Doublespeak: Four By Six

DOUBLESPEAK

It’s a dangerous world
Or so the News tells us
Looking for terrorists?
Check out the Pentagon

Shrinking Violet: Shadorma

SHRINKING VIOLET

He sees her
Dance … delightfully
He thinks of
Asking her …
A disorienting thought …
Fills him with terror!

Tentacle: Cinqku

TENTACLE

Doorbell
Standing here
Scared stiff for sure
Yet you plucked up courage
Hopeful

Offworlders Appalled

OFFWORLDERS APPALLED

They called it Terra
We found out when we arrived
These “human” beings

Mute we watched them create it
Though they mangled the spelling

Unforgotten

UNFORGOTTEN

I live in terror
Waiting for our next mistake
You are my mother
But then I am your father
Long dead they live on in us

Begone Enchanting Hatred

BEGONE ENCHANTING HATRED

Inner exploration
Of whatever hatred
Arises within us
Is the only way out

With terror confronted
(Oz’s humbug wizard)
False images dissolve
Love is reunited

Five Days, Five Quotes: Day Five

“If we use the term in accord with its official definitions, then, uncontroversially, Israel (like the US, Britain, Turkey and others) is a terrorist state by the standards we apply to official enemies.” – Noam Chomsky.

Painful Truths And Lies

Given recent events, previous ones and, I am afraid, those to come in the future, here is an article you may find worth reflecting upon. I had already worked out just about all of this for myself, but he puts it together in a very cogent form.

The “War on Terrorism”

There is also this.

How to not remain a victim of terrorism

War Is Peace

WAR IS PEACE

“The War on Terror …”
Dressed in tricksy rhetoric
Obomber drones on
While collateral damage
No longer has flesh or bones

The Misuse Of Language

THE MISUSE OF LANGUAGE

Hunting terrorists?
Have you checked the CIA
And The Pentagon?

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http://www.alternet.org/world/chomsky-americas-imperial-power-showing-real-signs-decline

Terrorism

1. The use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, especially for political purposes.

2. The state of fear and submission produced by terrorism or terrorization.

3. A terroristic method of governing or of resisting a government.

(Dictionary.com)