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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Militia
Guys in masks,
With rifles,
On the streets
Subverting democracy.
Called to the polling stations
To intimidate you and me.
Called by their President
To subvert
The process of election.
Spreading fake news
About fraudulent voting
Without foundation.
Can this be happening
In the 21st Century?
That a President
Unleashes militia
In complete anarchy?
Opher – 30.9.2020
If ever there was a blatant attempt to subvert democracy, this was it.
What Trump has been doing is scandalous, yet they let him get away with it!
The man pours out fake news and lies.
He actively calls armed militia out on to the streets.
He’s inviting intimidation and violence.
He is trying to set an agenda that is as false as the stripper’s boobs.
This is unprecedented or should that be unpresidented?
Yet so many are falling for it.
That says reams about them.
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.
Following Orders
Just following orders
In their crisp uniforms.
For a career and a paycheque
They’d sell their vey souls.
Without mindless goons
Doing what they’re told,
Obeying all commands,
Carrying out their roles.
No tyrant can hold power,
No despot gain control,
No fascist power
Can ever reach its goal.
Just following orders.
Opher 29.1.2021
Everywhere I look around the world I see evil people and draconian laws being propped up by a bunch of faceless riot soldiers in helmets and body armour, clutching guns and batons, firing tear gas and water cannon, firing bullets, beating people senseless.
Everywhere I look they are dragging off bloodied protestors into trucks, into jails, into torture chambers and graves.
They put on their uniforms and lose their minds.
Fela Kuti called them zombies.
They are worse than that – I think they enjoy the power, the freedom to be brutal.
Every dictator is dependent on their armies of goons – just following orders.
The Time Comes
Dictators fall.
Even tyranny has its limits.
Like a pressure cooker
With the heat turned up –
Something gives.
Oppression creates fear
But fear can rapidly change to fury
When a certain point
Is reached.
People crowd the streets
Encased in teargas clouds,
Facing down
The faceless goons.
Shields are thumped.
Adrenaline flows.
Rubber bullets fly.
Trained robots charge.
Batons thud on heads.
But if the people are united,
Determined and resolute
The regime falls.
Opher – 17.8.2020