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Call It What It Is
Step right up, folks!
Take a look around.
See all the strategies
Your CIA has found
To help "protect" you;
To make you feel safe.
They don't worry
If their tactics make you chafe.
The Senate Intelligence
Committee Report
Mentions waterboarding,
And, NO, it's not a sport.
Sleep deprivation--
Does that really work?
It wouldn't take long
Before you went berserk.
Rectal re-hydration
Doesn't sound like fun.
It sounds like an enema
With a water gun.
Ice baths--brrr!--
In zero degrees.
Try to imagine
That brain freeze!
Isolation rooms!
Trouble would impend
After being locked there
For days on end.
Small box confinement--
That would cause some grief.
You couldn't even stretch out
To get some relief.
How about being
Slammed against the wall
Or threatened with death
Until you start to bawl?
Each "enhanced
Interrogation technique"
Causes pain and suffering
And sounds pretty bleak.
Let's just call them
What they really are:
They're all forms of torture
And they go too far.
There appears to be no evidence
From connecting all the dots
That the tactics stopped
Imminent plots.
I thought that we
Were better than that.
All attempts to justify
Such tactics fall flat.
We have the right to protest--
The right to make a fuss.
I guess more laws are needed
To protect us from us.
(12-9-14)
Take a look around.
See all the strategies
Your CIA has found
To help "protect" you;
To make you feel safe.
They don't worry
If their tactics make you chafe.
The Senate Intelligence
Committee Report
Mentions waterboarding,
And, NO, it's not a sport.
Sleep deprivation--
Does that really work?
It wouldn't take long
Before you went berserk.
Rectal re-hydration
Doesn't sound like fun.
It sounds like an enema
With a water gun.
Ice baths--brrr!--
In zero degrees.
Try to imagine
That brain freeze!
Isolation rooms!
Trouble would impend
After being locked there
For days on end.
Small box confinement--
That would cause some grief.
You couldn't even stretch out
To get some relief.
How about being
Slammed against the wall
Or threatened with death
Until you start to bawl?
Each "enhanced
Interrogation technique"
Causes pain and suffering
And sounds pretty bleak.
Let's just call them
What they really are:
They're all forms of torture
And they go too far.
There appears to be no evidence
From connecting all the dots
That the tactics stopped
Imminent plots.
I thought that we
Were better than that.
All attempts to justify
Such tactics fall flat.
We have the right to protest--
The right to make a fuss.
I guess more laws are needed
To protect us from us.
(12-9-14)
