January 07, 2003

HOME LAND VS. AWAY LAND


thank god
at long last we  now  have
 two domains  of security
 
a homeland security 
 
and a national security 
 

if still cleverly mislabeled
 national interests are now clearly 
seperated from true blue  homeland interests 

 till now for 60 years 
 they were conflated 

 its been a big muddle since pearl harbor 
 now ironically 9/11 “ the second pearl harbor”
 may 
give some of us a chance 
to rethink the whole game plan




take that wicked  euphemism 

American interests


 
that's overseas stuff right  
and we don’t mean tourists 
in a bus headed for the Acropolis  
or medical students 
cutting up stiffs at some  clip rate 
 tropical  med school


 
not even our embassies and 
off shore  military bases 
are really 
primary american interests

MILITARY BASES 
 american interests

fuck NO 

 the bases are there 
 cause we got interests 
--------------------------------------------
today 
what the fuck else 
could american interests be 

today 
american interests are
  corporate interests 
private corporate interests 

not religious conversion projects 

or other do good dribble 
that's the mellon balls 

the meal the meat 
the stuff they bring ya on the big platter 
that's 
corporate through and through 

banks and pipelines and mine shafts and 
 electric plants
 and
 what else
and
  what ever
and
 what have you 

including every conceivable 
type of  intangible 
 
Y O U OWE ME
 
from 
rights of way
 to 
exclusive licenses
to
 controling interests 

-----------------------------------------------
 
now at last 

 with a department of homeland security 

finally  we can talk about 

the one 

that is our own security at home here 

without the other 


we can be for increasing 
the  one
 while deep sixing   the other


we can show 
we’re for 
 protecting 
this fine country of ours

we can show 
our willingness 
to pay billions for homeland defense

if thats what it takes 

but not a penny 
to arm and protect 
even one overseas
corporate adventure project 

 our operating  principle
can be simplicity itself 

 if some of our fellow  americans
 want to go some where
 outside our borders 
if they want to 
 stay to play
  some where
 anywhere   out there
 
it better not require 
 the UNITED STATES' MARINES  
to shoot a  way in 
or  a way out 
for them

or rescue their property 
or collect their bills either

that's a matter between each
highly private  american 
and the governing authorities 
of the said target  nation 
he or she is licking their chops over 

caveat gringo !!!!!!
--------------------------------------------
breath easy folks 

now we can be 
all about domestic security

now we can ask 

what is this 
overseas national security 
bit anyway 

we can ask 
how's it national ?

for that god damn matter 
we can ask 
how’s it patriotic

patriotic means
 the love of  our land 

the land under our feet 
gods grace to us lucky suckers 

not some sister fucking 
 cane farm in Luzon
or an oil rig  at the mouth of the  Gambia 
or a tin shed whacking out sneakers in Java

what's that got to do with me
or you or this bright and free land of ours  


ask the bastards every time 
the one question 

why    
beyond our shores and borders ? 

they got no decent
security  answer
never in our history have we been less 
vulnerable 
and i don’t mean terror tot 
 symbolics here 
i mean substantial
external  threat to our way of life 
-------------------------------------------------------------
is the system of nation states 
really lined up one after the other 
like a set of 200 dominos 
knock one down and ....

are we really the last domino
no matter who’s the first 

fuck no !
 
sure Pearl and the Towers
 prove  we can get whacked 

 its going to happen from time to time
 
  but hey guys 
  both of those acts proved the same point 

 we don’t go down do we 

no 
the message is clear 

YOU STRIKE 
 US 
YOU PAY 

NO better yet

YOU OVER PAY 
-------------------------------
then again 
Pearl was an attack by a nation state 
we squeezed cause 
it was cutting into our pacific action 

and 
  the towers were hit by terrorists
cause we’re running
sheik puppets
 
funding fort Isreal 

and stationing troops
in the Gulf 
 for the  oil boys 

 those motives to strike at us 
 can’t exist
 if we keep the guns
 at home 
and  
when we  travel
 don’t expect to buy up the place 
or build their future to our specs 
-----------------------------------
what about the terrorists?


now i’m not saying 
don’t  declare war on 
the terrorists 
if that's your game fine 

IT'S NOT MY GAME 
 
BUT SHIT WE GOT HERE
 A  DEMOCRACY OR
 AT LEAST IT CARRIES THAT LABEL 
SO SUIT YOURSELF FOLKS 

you got a right to defend your selves
and    going where they're at
 to get them 
  no matter where they're at 

 no one could fault you  for that
and people of good will won’t fault you 
no matter how many sovereign borders 
you have to  cross

I GOT A FOR INSTANCE 
we didn’t do this but we could have 

go into Afghanistan whack away 
at those fucking terror camps
boots on the ground 
whack away
 whack away 
whack away all 

but do it  directly
and  then 
get the fuck straight out

no TALIBANDIT TOPPLES 

nope that's tampering 
with  sovereignty
that's tampering with people's rights 
to determine  their own destiny

 
I’M straight out partial 
to proper punitive  raids 

like the old shores of  Tripoli
thing we pulled 
 under Jeff 


but pull some topple shit
even if it's humane as hell 
forget it
believe me under every 
pretty looking  humane shell 
theres a profit slug 
that makes it crawl around 

monster hunts are for the UN 
to organize 
not EXXON-SHELL 

end of story   
--------------------------------------------


Posted by pinky at January 7, 2003 08:14 AM

Post a comment

Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)

(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)


Remember me?