do you remember the first thing you had to
memorize? was it the pledge of allegiance? a five
year old stands for a flag that killed off all the
real americans do we really like being controlled
or are our heads just spinning? more cops more
prisons to bear down on crime and violence yet we
glamorize violence through televised wars my
friend was unjustly beaten by the police and
broken star brought shame to the 57th precinct and
with their power came extortion and corruption and
failing to report rape and hatecrimes to make
chicago look safe tell me is this secrutiy, do we
need protection from the police? we need to
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control threatens public safety do you feel safe?
see, i don't know what we're thinking paying taxes
so that we can be controlled do you know what
ahppens when we start accepting everything that
we've been told? we all fall down and we close our
eyes and pretend not to see but why is a crime not
a crime when it's committed by police? we close
our eyes and pretend not to see but my friend got
beat up by police i had a dream that my whole town
had turned into a prison a cop on every corner but
i don't feel too safe feels like i'm in jail