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WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DO NOTHING
WHEN GOOD PEOPLE DO NOTHING
The eighteen century statesman Edmund Burke, says
“For evil to prevail good men need do nothing.” What
Was done at Ruby Ridge, Waco and Wounded Knee?
We live in an age of perfunctory tacit approval or of
Disapproval as if electronic intimacy is enough but
Inwardly we long for the hero in us to step forward.
Today we have conquistadors of oil lands seeking
Hegemony under benighted Christian causes, measuring
Our valor in barrels of oil and corporate contracts.
When has the world ever been safe from those who
Project their fears onto a demonized people or from
Those who seek to project their shadow onto others.
No country in Africa is safe if there is oil or diamonds
To be wrested from by the global corpocracy. It is a
Bizarre world where growth is measure by death.
Neither is the Kyoto Treaty good for the economy;
Good people will go on doing nothing as the earth
Chokes and goodness is overcome by emissions.
