Land of the Free

In the land where nice guys finish last,

Soft feelings are not quite allowed;

It puzzles me upon what base

They stand so arrogant and proud,

Wrapped in a flag so new.

They come from all across the earth,

And swear allegiance to a place

Which treats all foreign folk as trash,

And themselves as a master race

Whose blood does not run true.

Never let a sucker have a break,

And there's one born every minute;

But who in their land of addled pate

Of TV dinner and heartache

Can think a thought that's straight.

Cant is the wellspring of their dreams,

Deceit and greed are what they know.

All men are created equal,

Except for slave and redskin,

Poor greaser or quiet gook.


This might have been called 'Pale-face speak with forked tongue'.

The USA has never been a place of freedom, it was always a land of banditry, tax-evasion and slavery. And above all else, hypocrisy. The people who wrote the US Constitution were slave owners who went on to deport the redskins West of the Missouri, even though the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. The US ruling class has done many unspeakable things since then, in a similar vein. The US working class has never even had the right to live, never mind been granted freedom. They first responders to 9/11 have been treated as totally expendable, and so have the other clear-up workers who followed them, with enormous casualties from lung disease.
Why do people give it credence when they bang on about their silly Constitution and all the tosh that goes along with it? 'By their fruits ye shall know them'.