{"id":1076,"date":"2017-07-29T00:43:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T23:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjkmusic.co.uk\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2017-07-29T00:43:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T23:43:40","slug":"treason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mabno.co.uk\/kjkmusic\/treason\/","title":{"rendered":"Treason"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unangelic Voices EP by Kerry JK<\/a><\/code><\/p>\n

It came on the news after stirring overnight
\nThat the language of Lenin is now the weapon of the right
\nThe true way’s the new way
\nThe old ideals are toast
\nIf this is treason, let us make the most<\/p>\n

They talk of unity when they really mean submission
\nThey punish dissidence rather than admit contrition
\nAuthority is measured by the brashness of the boast
\nIf this is treason, let us make the most<\/p>\n

Moguls mask the margins
\nTo marginalise the fight
\nA pebble’s like a boulder
\nIf dropped from sufficient height
\nThe disgruntled are distracted
\nWith an enemy off coast
\nIf this is treason, let us make the most.<\/p>\n

United in diversity
\nDivided by conformity
\nResist the creeping terror
\nOf thankful uniformity
\nInvoke Mandela, Ghandi and Bodicea’s ghost
\nIf this is treason, let us make the most.<\/p>\n

While we’re waiting for the papers
\nTo be delivered in the post
\nIf this is treason, let us make the most.<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

This was a response to a series of increasingly worrying headlines by UK newspapers over the years leading up to 2016’s Brexit vote, which were a little to casual for my liking in the way they would declare dissenting voices “enemies of the people” and if a vote against the right wing zeitgeist wasn’t actually declared an act of treason it was certainly implied.<\/em><\/p>\n

When the USA voted to declare independence from the UK, Patrick Henry famously declared, “If this is treason let us make the most of it”, a sentiment that strikes a chord with how I feel about the direction my native country has taken recently.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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