tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33029962.post5659031954611288039..comments2023-10-28T08:04:25.241-05:00Comments on Long Live the Public Schools!: No Iraq WarVillage Greenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10299021164466991478noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33029962.post-92042228833664388472007-12-06T11:51:00.000-05:002007-12-06T11:51:00.000-05:00THE WORST OF WORST (PER RUMSFELD)Upon invasion or ...THE WORST OF WORST (PER RUMSFELD)<BR/><BR/>Upon invasion or rebellion<BR/>So Congress may suspend<BR/>Habeas corpus--no medallion<BR/>Of freedom, I contend:<BR/><BR/>It is the utter substance of<BR/>Our free society<BR/>To have such law--but people love<BR/>Not so much being free.<BR/><BR/>Rather so many as adhere<BR/>Unto a kind of cult<BR/>Of personality, appear<BR/>To find law worth assault:<BR/><BR/>"Whom we declare ´the worst of worst,´ "<BR/>These are the words they say,<BR/>"We may deal with them as we durst<BR/>Or spirit them away."<BR/><BR/>These are the satisfied cabal<BR/>If not "above the law"<BR/>Outside the law are in--appall<BR/>My heart that final straw.<BR/><BR/>"Outside so we are in" declares<BR/>That crew: "Whom we proclaim<BR/>´Worst of the worst,´ without shed tears<BR/>We may treat as ´fair game.´<BR/><BR/>(Believing ourselves righteous far<BR/>Above the common run,<BR/>We are the law, and set the par<BR/>According to what´s done.)"<BR/><BR/>Thus slips into the lexicon<BR/>A new phrase, "disappear one."<BR/>The law as it is newly spun<BR/>Provides no means to clear one<BR/><BR/>When on him is suspicion set:<BR/>"We take the key and lose it,<BR/>Nor relatives, or since or yet<BR/>Hear peeps from that locked closet.<BR/><BR/>At first it was just foreigners<BR/>We claimed ´the worst of worst´ is,<BR/>Yet now to citizens adheres<BR/>This habeas interstice."<BR/><BR/>Thus is the case presented while<BR/>The masses ignorantly smile--<BR/>Cult membership so pleases them<BR/>As habeas slips they haw and hem<BR/>Absurdly glad, or in denial--<BR/>It´s so much easier to condemn<BR/>The "worst of worst" when there´s no trial!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33029962.post-72621123565421506582006-11-11T17:21:00.000-05:002006-11-11T17:21:00.000-05:00I noticed your blog at Washingtonpost.com today. I...I noticed your blog at Washingtonpost.com today. It seems we both blogged on and linked to the same article. In our own ways, we both approach this mess in a similar, though not identical take. It's high time we get out. And many of the options remaining open to the US are not the most desirable to reach a satisfactory conclusion -- if there ever can be one -- to Bush's folly. Thanks for the interesting read. I'll be loking for more of your posts. <br /><br />Jade at The Rational Inquirer<br />(http://the-rational-inquirer.blogspot.com)The Rational Inquirerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10085860238827998133noreply@blogger.com