The Price of Liberty

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The Others, we are told to fear,

they point at strange and different folk,

whose foreign tongues upon our streets,

and foreign food and foreign dress 

might “dilute our Britishness”

as if it were an orange squash.

 

But evil is resident, not afar,

the enemy spread their fear and scares,

whilst warning us, look, foreign folk

have come to steal your homes and jobs,

forget they flee “Forever Wars”,

forget we've trashed all you held dear,

your NHS now on its knees,

your mental health that's in the bin,

look over there, at that failed state,

those terrorists (that we’ve armed for years),

the enemy is them, not us.

 

Their lies believed, their sins forgot,

we voted “CHANGE”, and change we got,

a target’s now upon our backs,

dissent from genocide’s a crime,

we’re now the enemy within,

our Liberty is in the bin.

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Fiona LaliRevolutionary Communist PartyBritishnessevillibertygenocidecrimechangeterroristsmental healtharms industryNHShomesjobsForever Wars

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Auracle

Fri 25th Jul 2025 19:13

No problem. I watched the Human Rights Lawyer videolink. I remember hearing the news on New Years Day 2008/2009. We were driving through the Alps, as friends. It was about a Gaza-bombing. I remember it made me really sad. During that trip we would listen to a CD by 'the Alan Parsons Project'. 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination' is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. Can you see the contrast?

Now The Alps are falling apart, quite literally. So we can't ignore them anymore!

If we were in a constant state of trauma, then perhaps we were also in a constant state of dissociation.

Let's leave it with that. I'm setting a boundary, for my own well-being.

Take care, Uilleam.




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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Fri 25th Jul 2025 18:56

Thanks, Auracle.
I've just watched a Palestinian man die of deliberately inflicted starvation before my very eyes onTV
....but hey-ho, it's a "complicated" situation-that's life!😃

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Fri 25th Jul 2025 18:52

How could that Human Rights lawyer have possibly known anything about this?

https://youtu.be/z4M_usg8GMg?list=PL9n8fNFZ2frSmBVFrhaCwOoXb9qQUvPJe

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Auracle

Fri 25th Jul 2025 18:43

It's good to hear your poem. Feels harsh, the reality of things. I hope this helps us as well.

Rolph David

Fri 25th Jul 2025 10:49

Uilleam, your poem reads like a siren in a fog of propaganda—sharp, unflinching, and painfully necessary. I admire how you cut through the manufactured fear of “the Other” to reveal where the real damage lies: not outside our borders, but in the hands of those who feed us lies while dismantling everything that once held meaning. The line about “dissent from genocide’s a crime” stopped me cold—it captures exactly how dissent is being reframed as threat. This isn’t just poetry; it’s resistance. Thank you for refusing to look away.

Kind regards,
Rolph

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Fri 25th Jul 2025 09:42

Thanks for your likes:
Tom Doolan
Aisha Suleman
Holden Moncrieff
Yanma Hidayah

We mistakenly thought that Fascism had been banished from Britain at the Battle of Cable Street, and the ensuing WWII; but Mosley’s and Hitler’s spectre now stalks the streets of our allegedly “United Kingdom”, aided and abetted by the Murdochian Sewer, and gutless and corrupt politicians.

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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Fri 25th Jul 2025 08:08

The sound of 💖Fiona Lali 💖of the Revolutionary Communist Party speaking truth to power, and giving Nigel Farage a right good ragging, is music to my ear. Hypocrites and sanctimonious priggs, beware.

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