Rebels and ranters,

holders of banners ,

anarchists, acid-heads,

street marchers, stay in beds,

sometimes your protest

just won´t get noticed,

depends on timing

whose star is rising,

what story´s in the news,

which way they pitch the truth,

which way they shake it,

subvert and shape it

so they can make it pay



But you can stand free

under the statute of liberty

just keep on pushing them away



Media outcries, sketches and outlines,

they´re irresistible, one sound-bite

and you´re full, columns and leaders

march through their readers

until they all think the same



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Who airs the voices?

Provides the choices

of which interest to protect?

Gags some and not the rest?

Free speech can scramble,

words are a gamble,

happends so often and to so many,

first they are the coming storm

then they´re the uniform,

then they desert you

harass and hurt you

until you what they say.



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