Peace, Order, and Good Government

If any of you get the specific event and place I am referring to, you deserve a billion high-fives and a parade!

Peace, Order and Good Government

I look around me at the hypocrisy

The injustice

The suffering

I look at the shabby clothes

The amputated limbs

The starving children

I look at the so-called “relief camps” 

Meant to lock up the young 

I watch on from afar while they burn all the clothes

Burning stacks pile towards the heavens

I watch as the Police beat him

Kick him, take him away

For trying to change this system

For trying to make this land a better place

As I look at the shuffling mass

Of the unemployed

Trying to feed their families

Trying to just stay alive

So they don’t end up as the corpses in the street

Or the screaming ones in the hospital

Oh there have been ones who wished to change the system

And there were those who just wanted a better wage

They all met the same fate

Labels of Communism, Section 98

Deportation, even attempted murder

That is what they do for 

Peace, Order, and

Good Government

The bloods flows over the coal

As we look into the poverty in the midst of plenty

Brutal Repression

Prison Camps

Great journeys along the railroads

Stopped in a great city

To be defeated there by the forces of repression

All for Peace, Order, and

Good Government

And now it has passed into the dust of history

Ended by yet more spilled blood

Blood, Blood, Blood

All in the name of Peace, Order, and

Good Government

Author's Note

If anyone gets the specific place and time period i am referring to in this poem, or at least think they do, email me and I will tell you if you are right. And give you an email high-five! Criticism welcome as always

Reviews

[spence]

I have a few ideas about the specifics of this write, but I feel it more pertinent to comment that, in part, it could describe anywhere and that as an advocate of 'anarchist' theory it leaves me with the same question that such events always leave in my mind,
'Surely 'we'- the majority impoverished, the unfortunate, the maimed and tamed, the workers and inventors, etc, etc could do better than the elitists who make up 1% of the population they cull and control?'
I will mull over the possibilities of specific events- my initial instincts were fluctuating wildly between extremes such as aushwitz and pol pot, but I then recalled your nationality and thought of less known events in your country- is this anything to do with 'October' in the 60's or 70's? (I believe a canadian band did a song about this event- the band are DOA, but can't remember the song!)
This is an excellent stand alone political poem that is just as awe-inspiring read universally at any rate. Fantastic job thoctar. Have a great christmas! All the best to you and yours, spence

[Thoctar]

i sent Spence a message telling him the real answer, if anyone wants to try again, keep going! I will give you a hint, it is about something that happened in Canada