06-15-2015, 02:44 AM
This might be required reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition
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I’ve heard from a shadow, behind the man’s back:
we’ve side-stepped conventions, and covered our tracks.
Of course there are places, to put on a show:
where nobody’s watching, and no one will know.
In cellars of countries coerced and then gagged,
lie kidnapped “combatants”, not charged, but harangued:
accused of abetting vile terrorist scum,
their rights are worth nothing, defending freedom.
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I’ve heard from a shadow, behind the man’s back:
we’ve side-stepped conventions, and covered our tracks.
Of course there are places, to put on a show:
where nobody’s watching, and no one will know.
In cellars of countries coerced and then gagged,
lie kidnapped “combatants”, not charged, but harangued:
accused of abetting vile terrorist scum,
their rights are worth nothing, defending freedom.