Pushing An Agenda by "any means necessary"
What is trust and accountability when, the constitution is changed, opponents are systemically removed, control is tightened, opponents are killed; in these situations who is transparent? Power is routinely abused in our communities. We feel it less- emergency undermines the tenets- watchdogs of deviance ceaselessly monitor. When checks fail to balance, obviating representative distributions of power, poeticly... 'having a voice' becomes irrelevant- ceaselessly irrelevant. There is more TRUE in a typical day's agenda spent on surviving: + Over 1700 Pakistanis died in a week of violence against schools. + Due to lingering effects of the 'War on Drugs', Mexico has recently been grouped with Pakistan as one of the counties most likely to become a "failed state". + Hundreds of women and children were killed last month in southern Sudan by spear. + In Russia, this year, a human rights advocate was beaten and another assassinated. All of this, and yet, thus far, we have not invoked, Our ongoing war with Lord Resistance of the Congo- burn the villages, slaughter the civilians, kidnap the children. If only we had a status-quo atrocity deemed news-worthy. Not Gaza Stripe, not the ghosts of Cambodia, Bosnia or Rwanda. Something *privileged to speak.* Your agenda is what you think you know.
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