The Beast of America - Original

Sit down in front of the monitor,
that portal into the world
that they don’t want you to see.
They mask freedom of information
with a flag waving in your face,
which tinges the truth
with red white and blue.
Our military is bringing peace
at the end of a rifle barrel
and pressed into the landscape
underneath the treads of tanks.
We kindle the fires of freedom with napalm
and set up leaders covered with the blood of their people.
We see all this,
but the white masks the blood on our uniforms
and dresses us in regal robes,
transforming our soldiers into paladins
who do no evil and resist hate,
even though their sole occupation is death.
The red tinges far away conflicts,
and makes us believe that
the blood being spilled is ours,
convincing us that we should intervene
and topple the biggest threat before they take us out,
all the while proclaiming to the world
that we are the pinnacle nation
who holds all the power.
The blue shades the facts,
and makes us believe that the world is ours,
that we owe it to the other nations
to spread our democracy and freedom.
This flag of red white and blue,
a powerful tool
because it used to mean something important.
But now no one can see past the filters
To what is really going on.
So we join the masses;
We believe the tints of red white and blue
and praise the beast of America.
We lay down our bodies at the feet of corruption,
and join the assembly line of hypocrisy.
We pledge allegiance to the beast within the flag.

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Pic Source: https://www.dennisricci.com/2016/11/justice/preparing-november-9/