Abhijit Naskar's Blog - Posts Tagged "anti-war"

You know what distinguishes
a reformist from a terrorist!
The capacity to destroy the world,
yet choosing not to.

The capacity to press the button,
yet choosing not to.
The capacity to pull the trigger,
yet choosing not to.

The capacity to oblige the state,
but choosing humanity instead.
The capacity to be patriotic,
yet choosing to be human instead.

War is the symptom,
patriotism is the disease.
Terrorists harbor patriotism,
Reformists harbor peace.

Ceasefire is a diplomatic gimmick,
They cease only to hit back harder.
Demilitarization is what we need,
We got no use for one more ceasefire.

Ceasefire only postpones war,
disarmament instills peace.
Armistice empowers armament,
demilitarization plants peace.

Tyrants don’t call truce to allow aid,
but only to rearm themselves,
so they can call in more ammunition,
from their apely imperialist friends.

One more ceasefire we could do without,
World is wailing for the final ceasefire.
Disown every statesman who prides military,
Builders of military are merchants of murder.

There’s no difference between
a soldier and a contract killer.
Hitmen are paid to kill individuals,
Soldiers are paid to kill in bulk.

Righteous soldiers don’t exist,
they only exist in fairytale movies.
No academy trains youngsters for peace,
they manufacture state-abiding terrorists.

If any soldier ever wakes up to peace,
they’re instantly discharged without honor.
Thinking soldiers are no use to state,
States only want brainless suicide bombers.

Enemy of war is enemy of the state,
Making of peace is crime against state.

Peace is a crime against state, that’s
why patriotism is a glorified quality.
More patriotic the citizens of a nation,
less likely they’ll question warmongery.

Question hate, not harmony.
Ban bombs, not books.
Doubt borders, not benevolence.
Chain the worms, not wombs.

Stronger the military,
stupider the citizens.
Louder the ammunition,
lousier the education.

Mightier the missiles,
measlier the minds.
Sharper the snipers,
sicklier the spines.

Fuller the magazines,
feebler the veins.
Bolder the bombs,
wobblier the brains.

More titanic the tanks,
more pathetic the primates.
World in trance of arms,
is a planet of the apes.

One pen can defeat a thousand guns,
that’s why books get banned, not guns.
There’s nothing more dangerous than
books that radicalize you against war.

When you take away fear from the citizens,
you take away their initiative for war.
And when citizens no longer conform to war,
that’s the biggest threat to political power.

You cannot ask citizens to pay for the bombs,
if they believe more in peace than paranoia.
Stupid taxpayers are the biggest sponsors of war,
patriotism is genocide, military is massacre.

I have zero tolerance for any civilian, politician
or scholar who takes pride in the military –
go back to the jungle, because that’s where you
belong, with the rest of your animal society.

If I were a fascist,
I’d press that button,
and wipe the colonizers
off the planet for good.

If I were a fascist,
I’d press that button,
and let millions of innocents
burn for a greater global good.

If I were a fascist,
I’d press that button,
sanctified of filth
we would start anew.

If only I were a fascist
like you – if only!

Death of soldiers is PR goldmine for
nationalist nutters, no matter the side,
because it gives them the appetizing
ammunition to sell some more fear,

some more prejudice,
some more fanatic tribalism,
neighbor fighting neighbor,
all wrapped in cute pills of patriotism –

which ultimately manufactures
some more orphans, some more widows,
some more elderly who lose their hope.

Trenches don’t have a right side and wrong side,
they only have one side, the side of dogma and lies.
Asses to asses, cheek to cheek, apes laud the apes,
declaring true apehood through their half-open flies.

My nation, your nation,
my religion, your religion,
my culture, your culture,
will be the end of us apes –

outwardly fancy, inwardly filthy,
sneering, leering, gutter-crawling,
conniving, two-faced, fanatic,
frivolous, pointless bloody apes –

apes who can’t see right from wrong,
without the blinkers of creed –
apes who can’t tell order from disorder,
unless instructed by legal decree –

apes who would sell their own brother,
if monkey kings command, it’s patriotic.

Revolution a day keeps corruption away,
freethinking days prevent genocidal nights.
Citizens without brain leads to democracy on drugs,
paranoia is lifeblood for power-hungry parasites.

Parasites thrive on gaslighting neighbors,
peaceful coexistence is a threat to political power.
Politicians remain safe through war and drought,
it’s the people who pay with blood, money and tears.

Parasites don’t have nationality,
parasites don’t have religion,
parasites only have a bottomless hunger
to keep the throne by calculated cleansing.

Nationalism has nothing to do with culture,
fundamentalism has nothing to do with religion.
Win a war, lose a war, politicians lose nothing,
living off domesticated sheep comatosed by opium.