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THE NUREMBERG DEFENCE
Though not Jewish, Irish or Black
I would nonetheless refuse
To drink in a pub that proclaimed:
‘No Irish, no Blacks and no Jews.’
Everyone has the choice to make
Principled or expedient:
To comply with discrimination
Or civil disobedience.
Though not Jewish, Irish or Black
I would nonetheless refuse
To drink in a pub that proclaimed:
‘No Irish, no Blacks and no Jews.’
Everyone has the choice to make
Principled or expedient:
To comply with discrimination
Or civil disobedience.
The yellow star, ‘whites-only’ bar,
Countries where women are veiled
Detained ‘illegal aliens’
Julian Assange in jail
Existed and exist because
(And with their passive assistance)
Those to whom they did not apply
Tolerated their existence.
Countries where women are veiled
Detained ‘illegal aliens’
Julian Assange in jail
Existed and exist because
(And with their passive assistance)
Those to whom they did not apply
Tolerated their existence.
At Nuremberg the judges declared
A principle of jurisprudence:
When enacting illegal laws
‘Obeying orders’ is no defence.
The deferral of our freedom
To a higher authority
Does not relieve us of our own
Moral responsibility.
A principle of jurisprudence:
When enacting illegal laws
‘Obeying orders’ is no defence.
The deferral of our freedom
To a higher authority
Does not relieve us of our own
Moral responsibility.
Three-quarters of a century on
We face the same situation
From three-hundred and twenty-five
Coronavirus Regulations:
The restaurant, pub or shop that’s shut
To those proscribed by ‘health restrictions’
Not for colour, nation or creed,
But political conviction;
We face the same situation
From three-hundred and twenty-five
Coronavirus Regulations:
The restaurant, pub or shop that’s shut
To those proscribed by ‘health restrictions’
Not for colour, nation or creed,
But political conviction;
The church that tells parishioners
‘Carols may be hummed but not sung’;
The college that volunteers students
For mass-screening of the young;
The school that tells parents to keep
Healthy children quarantined;
The hospital that only treats
Patients with COVID-19;
‘Carols may be hummed but not sung’;
The college that volunteers students
For mass-screening of the young;
The school that tells parents to keep
Healthy children quarantined;
The hospital that only treats
Patients with COVID-19;
The employer that forces staff
To choose between employment
And breathing through a face mask
While maintaining ‘social distance’;
The planes and trains and museums
That to their price of entry
Make vaccination a condition
And call it ‘voluntary’;
To choose between employment
And breathing through a face mask
While maintaining ‘social distance’;
The planes and trains and museums
That to their price of entry
Make vaccination a condition
And call it ‘voluntary’;
All are painted with that white-washed star
By hands moving without sense
The Quick Response digital code
Saluted at every entrance.
But willing or unwillingly
Compliance with Regulations
Is by default our given consent
To penalties and prosecutions:
By hands moving without sense
The Quick Response digital code
Saluted at every entrance.
But willing or unwillingly
Compliance with Regulations
Is by default our given consent
To penalties and prosecutions:
The protester who’s arrested
For demanding right of assembly;
The copper who kicks down your door
On suspicion you’re being friendly;
The nurse detained for rescuing
Her own mother from a care home;
The family stopped from seeing
A loved one left to die alone.
For demanding right of assembly;
The copper who kicks down your door
On suspicion you’re being friendly;
The nurse detained for rescuing
Her own mother from a care home;
The family stopped from seeing
A loved one left to die alone.
Doctors banned from discussing
PCR-test inaccuracy;
Oxford professors ridiculed
For explaining herd immunity;
Newspapers paying scientists
To denounce ‘conspiracies’
While faithfully quoting as fact
Pharmaceutical companies.
PCR-test inaccuracy;
Oxford professors ridiculed
For explaining herd immunity;
Newspapers paying scientists
To denounce ‘conspiracies’
While faithfully quoting as fact
Pharmaceutical companies.
The fixed-penalty notices
To ruin all but the wealthy:
Fining the poor ten-thousand pounds
For the crime of holding a party;
And six-thousand five-hundred pounds
For not wearing a face-covering
For which no trial shows a benefit
Except to normalise muzzling.
To ruin all but the wealthy:
Fining the poor ten-thousand pounds
For the crime of holding a party;
And six-thousand five-hundred pounds
For not wearing a face-covering
For which no trial shows a benefit
Except to normalise muzzling.
A public encouraged to snitch
On family, friends and neighbours;
COVID-marshals paid to inform
On people denounced as ‘murderers’;
Government thugs in uniform
The armed and armoured TSG
Assaulting the public to protect
Our public health security.
On family, friends and neighbours;
COVID-marshals paid to inform
On people denounced as ‘murderers’;
Government thugs in uniform
The armed and armoured TSG
Assaulting the public to protect
Our public health security.
Advisors paid by Government
To terrorise the nation;
Multinational billionaires
Investing in health regulation;
A Parliament licking the hand
Of a Government by decree;
‘Emergency Regulations’
Bringing the country to its knees.
To terrorise the nation;
Multinational billionaires
Investing in health regulation;
A Parliament licking the hand
Of a Government by decree;
‘Emergency Regulations’
Bringing the country to its knees.
A few drudges of providence
Who borrow all their qualities
From our own folly and wickedness
Which gave them birth and nursed them.
Dupes of this deep delusion
We dote with a mad idolatry
And who will not yield them worship
Are deemed enemies of their country.
Who borrow all their qualities
From our own folly and wickedness
Which gave them birth and nursed them.
Dupes of this deep delusion
We dote with a mad idolatry
And who will not yield them worship
Are deemed enemies of their country.
Sixty-eight million people
In a legal state of exception
Living under house arrest
Justified through mass deception.
Where each new statute erases
Our rights and civil liberties
Under a sentence of ‘lockdown’
Renewed in perpetuity.
In a legal state of exception
Living under house arrest
Justified through mass deception.
Where each new statute erases
Our rights and civil liberties
Under a sentence of ‘lockdown’
Renewed in perpetuity.
In this British oligarchy
The biosecurity state
A kingdom united in fear
The ‘New Normal’ agglomerate
On every screen can now be read
On every window, every door,
This statement of our servitude:
‘We’re sorry, but it’s the law.’
The biosecurity state
A kingdom united in fear
The ‘New Normal’ agglomerate
On every screen can now be read
On every window, every door,
This statement of our servitude:
‘We’re sorry, but it’s the law.’
But citing law when the law’s an ass
Through history to the present
Is the last resort of cowards
Obedient to any tyrant.
The choice is unavoidable
And it’s ours alone to speak:
Hail dictators or loud declare:
‘There is some shit we will not eat!’
Through history to the present
Is the last resort of cowards
Obedient to any tyrant.
The choice is unavoidable
And it’s ours alone to speak:
Hail dictators or loud declare:
‘There is some shit we will not eat!’