R.J. Stove: Thoughts on the Recent Murders of Police Officers
Thoughts on the Recent Murders of Police Officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge
“Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he [the terrorist] has severed every link with the social order and the civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose: to destroy it.”
—Sergei Nechayev, nineteenth-century Russian pamphleteer, blackmailer and catechist of exterminationism
“Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
—John Adams
I love the First Amendment!
My daily teenage spasms
Of hip post-Christian anarchy
Comprise my sole orgasms.
My bible’s Charlie Hebdo,
My sacral sense baptized
By pix of masturbating nuns
And Jesus sodomized.
Anthropoid rap’s my playlist.
“F**k tha police”, they screamed.
But of Baton Rouge and Dallas
I scarcely even dreamed.
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