You Are Not Free

A criticism of the delusion of freedom.

The greatest propaganda 

In America is 

The delusion 

That you are free

Though you do not

Rest in a cell

You are not free

When you submit 

To the ruling class

To get by 

You are not free

Standards and laws

Made to protect

Divest you

From yourself

You are not free

For the sake of stability

You conform to a job

That you hate

A good little drone

You are not free

Even if you do not agree

With the laws that they make

You must obey

Or they will take you away

You are not free

In order to maintain

The basic family bonds

You are constrained 

By their wants and needs

You are not free

If you want to fish

Or hunt

To feed your family

Or just for fun

You need a license

You are not free

Even when you vote to decide

What’s wrong and what’s right

And elect politicians for your side

Those people lie

Doing for the rich and their own kind

And the choice you had

Be it good or bad

Was a fractionally effective

Cause you are not free

Tolls on the roads

Taxes on your checks

Fines and other fees

Cause you are not free

Been a while since the draft

But that could come back

If the private war contractors

Ever get busted

And taken out of the field

The army will make you yield

Or imprison or kill

Cause you are not free

And freedom of speech

Could cost you your job

Slander if spoken

Libel if written

The rich lawyers and judges

Give and take permissions

PC speech 

Abstract unwritten rules

Condemn you and yours

Cause you are not free

Any laws that you break

The ones you did not make

Could turn you into

A prisoner of the state

Enslaved, forced labor

Cause you are not free

 

And if you want to leave 

This great country

To travel freely

You must pay for 

A small passport

Or you will be confined

To the imaginary lines

People made up

Cause you are not free

Some will say

If you speak this way

You are not truly American

That other countries are worse

But what they lack

Or if I can’t solve this problem

Does not detract from the fact

Does not make lies true

What I am telling you

Is you are not free

I’m tired of this rant

Cause the list is to long

And I wish I was wrong

So tell me please

Where is your true liberty