Author’s note: some of these links are out of date and will be replaced
Greenland quietly ‘allowed’ to join whalemurdering Japan, Norway, Denmark, US (Makah), Iceland
World Environment News - Greenland Allowed To Hunt Humpback Whales Again - Planet Ark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wg8-rehVgw
International Halls of Shame
United Nations: encouraging pig, cow and other slaughter through the FAO and World Trade Organization….aggressive promotion of lethal vaccines
European Union: subsidizes slaughterhouse and factory farm
products and allows cosmetic industry to delay ending animal torture
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Albania one of 3 European countries which does not consider
torture of animals a crime
Algeria: Drift net fishing kills many species not wanted by the fishermen
Angola:
Critically endangered animals of Angola
http://www.animalinfo.org/country/angola.htm
Argentina
cattle concentration camps and slaughterhouses
Armenia
conflict over proposed confinement of dolphins
http://www.armenialive.com/armenian-news/Armenia–Animal-Rights-Debate-Building-In-Yerevan
Australia
6 million kangaroos murdered annually
http://thomaspainescorner.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/brutal-kangaroo-slaughter-say-no-to-china-and-australia/
sheep cruelty http://savethesheep.com/ slicing sheep, drawing blood
time to end live shipment annually of millions of cows, sheep, pigs
http://www.all-creatures.org/alert/alert-20101115.html
Is mammal murder Australia’s largest industry… generating history breaking drought with the slaughter
of untold billions of cows and sheep
Australia: In New South Wales, the park service had thousands of brumbies (wild horses)
murdered by aerial hunters.
http://www.savethebr…rial-slaughter/
untold numbers of rabbits being exterminated
Austria:
Government harrassing of animal rights activists
Azerbaijan:
Animals in zoo.. small barren cages of concrete and bars
Bangladesh:
cooperates with Heifer International’s promotion of slavery and slaughter for baby animals
Otters exploited to help suffocate fishes
Belarus
trophy hunting http://krasnoselskoe…hy-animals.html
Belgium:
http://www.wetlands-preserve.org/
Allegations of police brutality in arrest of animal habitat activist
Belize
Strychnine still used in ‘shelters’ to kill ‘excess’ animals
http://www.thepetiti…RING-IN-BELIZE/
Bosnia:
one of 3 European countries which does not consider animal
torture a crime
Brazil
cattle ranches torture cows and destroy rainforest
Cargill allowed to spread drought through mass animal habitat destruction
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/forests/how-cattle-ranching-chewing-amazon-rainforest-20090129
3rd in murdered pigs
Brunei
live shipment of sheep
Bulgaria: One of 3 European countries which does not consider torture of animals a crime
Burma (Myanmar)
Illegal trade in tigers
http://www.guardian.co.uk”]www.guardian.co.uk
Cameroon
pet export scam
http://www.fraudwatchers.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2458
Cambodia:
One of the higher rates of animal habitat destroying deforestation
Canada:
It is time for the Commonwealth nations to lead the world in
pressuring their member nation Canada to stop ruthless
sealclubbing
aggressive promotion of mammal slaughterhouse products
encouraging wealthy trophy hunters to kill grizzly bears etc.
fur trade.. cruel trapping methods
Does Canada or Australia cause the world’s highest per capita
mammal murder rate?
http://www.hsus.orgwww.harpseals.orgwww.ifaw.org
Chad
Brutual ‘first fruits’ killing of bull
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=7268&start=45&edition=2&ttl=20100918195951
Chile
cattle ranches
Animal brutality married to misogyny.. Chilean gaucho ropes animal rights protester
and drags her out of rodeo
http://boingboing.net/2010/09/23/chile-17yo-girl-prot.html
China:
Pigs: 1st in murdered pigs: 446 billion in 2008… more than next 43 countries combined
Seals: The Chinese govt. recently chose to buy the meat of clubbed seals from the Harper govt. which kills harp seals
Primates: Breeding Primates for Lab Torture
Civet Cat Farms .. bred for perfume fixatives
Bear Farms
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0425-09.htm
Zoo abuse
http://wn.com/Animal_Abuse_at_Zoos_in_China_12
Factory farming of tigers in small cages
Tens of Millions of Birds slaughtered cruelly in avian flu scare
Dogs and cats.. served in restaurants… sometimes stolen from famlies
When China chose to double its egg production the grain of 18 countries was required
Rabbit murder videos on internet
Colombia:
Colombian govt. lets Goldman Sachs’ Henry Paulson
turn Nature Conservancy wilderness shrines into cattle ranches
1 of infinite bullfight atrocities: bullfight stands collapse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzGI5DnV_NI
Congo:
UK’s Guardian newspaper promotes guinea pig torture in Congo
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/16/guinea-pigs-food-congo-war
Costa Rica:
one of worst deforestation rates in bulldozing for cattle ranches
http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0812.htm
Croatia
http://mashable.com/2010/08/31/video-girl-throwing-puppies/
Cuba
cockfighting
Denmark:
Whale murdering each August in Faroe Islands reddens seas
http://www.denmark.net/blog/stop-whale-massacre-faroe-islands-483731.html
major killer of pigs
kills the most mink
Dominican Republic
horse mistreatment and other issues
http://dr1.com/artic…_rights_1.shtml
Ecuador
bullfighting
Egypt
In response to the WHO criminal conspiracy to push vaccines, Egypt ordered a mass
extermination of pigs
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Egyptian slaughterhouse violates Sharia
http://morrisonworldnews.com/?p=32410
Ethiopia
dog roundups
http://www.hsus.org/about_us/humane_society_international_hsi/cruelty_issues_around_the_world/dogs_millennium_ethiopia_091007.html
Finland
brutality of Finnish fur farms
http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/htimes/domestic-news/general/13151-finnish-animal-rights-group-publishes-fresh-abuse-footage-.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNW6_MO5vaI
Finland kills the most foxes
France
horse slaughterhouses
http://www.justsaywhoa.org/slaughterhouses.asp
force feeding of geese
French Guiana: Animals endangered
http://www.animalinf…ry/fr_guian.htm
Gambia
13 species have gone extinct in Gambia
http://vegananimal.blogspot.com/2009/09/gambia-thirteen-wild-animal-species.html
vote suspended by Int’l Whaling Comm. because of Japanese whale killers’ bribes
Georgia
Tbilisi animal cadaver market
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/60996
Germany:
allowing Bayer outside Germany to continue killing the world’s bees
force feeding of geese
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/pate-de-foie-gras-faces-ban-over-cruel-farm-methods-1046068.html
Germany is 5th in murdered pigs
Ghana
vote suspended by Int’l Whaling Comm. because of Japanese whale killers’ bribes
Greece
Greek activists say they released 50,000 mink
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/02/animal-rights-activists-claim-release-minks-northern-greece-532544658/
mistreatment of lambs and sheep
abuse of donkeys http://cretananimalwelfare.org/equines/
Greenland: quietly ‘allowed’ to join whalemurdering Japan, Norway, US (Makah),
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Guatemala
bullfights http://www.iwab.org/campaign.htmlparrot nests robbed
http://www.animalawa…/en/about03.htm
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Guyana
not much legislation re prevention of cruelty to animals
Haiti:
animal sacrifice
Iceland: killing whales
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6059564.stm
http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/58773
India
Save port sea turtles
http://seaturtles.org/index.php
overloaded, exploited animals (oxen, donkeys, elephants etc.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCdBtDcGdoQ
Indonesia
Dogs given strychnine, writhe in agony…. while CBS, Yahoo etc. put out disinformation
that dogs are rabid
http://wn.com/Strychnine_on_Bali_Dogs
Wildlife trafficking
http://www.profauna.org/content/en/pressrelease/2010/wildlife_illegal_trade_and_smuggling_in_indonesia_remains_high.html
animal deaths through habitat destruction, deforestation
Iran
cruelty to dogs
http://www.desivideonetwork.com/view/1b2fucmu0/islam-in-iran-cruelty-towards-dogs-and-dog-owners/
cruelty to sturgeon in caviar production
Iraq
58,000 dogs destroyed…
http://www.hsus.org/pets/pets_related_news_and_events/enemies_of_the_state.html
propaganda re rabies and dog bites
Ireland
Mink farmed for furs
http://oceanfm.ie/news/2010/09/29/animal-rights-activists-blamed-for-mink-release/
Ireland’s abandoned horses face possible slaughter
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/15/ireland-homeless-horses-cull
Israel:
IDF bulldozes animals alive in Gaza Zoo www.chai-online.org archives and killing of pets in bulldozing Palestinian orchards
Israeli chicken farm cruelty
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/09/israel-webcam-battery-hens
Israeli vivisection continues
bombing of ships in Beirut harbor.. ships containing people and livestock animals
bombing of people and animals in Syria, Lebanon, Palestine,
Jordan… routine killing of pets in IDF assassinations of humans
Italy:
cruel separation of calves from mothers in calf flesh trade
Ivory Coast
continues the elephant slaughter ivory trade which gave it its name
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/12-15-2003-48643.asp
Japan:
Whale murder: plutocrats slaughter whales for appetite labeled as research (animal research
is always a barbarism as well) http://www.greenpeace.orghttp://www.seashepherd.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP7PZMMpgcw
dolphin knifing
http://worst.animal-abuse.ever.com/ trailer on the documentary The Cove
baby octopi are eaten alive
Illegal ivory and turtle shell trade
Kazakhstan
extinction of species from pollution, high levels of radiation
Kenya
Elephant poaching
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2193-elephant-slaughter-rises-in-kenya.html
receiving life shipment terrorized animals
Korea:
dog eating… dogs often skinned alive in belief that adrenalin tenderizes dog flesh
S Korean govt. considers ending bear farming
http://www.wspa-international.org/latestnews/2010/korean-government-to-end-bear-farming.aspx
baby octopi are eaten alive
Kuwait
slaughterhouses in which animals choke on their own blood for a minute
… not waterboarding but bloodboarding
sometimes 80,000 sheep from Australia will be crammed into 1 boat
to be delivered to Kuwaiti slaughterhouses
illegal dogfighting
illegal hunting
http://desertcauses.blogspot.com
Kyrgyzstan
cruel games
http://www.care2.com…/detail/1478188
Laos:
receiving illegal ivory from Africa, selling Laotian elephants, allowing consumption of elephant penises
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37167109/ns/world_news-world_environment/
Liberia:
consumption of monkey meat.. besides its cruelty one cause of AIDS
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/11/liberia-monkeys-pets-or-meat
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Libya:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jun/18/anti-whaling-campaigners-bluefin
Sea Shepherd activists free hundreds of blue fin tuna caught by
Libyan and Italian fishermen
www.seashepherd.org
Macedonia
Illegal massacre of stray dogs
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-dog-massacre-in-skopje.html
Malaysia
mass animal slaughter in deforestation of millions of acres of
forest habitat for animals
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/1213-sarawak_oil_palm.html
Malta
The Maltese falcon is not the only bird being killed. Maltese govt. allows 15,000 local hunters
to endanger many species of birds.
http://www.hsus.org/about_us/humane_society_international_hsi/cruelty_issues_around_the_world/bird_hunting_malta_102607.html
Marshall Islands
vote suspended by Int’l Whaling Comm. because of Japanese whale killers’ bribes
Mexico:
bullfights
horse slaughter
donkeys abused
http://www.realdonkeys.com/2.html
pigs: concentration camps of Smithfield and others
factory farms http://www.hsus.org/about_us/humane_society_international_hsi/cruelty_issues_around_the_world/animal_factories_in_mexico.html
Micronesia
Overfishing
http://www.indexmund…ent_issues.html
Mongolia
Goats bred for cashmere are expendable and butchered when they
are old or economic conditions change
http://rt.com/news/slaughterhouse-for-cashmere-goats-as-crisis-hits-mongolia/
Mozambique
Habitat destruction endangers species
Namibia
encourages wealthy trophy seeking hunters to slaughter endangered species
Nepal
huge animal sacrifice festivalhttp://www.all-creatures.org/alert/alert-20101211.html
Breeding primates for lab torture
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2007/2007-06-25-03.html
New Zealand:
end live shipment of cows, sheep, pigs
www.savethesheep.org/f-wool_boycott_update.asp
brutal slicing of sheep still not gone in NZ
Seals clubbed to death in New Zealand
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/06/fur-seals-killed-breeding-colony
Nicaragua
http://matadornetwork.com/tv/intransit-ep-21-****-fight-in-nicaragua/
Cockfighting is banned in most of the world but not Nicaragua
Nigeria
Ramfighting in Lagos
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8640519.stm
Chicken transit
http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-497545.0.html
illegal ivory trade
Norway:
one of 5 natons killing whales
sealclubbers
Okinawa
Bullfighting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-2LWDGV8Lw
Oman
purchase of mammals for slaughter, animals shipped in heat without sufficient liquid
http://www.liveexport-indefensible.com/investigations/photos.php
Pakistan
mistreatment of cows
http://pakistaniat.com/2008/12/07/kick-cow-amazing/
Palau
vote suspended by Int’l Whaling Comm. because of Japanese whale killers’ bribes
Panama
bullfights
http://www.thepanama…9/Travel_01.htm
Paraguay
factory farms http://www.feedingfa…index.php?id=29
feedlots and a cattle slaughter culture which harms animals people and the rainforest
Peru
Dogs die to teach soldiers how to kill
http://www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/index.en.php?id=322
Philippines
horrible video of pig murder in Philippines
… no animal objects more to slaughter than a pig
http://en.kendincos.net/video-hdjptnhf-filipino-pig-slaughter-m4v.html
Another pig slaughter video is on Youtube
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dog meat trade
Poland
One of Europe’s biggest pig killers allowing Smithfield to
invade with factory farm connected slaughterhouses
http://labanimals.awionline.org/farm/news/rfkpoland.htm
Qatar
cattle importers and live shipment vs animal rights
http://www.tbc-world.com/news/Qatari_Officials_Mum_About_Dispute.asp
Romania:
http://www.truth-out.org/article/swine-plague-romania-criticizes-smithfields-attitude
Smithfield pig factory farms
Russia:
fur trade in sable and other animals
habitat destruction
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Saudi Arabia:
Millions of animals sacrificed in the Haj in Mecca annually
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Scotland
thousands of baby bird gannets killed each August on island off Scottish coast
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/25/scotland-hebrides-gannet-hunt
Lacerated seals wash up on the coasts of Scotland
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/18/seals-dead-scotland
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Senegal
complicit in elephant slaughter and illegal ivory trade
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/12-15-2003-48643.asp
Serbia: using testicle-cooking competition to attract tourists
www.newstrackindia.com
animal cruelty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y-OdNrfd8s&feature=share
Solomon Islands
failed to show up at IWC meeting to vote against Japanese whale killers
South Africa:
. Encouraging trophy seeking wealthy hunters to shoot endangered
species
http://www.animalrightsafrica.org/Archive/Hunting/hunting.pdf
. seal clubbing
. doing little to stop aerial hunting of elephants such as in the following website
http://www.africanskyhunting.co.za/trophies/elephant-hunting.html
Spain:
world wants a ban on bullfighting
6th in murdered pigs
crucified bull runs into crowd
http://sportsbybrooks.com/video-bull-jumps-into-stands-at-bullfight-in-spain-28862
abandonment of dogs by hunters
http://www.hsus.org/hsi/confronting_cruelty/animal_cruelty_around_the_world/abuse_of_spanish_galgos.html
Sudan
The war in the Sudan is killing many animals as well as people.
Suriname
exporting primates to US and elsewhere for lab torture
http://www.gatewayto…ch/02_03_SR.htm
Sweden
fur farms
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Practical/Shop–ToDo/Activism/ActionVsSwedishFur.htm
reindeer slaughter
Switzerland:
Hans Ruesch wrote Slaughter of the Innocent about Roche and other pharmaceutical company
animal torture.
Nestle’s especially since it bought Purina has aggressively marketed toxic animal flesh foods
as pet foods, while HSUS has gone the opposite direction, marketing Humane Choice, an
organic vegan dog food. www.hsus.org
Banks which continue to receive the blood money of
animal abusers
Taiwan:
pig forcefed sand and metal.. then murdered
http://news.bbc.co.u…fic/6976183.stm
drowning tanks for dogs
http://ondeadlyground.tripod.com/id8.html
Tajikistan:
dead sheep used as ball in game
http://www.travelblo…log-385721.html
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Tanzania
receiving liveshipment baby animals terrorized… sent by
Heifer Int’l
Thailand
Activists work to end primate boxing
http://www.wfmz.com/news/23135338/detail.html
Tibet
Yak slaughter
Turkey
mistreatment of dogs
Turkmenistan
human arranged dogfights… no animal cruelty laws
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/THE+DOGS+OF+WAR%3B+ON+HOW+dogfights in TurkmenistanBARBARIC+ANIMAL+CRUELTY+IS+SWEEPING+THE…-a0110872385
Uganda
Nearly 90 hippos dead of anthrax…
UAE:
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/heritage-culture/camel-auction-raises-funds-for-research-1.687361
UAE sells camels for slaughter…. to fund research on captive animals
and had Tewari, a Texas group, build a camel slaughterhouse. Pregnant camels also are killed.
UAE bans demonstraters at Dubai zoo
http://www.france24.com/en/20100715-animal-rights-activists-banned-protest-dubai-zoo
Ukraine
Animals at Kiev Zoo being poisoned?
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/ukraine/100609/kiev-zoo-animal-welfare
UK:
Fox rights
David Cameron wants to bring back barbaric fox hunting after Parliament banned hunting
with more than 2 dogs
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1487054/fox_hunting/
Vivisection at Oxford, Cambridge, Liverpool etc.
http://indymedia.org.uk
US:
2nd in murdered pigs
USDA poisoning millions of starlings
http://www.naturalne…ird_deaths.html
too numerous to list .. require a separate thread
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?244240-US-Government-War-On-Animals-And-Their-Protectors*
Inuit try to derail seal rights campaign
http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/seal_hunt/*
Military testing on lab animals
http://www.all-creatures.org/saen
http://www.stopanimaltests.com
http://www.pcrm.org
*Bombing of animals in at least 6 illegal war zones
www.mccruelty.com
www.kfccruelty.com
Uruguay
bullfighting
cattle ranches
Vatican
Catechism defense of animal research, silence about Jesus’
vegetarianism, silence about wars, Pope’s ermine
http://catholicveg.blogspot.com/
www.christianveg.com
www.all-creatures.org
www.compassionatespirit.com
www.hacres.org
Venezuela
animal habitat destruction through deforestation
Vietnam
Cateating
4th in murdered pigs
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Zaire:
consumption of monkey flesh
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Zambia
consumption of monkey flesh
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Zimbabwe
cooperates in the live shipment terror of frightened animals
by Heifer Int’l .. animals sent to lives of slavery and slaughter
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Many more are at the following link:
http://engforum.pravda.ru/index.php?/topic/221480-117-countries-brutality-toward-animals/
Some of the millions of groups working to prevent animal suffering
http://www.worldanimal.net/directory/search-wan-directory
http://wrecks.justsickshit.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/truck-spill-chickens.jpg
Black woman ope'd the back door
and found that she was done,
last night's fire had come to embers
but the blaze had just begun,
On the verandah, all around 'er
bottles, bongs and butts,
calm and still her outside,
but chaos in her guts,
Resolve was mounting in her bones
and soon it'd take her heart,
so on purpose for the last time
she let it break apart,
Then as the morning sun rose
and her tears evaporated,
her soul had closed, her heart had froze,
her love annihilated.
They once were little tears,
but now their minds are ticking,
behind those angry eyes,
the serpent's tongue is flicking,
tasting if the time is ripe;
hints of hurt an' hate,
a body of fraternity,
resolve in after taste,
the streets are streams that team with schools of innovative brains,
parents, crims, professionals, all head towards the same,
Each day they form a tributary,
Each day another sliver
joins the song of; victory!,
that flows toward the river,
Rushing down the streets,
gushing through the bush,
despite their small defeats,
still they come to push,
Collecting all the drops and puddles,
swamps, ponds, dams and lakes,
singing river songs,
so as to wake the snake,
At the river they arrived,
coiled in each and other,
a stranger now a friend,
a friend is now a brother,
And when the celebration ceased,
they came to call the serpent,
in such a chorus that it shook
all the earth and firmament,
but his answer never came,
so an elder at the head had said,
"he died his people's pain,
the Wogel now is dead",
it parched the people's love and hope,
'til song succumbed to silent doubt,
the armour's scales on those who pushed,
the people came to flout,
And then they bent in misery,
'cause for all that they had fought,
through such a trying history
had finally come to nought,
but then it came, so far away,
a voice still high and soft with joy,
and one by one the multitude,
had turned about to face the boy,
"I can see the serpent!",
said a boy in such a voice,
that all the people turned around
to praise, hail, and rejoice,
But there only stood an elder
not knowing what to say,
so again he said "the Wogel's dead,
he died the people's pain",
And in soul ache hate, they turned again,
faces stern, to go,
but the boy was hard, resilient,
and so he told them "No",
"I can see the serpent,
rising for the sun,
and I'm prepared to strike with him,
with all of us or none,
we live today and so he does,
the Wogel's us together,
with certain sight and will to fight,
the Wogel lives forever",
So what's to come?
We're here together.
Will this meet an end?
Will the Wogel live forever?
That's up to us my friend.
(The Wogel is a name for the Rainbow Serpent. The most significant creator being in Aboriginal Australian beliefs)
Damn the Black Cunt nation and all it's souls.
Why do we wither in the wake of war?
Why feel pride for a life so base?
Why to fold so lowly on the earth,
To wind in weakness like a serpent in the winter,
lamenting a yesterday this earth has never known.
We dream so high, yet live so low,
we cannot walk with the burden of yesterday in our heart,
bound down in chains of complacency.
It is too heavy a load. There is no rising with it.
We are a slave to it. Imprisoned by it, and impoverished of all else.
In time gone by blue skies rained riches,
but today dark clouds rain black for blacks.
The black story holds facts and those are these,
once free, then chained, now free again.
Nothing more or less.
Yet we remain disenfranchised by volition.
Who done what, for why and when is of no consequence.
We are the same.
The world over forever, as we did before, as it did to us,
and as we will again, has conquered it's self time and again,
to make victors victims, and victims destitute,
Violence, clash of cultures, ideals, the very fabrics of a society's morals,
smashed to oblivion, then some how pieced together, changed and
yet the same.
So if we must remember yesterdays, then these are the ones to remember,
these histories, they tell us that it all culminates at one moment,
this moment.
And this moment holds our one and only right,
the one we've exercised since Adam. Choice.
Our choice. To do or to die.
Insanities seed settled when we did,
and has bloomed to fruit in the minds of our children.
I will not choose to let it bloom again.
I am as we are, fermented and bent with it,
catatonic in my hate and loss,
but I will not remain,
I'm not a man to lead with love,
but I'll clear the way for the one who does.
Brothers killing Brothers,
Mothers stabbing sons,
Babies die from withdrawrals,
Fathers on the run,
Sister girl died from AIDS,
Little cuz sells dope for fun,
His mother would o' gave a shit,
But she died from his daddies gun,
Drugs have killed my people
as fast as petrol burns,
As I sit with my drink
I'm waiting for my turn,
I hope that we all don't
die in this invasion,
The only way to win the war
is with an eduacation,
Love and respect for the bended black backs,
who boiled in the heat and took the attack,
who quietly tended their scabs and their wounds,
while their children were dreaming sound safe in their rooms,
who cried in their passion and toiled in their pain,
who managed to laugh though all that remained
was the fear of tomorrow, and the fate that awaits
when their kids would be chained and then taken away,
who conspired a plan by the light of a wick,
in the dead of the night while beaten and sick,
with a clarity only despair can afford,
to rescue their children, where children were hoard,
Who died in the dirt while making the trip,
who died in the dirt by the gun and the whip,
who died in the dirt while kids watched and they cried,
though were happy to die because they had tried,
Love and respect for the tall and straight backs,
who remember the fight and what it is to be black.
The mast wore yellow in the sun an' rain,
the flag wore thin to see straight through,
the reason that it rose is long forgot,
the reason why stays stays true,
with only the earth to keep our truth,
and only the heavens to store our hope,
somewhere in between, on a rusted mast,
on a taught and fraying rope,
flies the thin blue flag against the sky,
with love and pride and sorrow,
to shoulder all our pain of past,
and hopes of our tomorrow,
so whether feeling love or loss,
or whether good or bad,
above you flies the southern cross
upon our thin blue flag.
Work's a cunt, we know it,
it's something to detest,
despite our souls objections,
we get up and get dressed,
it pays the rent, (or mortgage,
in half happy peoples case),
so with vegimite an' toast,
it's something that we face,
It aint that bad,
the dumb bitch on the till is still half drunk,
walkin' like a new calf,
and smellin' like a skunk,
the kitchen cunt, an arab bloke,
out rolls his muslim mat,
prayin for forgiveness,
(and not to burn the fat),
all is cool and quiet,
everyone's a task,
the idiots from last shift ,
left more than we could ask,
'cause even though we bitch an' moan,
even though we're slack,
we'd rather fix a fuck up,
than fuck up and give back,
so now the day is done,
the shift we can adjourn,
we count the day as won,
and tomorrow we return.
Brothers and cousin brothers,
cousin cousins and cousin friends
found boredoms cure in bottle's bottom,
whole families downing medicine,
and then we sought another cure,
and found it in the hydro trees,
or going into town
and stealing cars to tease police,
or, torment a passer by,
they ran, or cried, some flexed,
felt like a teranisaurus rex
in a cage of kids and lambs,
eat them until we're full,
then beat them because we could,
that cure was just as good
as the other medicines,
on sunday noon I woke,
heard a screaming out the window,
saw my brother was the cure
for my other brother's ills,
then my sight cast down the road,
the street was blood and spirits torn,
the cure had made us crazy,
into fucken cannibals.