#Freespeech, but We Won’t Cover Your Skin or Honor Your God
POETRY FORMAT, 19 Jan 2015
Maung Zarni, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service
A poem in solidarity and honor of persecuted and targeted Muslims, the latest victims of the “Civilization.”
Yo the victims of American drone strikes,
You and your lot ain’t White.
So, we won’t fight
Fight for your right to life
You lives ain’t newsworthy.
Don’t you dare be testy!
Our man Murdoch said, “all yo Muslims, A-P-O-L-O-G-I-Z-E” for your share!
How dare you demand our coverage to be fair?!!
We ain’t F-A-I-R. Never.
Not in the past, Not now. Not in the foreseeable future.
That’s right. We are the Whites!
We rule the waves – air or ocean.
We give you lot the Net.
We decide what IS right.
What is news.
What is true.
We only fight for our (White) fellas’ Right
To take the piss at your Brown Prophet the Bearded Mohamed.
To caricature and satirize any subject we like
It is our Inalienable Right.
Inviolable is Our Freedom to insult
To offend is Divine.
God created us all Equal.
Ah, we Whites are more equal!
But, don’t you dare being anti-Semite
Bibi (Netanyaho) wouldn’t like!
We’ll feed Muslim pests to Mossad, CIA, MI6 and other termites.
Torture you they might.
“The Rights of Man” is only for the Whites
You ain’t like one of us.
You ain’t White!
How many of you dead, Syrian, Iraqi, Afghani, Yemeni?
100,000? 600,000?
No, not yet Genocides.
Genocides is what we specialize!
We lost count of “Pakis” whom our Brothers in Pentagon gleefully strike?
Weddings? Children? Infants? Pregnant women?
Who gives a fuck! Your lives are “collateral damage”-able.
That’s right!
You ain’t Men, boys (and girls)!
Your lives ain’t worth Parisian protests on Champs-Élysées.
How dare you expect Louis Vuitton to shut for your rights.
You have no Rights!
Your non-White plight deserves no S-O-L-I-D-A-R-I-T-Y
S-O-L-I-T-A-R-Y at Gitmo is what you will get.
That’s right.
What? No trial?
Stop crying Innocence!
You tell that to the Americans.
They would laugh out loud at your ass.
Yo Muslims are presumed guilty.
That’s our White justice!
Take it or leave it.
Alright! Alright!
We are journos’.
And we ain’t governments! We ain’t judges!
That’s right.
We are The M-E-DI-A
We decide your R-E-A-L-I-T-I-E-S.
We decide who you are.
We define what is D-I-V-I-N-E.
We have the Power to describe – but no brains to analyze.
Responsibility? What responsibility?!!!
Responsibility for a bunch of us Orientalist hired mouths?
You must be kidding!!!
We are indeed in the employ of “Western Civilization”
Which gives us templates to write on.
Heard of T-E-R-R-O-R-I-S-M? National Security?
Orange Alerts? Embedded Media?
We beat our Civilization’s war drums – from Times of London to Times in New York.
whenever, where-ever , however Freedom wants to march
“Freedom will beat terror”
10 Downing-Man thundered.
Dave, tell that to Robespierre!
It is our Value – not just our Right to trash whatever we think is right.
Whatever is Holy is your Holy, not Our Holy.
We are Voltaire’s bastards.
Fanatical Rationalists!
We are a band of brothers – British, American, Australian, German, French, Spanish, Danish –
We are all con·quis·ta·dors.
For 500 years, we’ve been singing the same hymns
We ain’t scared of your AK-47s.
We have the Pen.
The Drones,
The Nukes.
The Bases.
We have the CIA and EIT (Enhanced Interrogation Techniques).
Our Pen is mightier than AK-47s and your suicide belts
Backed by other White Boys’ toys.
Our mighty Pen knows no responsibility.
As journos, we show no conscience.
Compassion is for the Dalai Lama and his Buddhist groupies.
F-R-A-T-E-N-I-T-Y is White Only.
How dare you “Mus(ilms)” demand L-I-B-E-R-T-Y!!??
Boys, it ain’t a property.
It cannot be sold or bought – like Saudi’s oil.
“Foul!”, don’t you dare cry!
You don’t have the right skin for Liberté, égalité, fraternité
You ain’t MEN.
who can spell E-Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y.
How dare you dream of fair coverage?!!
Our tolerance isn’t colour-blind.
Europe ain’t for you, Boys.
Certainly not for the Mus!
Martin dude is dead in his Dream of a Color-Blind World.
Ferguson is the name of the game.
Only White lives matter.
“Boko Haram’s ‘deadliest massacre’:
2000 feared dead in Nigeria”
But, who in London or Paris or Sydney gives a fuck?
Go back where you came from, Boys!
Europe ain’t your home.
Detention, oppression, subjugation, torture, droning – all part of our Right.
“The Rights of Man”
That’s right.
Our Rights are backed up by our Might.
Pen is mightier when it is backed by anti-Terror fight.
Compliance, Compliance. Compliance.
Submission, Submission. Submission.
Again remember resistance is futile.
As always.
So lie down, shut up and take it!
Our man Murdoch controls the media.
He guides us White journos to define your R-E-A-L-I-T-Y.
Rupert wants you to say “S-O-R-R-Y”.
For standing up to the Man, the White Man.
You worship the God of Terror,
Don’t you, Don’t you!
Motherfuckers, remember!
Our Goddess is named LIBERTY.
So, shut up, lie down and let the water-boarding begin!
Lest you boys prefer sodomy!
That’s right.
Geneva Conventions are alight.
Duck Cheney says Torture is our Right!
That’s a sign of Progress.
That’s our American values.
Our French Mission Civilita!
Freedom is on the march.
Our Global Terror will defeat your local terror, Boys!
Taste the flavor of our White Racist Fanaticism!
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Dr. Maung Zarni, Associate Fellow, the University of Malaya, is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment, founder and director of the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004), and a visiting fellow (2011-13) at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, Department of International Development, London School of Economics. His forthcoming book on Burma will be published by Yale University Press. He was educated in the US where he lived and worked for 17 years. Visit his website http://www.maungzarni.net.
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