If I was David Hicks..

[echo off]

I almost put this in the P&S forum as I wrote it hoping to evoke discussion, at least within myself. But I fear it doesn't belong there. It is complete, as least as of today.

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If I was David Hicks...
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I had heard the stories of the children crying, while watching their parents dying, and their tears were drying.
and I decided to act, while the world was devided, failing those children, while their fates were decided.
so i took up my life, and passed it into the hands and the men who offered hope, and didn't go asking for lands.
but when cornered and forfeit i became their prize, sold for a price that makes mens heart rate rise.

i was sent to a darkness, with flashing bright lights, chained to the floor in to my tormentors delight.
deprived of all reason to hope to try and survive, told i was fighting with the enemy, that's the only reason i'm alive.
beaten without reason, punished without thought, i began to believe this was the hell my choices had brought
i'd got the wrong picture, and hoped for the wrong good. i was wrong in what i believed, but they understood.

wait no, wait yes, no... wait what's going on. i was drowning just then, and now i feel gone.
am i spent, no i'm erect, wait no i'm AAARRGGGHHHHHHH!!!! what the fuck was that
i'm lost, whats that darkness, it feels so peaceful, so moist... like it's
AAAAARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!! AAAAGHHHH! AH ha ha ha... my this feeling
i've lost all my hope, but for my life I'm still dealing.
Sorry what? You will free me? what do you need me to say?
Yeh fuck my good friend, hit record, lets get this shit underway!

I'm a terrorist. I'm a fiend. I'm your worst kind of dream.
I'll butt fuck a monkey and then give aids to a teen.
I'll sell crack, coke, H, hemp and pretend that it's dope.
Take all of your money and send it up into smoke.
I'll kill babies with anthrax, I'll fuck a giraffe in it's face.
You can put it on YouTube and make me a discrace.
You can send me to Jersey with a dak-dak
I'll kill all on the shore.
Just promise you won't use those 'techniques' no more?

Wait you promised, I did what you asked... what the hell, what are you going to do to me?
AAAAARRRGHHHH!! I PROMISED!! ARRRRGHHH!!! The pain! AAARRRGH!! Please let me beee...
AARRGHHH! Help! HELP! PLEASE SOMEONE! PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!!
Arrghhh... ah, er.. huh? I'm back home? Huh? What, help... err... I'm free?

I did what? Ok cool, I can dig it... whatever.
Just leave me alone, let me get it together.
Shhh... say whatever, I'm just trying to figure this all out.
I'm not sure what happened, sorry, what was it all about?

Well... shit... don't ask me. I didn't do anything.
I a good honest bloke, I mean but if you ask me to sing...
It'll cost you... oh that's not fair? Well wait, sorry, you want justice?
LOL your asking the wrong guy, I was stripped of that substance.

But now fuck you... my words are worth something you cunts!
you wanna steal half my life and then play the dunce?
well i'm not playing those games with my soul anymore...
I lived for honor and justice, and you made me your whore.

So you'll pay for my book and when you read it you'll realise
you failed to uphold not only mine but others basic rights
and I'm hoping from their you can find the humility to agree
your fucking the world, not just fucking me.

 

[echo off]

in a very similar vein, half just for the fun of it... I also wrote:

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If I was Bradley Manning...
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I was sitting in the barracks, just minding my place
when on my screens I saw an abhorent complete and utter disgrace
and i looked to my seniors and saw the bullshit they would pull
claiming the need to follow that one and only "chain of command" rule.

So I went outside and looked for help but no one agreed...
despite the truth I had to show they didn't see the need...
It's not their fault they could hope to begin to understand
even an evil chain of authority is a ruler of the land.

i saw injustice, saw cover ups, i saw unholy things denied,
but in my heart i knew with these things I couldn't be allied
so i gathered truth and hoped for justice deep inside my heart
released the papers hoping that we wouldn't fall apart.

as it stands I'm not quite sure
been locked up for a while
they say that wikileaks does good
but the USA is still in denial
that makes me chuckle, for why am i locked uP
if i didn't leak the truth?
one of the guards suggested to me
"maybe you'll end up just a spoof"

that brings to me the most darkest fears
that my sacrifice will come to nothing
i didn't do this to hurt my friends
i did it to bring peace and loving.