Showing posts with label evangelical cowboys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evangelical cowboys. Show all posts

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Cowardly Wacko Questions Defense Spending


Why is our military spending more than all the other countries combined
Is it any wonder they all view us as reckless, ignorant, evangelical cowboys

Why does every single politician fear being labeled as soft on defense
Where is the conservatives outcry over this runaway criminal arms gravytrain

Why do we need a multi-billion dollar space-based missile defense system...
When the roads, bridges, plumbing and schools are falling apart in our town

How come we need more squadrons of $80,000,000 fighter jets...
If there are not enough helicopters here at home during natural disasters

Why must we be prepared to engage two conventional enemies at once...
Given the fact that there is not even one conventional enemy to fight

How is it we spend a trillion$ just to strengthen terrorists in oil-rich states...
But we let our own children grow up ignorant, obese, amoral and uninsured

What kind of sense does it make to spend 500 times more on arms than energy research...
since the military machine runs on fuel imported from potential enemies

What preposterous logic makes defense spending a non-discretionary item
Where is that pure child who stands up and says the military king is naked

How do we manage to spend half a trillion per year with annual increases...
But still need those extra hundred someodd billion to kill a so-called few dead-enders

Why must we cut social spending to pay off unfunded and unfair tax cuts...
Where is that single political voice asking instead to cut out some of that huge military tumor

Where did all that money go if the Humvees have no armor
Why do our combat soldiers wind up buying their own survival equipment

Who made unquestioned arms spending the most basic form of patriotism
Is it really Jesus who whispers that we need to dole out more military contracts

Where is there a reasoned debate over the sanity of this criminal largesse
Why is the military-industrial complex the most powerful force in our land

How is it that only wackos and cowards call for examining defense spending
How can arms money always be spent so wisely if social programs are always so wasteful

What sense does it make for us to pay to be the world’s policeman...
While other countries invest money in their economies and education

With all that money why must our war wounded fight for their health care
With all of our military hightech, why are we at the mercy of simple homemade bombs

What would Ben Franklin say about our bloated defense procurements
Why are Fiscally Conservative hawks so free-spending with unaudited cost-plus military contracts

Who infused politicians with the mortal fear of questioning any military outlay
Does our wrathful God really demand this bloated annual tithe of blood money

Could there possibly be just a little greed and gain behind this holy patriotism
Isn’t it really an insider’s game and a well-oiled con played with a wink and a nod

Why is this metastasizing catastrophic malignancy so universally accepted
How insecure would we really be if we simply cut our defense spending in half

How come we spend billions yet bogeymen in sandals living in caves still taunt us
Why do we need bunker busters if we cannot defend ourselves against crude IEDs

Why not train soldiers in our revered christian practices along with death and destruction
How about spending a thousandth of the killing budget on research to end war

How long before you outsource military technology and entire infantry platoons
How can history judge this feverish and unquestioned build up in a kindly fashion

Are we driven by extreme paranoia or is it just a sick attempt to control the world
Which way does our moral compass actually point if weapons are our largest exports

How are uncontrolled defense outlays really so unlike failed liberal social policies
Why is it unpatriotic and cowardly to question the ever-increasing spending

Why aren’t new missiles debated on costs and benefits just like pollution rules
Why does the military pay hyper-inflated prices to a greedy mafia of corporate oligarchs

How do you feel as you explain your military policies to groups of children
Are these really matters of national security or simply criminal concealment

Who will design your next generation of killing and destroying apparatus...
Since you have cut education funds to pay for bullets, hardware and bodies

Does our personal relationship with Christ really demand so much blood sacrifice...
Or has Satan deceived us into sinful deficit spending on death and destruction

Friday, September 10, 2010

Thru faith in His will, With His blessing, In His Name, As he watches over us



In god’s name we strap on explosives and blow ourselves to bloody pieces
          Inside worker’s buses and trendy restaurants

With god’s blessing we plant millions of land mines throughout the countryside
          To mutilate peaceful farmers, gentle oxen and little children

As god watches over us we dutifully follow His wise edicts
          And perform horrific atrocities upon animals prior to consuming them

According to god’s will we keep the women ignorant and cover up their faces
          But nonetheless we count upon them to raise our children in the proper way

Through faith in god we find the strength to face our heathen enemies
          We kill them safely in the knowledge that He is on our side


In god’s name we build the nuclear bombs and the chemical weapons
          Thus, we do to exact the terrible vengeance that He demands

With god’s blessing we murder those from sects closely related to our own
          For ours is a jealous god who calls upon us to exact His bloody vengeance

As god watches over us we teach our children to hate and then to kill
          So that they may carry on the mission to which we alone have been assigned

According to god’s will we swear death to all the infidels
          And such acts of violence will earn each of us a place in heaven

Through faith in god and via endless repetition
          We learn to accept unspeakable acts that others cannot condone


In god’s name we extol the poor to follow rules revealed to only his followers
          And quiet them with magical ceremonies, threats and empty promises of salvation

With god’s blessing we foul the air, muddy the waters and extract the minerals
          And as we leave, we exude a wondrous but totally false sense of moral rectitude

As god watches over us we listen carefully to our hearts for His good counsel
          Thusly, are we absolved of any culpability in all decisions civic and governmental

According to god’s will the tsunami was unleashed upon those foul sinners
          And its inscrutable message forges our unquestioned loyalty ever stronger

Through faith in god we find the purity of our hatred for the evil enemy
          Then we are free to let our washed hands be the instrument of His plans


In god’s name do we withhold funds that might be used for contraception
          For god tells us that sinful fornication should become virtuous abstinence

With god’s blessing we condemn to hell the homosexuals and the masturbators
          The lesbians and the divorcees, even as the pedophiles still do His chosen work

As god watches over us we direct freedom upon its bloody march
          And proclaim to one and all that they must be either with us or against us

According to god’s will we rape the wilderness so that we can drive to the mall
          There to purchase the fruits of subhuman foreign slave labor for next to nothing

Through faith in god we gain the strength to pursue our pointless greed
          Freed by moral strictures to waste and ruin and then to walk away in grace


In god’s name we spend those trillions on our so-called national defense
          To force an abject and inhuman lifestyle upon foreign religious fanatics

With god’s blessing we seek to remove the blasphemy of science from our schools
          Under His watchful eye we substitute memorized scripture for scientific method

As god watches over each of us we all know Him intimately as our personal savior
          And with a vast relief do we cast aside the great burden of our reason

According to god’s will we must march ever forward, never looking back
          Fortified by the pabulum of the priests, the chosen herd is led to heaven

Through faith in god we find the will to impose our revealed truth upon all others
          To smash the devil’s armies whose fanatical teachings we rightfully oppose


In god’s name we vow to destroy all the works of the great satan
          By remaining true to the vision the one great god has shared with us alone

With god’s blessing we proclaim our people’s duty to slay every one of his enemies
           Using any means at hand, anywhere, without regard for age or sex or color

As god watches over us we enjoy the moral freedom granted to us as his chosen people
          We lay it all off into His hands and sleep so very soundly every night

According to god’s will we permit garbage and cast-off filth to fill the land
          And the earth that sustains us to be destroyed for families, jobs and money

Through faith in god we find answers to the questions that we are afraid to ask
          Thus fortified we lower our heads and let our precious moments pass


 In god’s name do we condemn the clerics whose holy fatwas rail against us
          While seeking to control the godless demon that is modern science

With god’s blessing do we cut the programs for the poor and the environment
          While spending more for killing and granting further advantage to the rich

As god watches over us we are content to trust in Him alone to show us the way
          Secure that our blind faith directs our march ever on to an eternal grace

According to god’s will we deem the corporations fit to rule behind the scenes
          Yet we ask them not for wisdom but to mind the bottom line

Through faith in god we internalize the growing contradictions that beset us
          As we ride in air-conditioned comfort past our brother’s squalid shacks


In god’s name we gerrymander voting districts to ensure our ongoing control
          While the brooding mullahs appoint cronies in their own awful theocracies

With god’s blessing we mutely condone the unending crimes going on in Africa
          And demonstrate our own moral superiority by torturing unlawful combatants

As god watches over us we place more and more black men in bigger prisons
          Stirring them together to learn violence, crime, hatred and addiction

According to god’s will we reject world treaties on land mines, chemical weapons
          Global warming, women and children’s rights and a world court

Through faith in god we encourage cheap imports that destroy our factory jobs
          Even as we subsidize the outsourcing of all forms of intellectual labor


In god’s name we spy,conceal, cover up and spin to further our blessed struggle
          While spotlighting phony bogeymen designed to divert attention from real issues

With god’s blessing do we subject research findings to twisted political catchphrases
          And dismiss or silence those within the ranks who dare to speak against us

As god watches over us we calmly listen to our hearts after talking to our donors
          Supporting their decisions absolutely free of any nagging afterthoughts

According to god’s will a government is by the rich, of the rich, and for the rich
          And his blessings trickle down through the sewer grates to the filthy masses

Through faith in god we ignore overpopulation and environmental destruction
          To focus on abortion, obscenity, phantom WMDs and the sanctity of marriage


 In god’s name we pay the mighty corporations to build more and bigger weapons
          While leaving increasing millions each year without any health care

With god’s blessing we spend today and leave the bills to the future
          Using up our resources and raising children to live in ignorance and debt

As god watches over us we spend a trillion dollars to set a people free
          And when it rains now in their capital, raw sewage fills their ravaged streets

According to god’s will we censor carefully the news from the front
          Avoiding horrific images that might upset the gently clucking flock

Through faith in god we see beyond our crack-infested and rotting ghettos
          To the shining and safely barred havens of that one percent who rule


In god’s name we renounce the fuzzy thinking behind so-called global warming
          And leap straight from scientific uncertainty to the safe & literal truth of scripture

With god’s blessing India competes with China to have the largest population
          And names its holy nuclear missiles after Shiva, their god of destruction

As god watches over us we craft ourselves warm and folksy images to gain their votes
          Then raise their taxes, export their jobs and mortgage their degraded futures

According to god’s will we forge our holy unilateral international policies
          Telling our brothers that they are either with us or against us

Through faith in god we are able to will ourselves to accept on faith alone
          Those awful things that happen that no religion can explain


In god’s name do we go forth to endlessly multiply our numbers
          Safe in the knowledge that the earth was created as our domain alone

With god’s blessing we cover our women’s faces, keep them ignorant,
          Restrict their movements, prohibit their voting and keep them ever pregnant

As god watches over us we calmly ignore impending fuel shortages,
          Water scarcity, soil degradation, heavy metals and ceaseless heat

According to gods will we strap on bombs full of nails and glass
          To maim the enemy in his home and assure ourselves a place in heaven

Through faith in god the young boys and the widows are drawn into our churches
          Where those pledged to serve him take them carnally at His pleasure
 

 In god’s name we franchise our religions which compete like soft drink companies
          For a tax-deductible weekly tithe they guarantee will ensure eternal salvation

With god’s blessing we sit alone in 3 ton vehicles stalled in traffic jams
          Anxiously consuming fast food as smarmy salesmen ceaselessly hold forth

As god watches over us we grind the sweet earth into a sewage ridden muck
          Righteously pursuing forgotten goals which long ago stopped making sense

According to god’s will we need only listen to His voice from within our hearts
          To live righteously and in piety without fear of His, the only, recrimination

Through faith in god we see our way clear to sanction genocide and plague
          Standing up for the rights of the unborn while denying them a decent future


In god’s name we spend good money to try and stop the sin called prostitution
          Even as we ignore those teenage mothers who bear more of the little hookers

With god’s blessing we cleanse our consciences and are filled with righteousness
          condoning great duplicities in the name of any of the many one true saviors

As god watches over us we stupefy our children with legal prescription drugs
          Then wonder why they sit passively in silence, before electronic altars

According to god’s will other children die quickly from drinking sewage water
          Or slowly waste away from tuberculosis or malaria, aided by malnutrition

Through faith in god we overcome the overwhelming contradictions of our lives
          Freed from contemplation of the infinite, the unknowable and the void


In god’s name we kill the infidels as they gather to celebrate their heathen idols
          We die with His name upon our smiling lips, confident in our just salvation

With god’s blessing our sons and daughters are disfigured by improvised explosives
          Convinced that their placement is an act of the ultimate in religious faith

As god watches over us we trash the almost-new and litter the half-consumed
          While millions elsewhere make their living pawing through toxic garbage dumps

According to god’s will, icecaps melt, the heat increases and the droughts go on
          Verily, we fear no evil though His ways remain to us a sacred mystery

Through faith in god we are granted the courage of our convictions, right or wrong
          And as faith requires, hold fast our beliefs no matter suffering or evidence


In god’s name we bless the plastic explosives and the rigged up cellular phones
          Asking Him to permit us be the instrument of His will upon this earth