Is murder condoned in the USA now?
Do we have Trump’s masked militia deciding who lives and dies?
What is utterly inexcusable is:
Not just the execution of good people – Renee Good and Alex Pretti – which is disgusting and unjustifiable –
But the administrations condoning of these murders. That puts them on a par with Putin and Iran.
You cannot flood cities with armed masked men who violently bully and shoot people with impunity. That is Gestapo tactics. That is what happens in a police state. It is not acceptable in a democratic, free country.
You cannot have those in charge immediately accusing good citizens who are peacefully using their democratic rights to protest being labelled as domestic terrorists. That is diabolical.
You cannot have government goons killing people – firing three shots into a woman’s face from close range – firing ten shots into a nurse shielding two abused women who had been violently shoved over by government thugs – gloatingly saying ‘You Fucking Bitch’ after shooting Renee dead or pumping ten bullets into Alex Pretti and saying ‘Boo Hoo’. That is inexcusable.
You cannot have Trump and Noem lying about the incidents. Renee Good was NOT driving at Jonathan Ross. She was clearly steering away. Alex Pretti had a legally allowable handgun in a holster with no intention of using it. It was taken off him before he was murdered. For Trump and Noem to blatantly lie and justify the murders by saying these two good citizens were domestic terrorists, that Renee was using her car as a weapon, that Alex was armed and dangerous, is a travesty of justice, law and order.
We cannot have the sheer hypocrisy of Trump and his administration. It is alright in their eyes for armed thugs to attack the Capitol and kill police guards while hunting down politicians. It is alright for Kyle Rittenhouse to take to the streets with an assault rifle and kill two people. But it’s not alrght for a law-abiding citizen to have a holstered handgun while filming the violence of masked ICE goons and protecting women from their violence. Talk about dual standards. This administration openly supports extreme right-wing groups like the Oath Takers and Proud Boys (actively recruiting them into ICE) and labels anybody filming ICE activities on their phones as far-left agitators and domestic terrorists. This is fascism in action.
What should have happened is obvious to any civilised person:
Each incident should be fully investigated by unbiased law enforcement and courts and those involved, Jonathan Ross and the nameless masked goons, made to try to justify their actions and be held accountable in a court of law – like any law enforcer.
Fortunately, we have the bravery of bystanders who are prepared to peacefully monitor and record the thuggery. Without them we would only have Trump and Noem’s lying accounts of what is going on. We can see. We have the evidence! Thank you all the brave people of Minnesota!
What is happening in the USA is an outrage – a stain on civilisation. The sooner these incompetent Nazis are out of power the better!
Bravery – Fela Kuti – Zombie!
This is what bravery looks and sounds like. This guy stood up to tyranny in Nigeria!!
Song by Africa 70 and Fela Kuti
Zombie o, zombie (zombie o, zombie)
Zombie o, zombie (zombie o, zombie)
Zombie no go go, unless you tell ’em to go (zombie)
Zombie no go stop, unless you tell ’em to stop (zombie)
Zombie no go turn, unless you tell ’em to turn (zombie)
Zombie no go think, unless you tell ’em to think (zombie)
Zombie o, zombie (zombie o, zombie)
Zombie o, zombie (zombie o, zombie)
Zombie no go go, unless you tell ’em to go (zombie)
Zombie no go stop, unless you tell ’em to stop (zombie)
Zombie no go turn, unless you tell ’em to turn (zombie)
Zombie no go think, unless you tell ’em to think (zombie)
Zombie o, zombie (zombie o, zombie)
Zombie o, zombie (zombie o, zombie)
Tell them to go straight
A joro, jara, joro
No break, no job, no sense
A joro, jara, joro
Tell ’em to go kill
A joro, jara, joro
No break, no job, no sense
A joro, jara, joro
Tell them to go quench
A joro, jara, joro
No break, no job, no sense
A joro, jara, joro
Go and kill (joro, jaro, joro)
Go and die (joro, jaro, joro)
Go and quench (joro, jaro, joro)
Put ’em for reverse (joro, jaro, joro)
Go and quench (joro, jaro, joro)
Go and kill (joro, jaro, joro)
Go and die (joro, jaro, joro)
Put ’em for reverse (joro, jaro, joro)
Go and die (joro, jaro, joro)
Go and quench (joro, jaro, joro)
Go and kill (joro, jaro, joro)
Put ’em for reverse (joro, jaro, joro)
Uh-huh
Joro, jara, joro
Zombie wey na one way
Joro, jara, joro
Zombie wey na one way
Joro, jara, joro
Zombie wey na one way
Joro, jara, joro
Attention (zombie), quick march
Slow march (zombie), left turn
Right turn (zombie), about turn
Double up (zombie), salute
Open your hat (zombie), stand at ease
Fall in (zombie), fall out
Fall down (zombie), get ready
Attention (zombie), quick march
Slow march (zombie), left turn
Right turn (zombie), about turn
Double up (zombie), salute
Open your hat (zombie), stand at ease
Fall in (zombie), fall out
Halt (zombie)
Order
Whoa
Attention (zombie), quick march
Slow march (zombie), left turn
Right turn (zombie), about turn
Double up (zombie), salute
Open your hat (zombie), stand at ease
Fall in (zombie), fall out
Fall down (zombie), get ready
Attention (zombie), quick march
Slow march (zombie), left turn
Right turn (zombie), about turn
Double up (zombie), salute
Open your hat (zombie), stand at ease
Fall in (zombie), fall out
Fall down (zombie), get ready
Halt
Order
One more time, everybody
Attention (zombie), quick march
Slow march (zombie), left turn
Right turn (zombie), about turn
Double up (zombie), salute
Open your hat (zombie), stand at ease
Fall in (zombie), fall out
Fall down (zombie), get ready
Attention (zombie), quick march
Slow march (zombie), left turn
Right turn (zombie), about turn
Double up (zombie), salute
Open your hat (zombie), stand at ease
Fall in (zombie), fall out
Fall down (zombie), get ready
Halt
Order
Dismiss
Zombie, zombie
Zombie, zombie
Zombie, zombie
Zombie, zombie
Zombie, zombie
Zombie, zombie
Zombie, zombie
Zombie, zombie
Zombie, zombie
Empty Words
Empty Words
Killing people
What gives you the right?
Tools
Of the regime.
Willing goons.
Vicious thugs.
Desensitised.
Bullets and pliers,
Electricity
And hate.
Killing for profit.
Killing for fun.
Killing to order.
Killing’s never done.
Massacre
And torture
Threats
And fear.
Every despot needs an army.
Without thugs
They are helpless,
Useless,
Pathetic.
Just empty words.
You, who serve,
With boot and gun;
Who legitimise
The tyrant
Against your own people,
Are the true traitorous scum.
You turn
Empty words
Into blood and death.
Opher 28.11.2024
I watch the vicious crack-down on the people of Iran – the rape and torture. It’s the same the world over – from Pinochet in Chile to Botha in South Africa – The East German Stasi and Nazi – Khomeini just another tyrant! But all these tyrants have one thing in common – they employ thugs to do their dirty work! Without the torturing, massacring thugs they would have no power.
And what of these mindless goons who carry out the orders of these powerful men? What motivates them? Money? Power? Pleasure?
They put aside their morality and take up arms against the very people they are part of. Do they feel superior? Do they feel justified?
Have they merely been desensitised?
Fela Kuti called them Zombies!
They are worse than that! There are no words to describe the level these torturers and murderers have stooped to!
Scum!!
Instruments of the State
Instruments of the State
In the middle of the night,
Snatching off crowded streets,
Storming through doors,
Crashing through windows,
Incarcerating,
Torturing,
Murdering
On behalf of the State.
Following orders,
Dispensing rough justice,
Intimidating,
Terrorising,
Hiding behind masks,
Safe within body armour,
Emotionally numb,
Minds blank,
Awaiting instruction.
Opher – 7.9.2020
The Life of Lies
The Life of Lies
The life of lies
Is always our business.
Democracy depends on us.
Tyranny depends on lies.
The goons tie us up
And rob us of our rights.
The right to protest.
The right to speak truth.
Without the truth
There is no justice.
Without truth
There is no life.
Tyrants cannot stand
The power of truth,
Waging war against it.
Goons are the traitors who keep us in chains.
Opher – 27.11.2022
I was watching the news yesterday. It was the same as every other day. Protests in the streets that were declared illegal. People smacked on the head with wooden batons. A man face down, trussed with his hands behind his back tied to his feet. A bunch of helmeted government goons in riot gear beating the shit out of protesters.
These goons are the traitors. They are defending the regimes of evil tyrants, turning against their own people.
TRAITORS!!
Goons
Goons
They follow orders without question,
Shooting their own in the back.
They don their uniforms, turn off their minds
And always hunt in packs.
They’re the goons.
They bask in their power.
They kill with impunity
While people cower.
They learn to torture rape and gas
Which becomes their stock in trade.
Stand proud in lines, in uniform
In the big parades.
They’re the goons.
The bask in their power.
They kill with impunity
While people cower.
Without these heartless minions
The world would be a better place.
These tools of the tyrants
A disgrace to the human race.
They’re the goons.
The bask in their power.
They kill with impunity
While people cower.
Opher – 10.4.2021
Everywhere you look around the world you see them. They are dressed in body armour and are armed to the teeth. They are the ones who beat up protestors, who go around in the night rounding people up. They take them to underground dungeons to torture and degrade as a warning. They bury the bodies.
You see them everywhere – where-ever where people are fighting for justice or to oppose a tyrannical regime. In South America, Nigeria, Hong Kong, China, North Korea, the USA, Myanmar, Israel, it’s the same faceless brutal state thugs – the Stormtroopers, torturers and tools of the despot – the ones shooting unarmed protestors – and enjoying it.
Without these nasty arrogant little pieces of scum no oppressor can ever hold power.
They strut about in their uniforms thinking they have power.
The goon is the enemy of us all – the expression of fascism, the long arm of oppression.
Goons
Goons
They follow orders without question,
Shooting their own in the back.
They don their uniforms, turn off their minds
And always hunt in packs.
They’re the goons.
The bask in their power.
They kill with impunity
While people cower.
They learn to torture rape and gas
Which becomes their stock in trade.
Stand proud in lines, in uniform
In the big parades.
They’re the goons.
The bask in their power.
They kill with impunity
While people cower.
Without these heartless minions
The world would be a better place.
These tools of the tyrants
A disgrace to the human race.
They’re the goons.
The bask in their power.
They kill with impunity
While people cower.
Opher – 10.4.2021
Everywhere you look around the world you see them. They are dressed in body armour and are armed to the teeth. They are the ones who beat up protestors, who go around in the night rounding people up. They take them to underground dungeons to torture and degrade as a warning. They bury the bodies.
You see them everywhere – where-ever where people are fighting for justice or to oppose a tyrannical regime. In South America, Nigeria, Hong Kong, China, North Korea, the USA, Myanmar, Israel, it’s the same faceless brutal state thugs – the Stormtroopers, torturers and tools of the despot – the ones shooting unarmed protestors – and enjoying it.
Without these nasty arrogant little pieces of scum no oppressor can ever hold power.
They strut about in their uniforms thinking they have power.
The goon is the enemy of us all – the expression of fascism, the long arm of oppression.
Poetry – What Makes a Goon?
What Makes a Goon?
What makes a goon?
Strutting in uniforms
With body armour and masks.
What makes a goon?
Behind their shields
With their guns and batons.
What makes a goon?
Following orders
Mindlessly dispensing violence.
What makes a goon?
Arm of the State
Merchants of terror.
What makes a goon?
Beating heads
Stiffling protest.
What makes a goon?
Teargas and bullets
Terror and power
What makes a goon?
Mindless zombies
Faceless thugs.
What makes a goon?
Expressionless
Emotionless.
What makes a goon?
Instruments of tyranny
Never questioning.
What makes a goon?
Unquestioning
Vehicles of oppression.
What makes anybody want to give up their individuality, their ability to reason, and become an enemy of the people?
Opher – 7.9.2020
These faceless men in uniform are merely obeying orders. They do as they are instructed, without question.
Perhaps they should start to question a lot more?
But their training in one long session of brain-washing – follow instructions, obey, do not think. You are a machine. You are a goon – a vehicle of the state.
You cannot question authority. They are always right.
Thus dictator after dictator, tyrant after tyrant, is propped up by mindless goons.
Poetry – Goons of War
Goons of War
They give their souls away.
Just obeying orders.
Trained not to think.
Told they’re protecting borders.
No longer reasoning people:
Zombies with no brains.
Thrown their morality
With their freedom down the drains.
Following all their orders
Without question or doubt.
Killing without mercy.
No need to work it out.
They are called soldiers.
Mindless morons
Following orders.
Opher – 6.4.2022
Why would anybody throw away their freedom, allow themselves to be moulded into a mindless killing machine, a tool of the state?
Why would they become a soldier, a secret policeman, a goon?
These mindless morons do as they are told without question. They have no vestiges of humanity as they dispense death to the innocent.
Without them tyrants cannot exist.