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If people were forced 
to eat what they killed 
there would be no more wars. 
If we were compelled to 
obey the words of Jesus 
there would be 
no starvation 
no aggravation 
no hatred 
We would live in peace. 
Our values are strange. 
You are not real until 
you have a piece of paper 
declaring that you have been born. 
As you grow older 
the pile of paper increases 
and indicates the control 
that is exercised over us all. 
We live in one large armed camp 
that devours the idealism of youth 
trapping us in credit and debts. 
We have possessions, but we do 
not have peace. 
Violence on the streets 
is blamed on the poor. 
The rich man hides in his 
fortress and complains about 
the race problem; the drug problem; 
the unemployment problem; 
the homeless problem. 
His answer to the 'problems' is 
to increase his home security. 
He lives in splendour but 
he does not know peace. 
The conservative element thinks 
the movement amongst people 
for peace comes from the enemy. 
The ideology of change is foreign. 
Instead it is preferred that chains 
be increased over the minds 
of the people under their feet. 
Exploitation of resources is known 
as economic security. 
The answer to anarchy is to collect the 
young men and send them off 
to fight in a war. 
They make speeches, but still 
we do not have peace. 
The moral code of the world 
has deserted into a state of anarchy. 
Chaos rules our cities and drugs 
inhibit our will to be free. 
Our universities have been 
conditioned not to educate, instead 
to turn out more drones for the hive 
The mindset is that a degree is 
only used to create employment. 
There is fear in educating the masses 
to their capability to be free. 
The entire game is to create divisions 
that set one group against another. 
Fight in wars that are not ours 
and dream of flags and medals 
as something to be desired. 
Preparations are underway to 
implant methods to destroy 
our collective will to breath. 
It is a strange sort of world 
that calls itself free 
when death 
stalks our cities. 
If people were forced 
to eat what they killed 
there would be no more wars. 
We would have peace.