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Questions
If someone dies from an ILLEGAL chokehold
At the hands of the police,
Shouldn't the policeman responsible stand
Before a justice of the peace?
If a man is brought down by an illegal chokehold--
The use of excessive force--
Is that an act that we as Americans
Can rightfully endorse?
If the police suspected that you were selling
Untaxed cigarettes, too,
Do you think they'd also rough you up
And apply a chokehold on you?
Regarding the death of Eric Garner,
Was brutal force the cause,
Or was his death, as Rand Paul suggests,
Due to taxation laws?
If someone causes another's death
Does he deserve immunity?
Or better yet should he have
A license to kill with impunity?
Isn't it ironic that a man is killed
When stopped by the police for selling
Untaxed or unlicensed cigarettes--
Hardly that compelling!--
And yet there are hundreds of thousands of people
Who every year resist
Paying the appropriate taxes they owe,
And they get a slap on the wrist?
No country's perfect, but shouldn't we still
Seek a means whereby
We can perfect our current system?
Shouldn't we even try?
(12-4-14)
At the hands of the police,
Shouldn't the policeman responsible stand
Before a justice of the peace?
If a man is brought down by an illegal chokehold--
The use of excessive force--
Is that an act that we as Americans
Can rightfully endorse?
If the police suspected that you were selling
Untaxed cigarettes, too,
Do you think they'd also rough you up
And apply a chokehold on you?
Regarding the death of Eric Garner,
Was brutal force the cause,
Or was his death, as Rand Paul suggests,
Due to taxation laws?
If someone causes another's death
Does he deserve immunity?
Or better yet should he have
A license to kill with impunity?
Isn't it ironic that a man is killed
When stopped by the police for selling
Untaxed or unlicensed cigarettes--
Hardly that compelling!--
And yet there are hundreds of thousands of people
Who every year resist
Paying the appropriate taxes they owe,
And they get a slap on the wrist?
No country's perfect, but shouldn't we still
Seek a means whereby
We can perfect our current system?
Shouldn't we even try?
(12-4-14)
