyone thought they might become 
and those  peckerheaded Slurbs themselves
 hell they’re all  shriven
deeply  and totally shriven 

they’re  back being 
the peacable skiers and woodcutters 
 of yore 


and best of all
 
top polecat Slabamodamn Slobaskavich Slimeski 
 ended up detained  contained and  arraigned
 on terminal  heinosity charges
over at the  Brussel’s  world court  

 so whats the problem?

  multilateralism betrayed ?

 are you kidding
 put that in the trash can

 grow up Peter Pan 
 some times you can’t get 
 the global  green light 

captain Kirk needs to answer to a higher power
 then
  his  UN overnite ratings 

even if this is a real quality empire
the best empire of all time 
 some eggs will get dropped
 thats why its called an empire
and not a community of nations

 the emperor’s troopers are not 
  vigilantes

why?
 
 because it was the  emperor  that  sent them 


 wrapping up then

musical question for today 

whats that  we hear 
 toodling in the boomers ears

its its its 
 the spirit of empire jones 

maybe there really is a place
 for the well swung billy

 here and there
now and again 
 these are deadly dangerous times to be civilized 

 Isreal
 america’s mini me 
 after all really  could be us 
in a size zero suit 


 maybe after 9/11 
 theres more then you might think 
 to be said for us forming 
an   off shore  touring company 
 version of the 68 chicago  police riot
 
 mayor Daley with a human face 
 and a global reach 

 see where we’re   headed ? 

well its where we’ve been headed since ‘79
when those same  turbin types
grabbed the embassy folks in Iran
thats when the whole cycle restarted
 
 I  for one liked  us boomers  better 
when we were traitors

 i liked us better  back in the early seventies
when uncle SAM’s  shambling
 B-52 napalm   act made us sick

for now 
 the rest is silence

over and out Amigos  
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