{"id":1635,"date":"2014-09-11T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T14:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=1635"},"modified":"2014-09-11T09:28:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T14:28:48","slug":"poem-a-weigh-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/11\/poem-a-weigh-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: A Weigh of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If you must kill<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>For your way of life<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>It is a weigh of death<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Knot a way of life<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This short poem cuts to the chaste on this anniversary of 9\/11, formerly unknown as the anniversary of the U.S.-backed, CIA-directed military coup in 1973 of the democratically elected Chilean government of Salvador Allende.\u00a0 Now, back in the good ole USA, the only military coo you will hear is accompanied by the drums of war, playing up the only apparent choices as killing or doing nothing, in order to preserve our so-called &#8220;way of life.&#8221;\u00a0 The foundation of this band of brothers (and occasional sisters) is built upon well-remembered dead Americans and easily forgotten non-Americans, the vast majority of whom are civilian noncombatants, possessing no name except collateral damage.\u00a0 Shame on US for being so blinded in this mirror war and a callous just US.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. 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