Three Seated Monkeys:Drugs, Poppy Fields and Corrupt Aid Dollars
What is This War on Drugs?
The annual justifcation for aid.
On one day of each year the powers to be in Kabul invite Foreign Ministers from every country that provides commercial, financial and/or military aid to Afghanistan, to witness the annual opium and drug burning session. This burn off is supposed to provide evidence of Afghanistan’s total commitment to stamping out the local production and trafficking of some of the purest death on earth. The tons of ‘allegedly confiscated’ drugs and what could best be described as a very poor grade of flour are piled up and set fire to in a huge ceremony, attended by known drug lords, foreign and local dignitaries and selected press. As it is incinerated the dignitaries nod their acceptance and amidst the backslapping, new aid deals and further drug shipments are openly set in place for the next twelve month period. The ‘burn off’ represents no more than 2% of the total ‘illegal’ opium, hash and heroin Afghan stocks and subsequent exports to the lucrative Western and Asian markets.
The whole process is supported in some respect by military forces from the entire spectrum on coalition forces. The same young men and women who stand to lose their lives in a country governed by corrupt and two faced politicians and drug lords. On the streets of Western and Asian cities, addicts are created to ensure that those who control the 98% of Afghan Class A Drugs that avoided the annual burn off, get the maximum returns on the deceptive game played and justified by spin. I don't believe in the spin and I don't believe there will ever be an end to the misery of hard drugs, until the politicians start telling the truth. I guess that means there will NEVER Be a Real Solution to the scourge and corruption!
* by Pearldiver *
Dark Deeds of Decision Makers
Poppy Fields in Full Production.
Tell it Straight - The Truth!
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil
We found him dead, slumped over on the floor
As most parents pray that drugs will just go away
Our troops are used to hold open smuggling doors
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil
In Kabul, they honor corrupt power brokers so
Who annually burn a token of the total opium grown
And justify the billions, in dollars paid to stop the flow
Speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil
Grease their palms and they will always look away
Back home cutting smack with bleach or laxatives
From Kabul there are drug shipments every day
Hear no evil, speak no evil, see no evil
What they don’t see, will harm them in the end
Illusion is a powerful spin when it comes to terrorism
And no politician wants to have or know a junkie friend
Speak no evil, see no evil, hear no evil
Your war on drugs, what does it really mean?
When money corrupts our cultural differences
And things like apathy aren’t always what they seem
See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil
They use the drug trade to justify new social laws
And claim that the body of the unseen, guilty one
Was dumped at sea, beyond illusion’s shores
Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil
Three monkeys sit and plot a suicide bomber’s raid
As sons and daughters die in distant poppy fields
Or overdose at home, among false promises made
Hear no truth, see no truth, speak no truth
Evil monkeys, devoid of reality and of human sense
Forced your drugs, corrupt wars and spin upon us all
Give back the value of our kids' innocence
Tell us the damn truth beyond the armored call
Burning drugs - Burning words
Our children die - Falling down
Steal our innocence - Steal our lives
See no evil monkeys - Burning words
Burning towers - Falling down
Poppy Fields - Supply the world
Send our troops - Send more aide
Our children die - Burning Lies
Burning words - Spin your spin
Burning towers - Falling down
Wasted lives - Again.....
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* by Pearldiver *
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