American Kristallnacht

"Mob law ruled in Berlin throughout the afternoon and evening and hordes of hooligans indulged in an orgy of destruction. I have seen several anti-Jewish outbreaks in Germany during the last five years, but never anything as nauseating as this. Racial hatred and hysteria seemed to have taken complete hold of otherwise decent people. I saw fashionably dressed women clapping their hands and screaming with glee, while respectable middle-class mothers held up their babies to see the 'fun'."

~ Hugh Green, The Daily Telegraph, 1938

They came in

with pepper spray pellets blazing,

triangulating

They came in through the window

with the full blessing and authority

of unhinged might

The numbing fear

that God is right,

right, right ... feel his fright

Let America shake

Hit 'em in the back,

and that girl, too, whack!

Shove her in the car, bang her head against the door,

she might bleed a little, might even leave a scar,

but don't worry, her court-appointed attorney won't get her far

They can't afford legal defense

and no parents will come to their aid,

so shoot up their room with toxic wounds

And then just leave it there

'cause nobody cares as Mr. Nobody stares ...

Let the pepper spray hang in the cavernous air

The gawd general self-appointed Horus

has granted the license to deal with the weak,

the sick, the drug abused, the American "scum"

So then after that bright light white will come

So the purity of the might will reign in the sun

So the filthy trash will all be on the run

This is American Kristallnacht

a renewed tomb's curse worse than Hitler's little minuet

America's Kristallnacht, feel the fact,

Syria's Assad was just the opening act

Of all the things I wish to forget

the burn in the nostrils is beyond neglect

frenzied my brain, not enough rain, the lump in the neck

In addition to your loss of faith in the system,

the chemical weapon pepper spray will swell

 the mucous membranes of your eyes,

 which will cease believing

Your nose and throat, your fleshy moat,

will burn like some 14th century lost castle,

coughing at the charge of the Catholic brigades

Your eyes will dry like the planetary deserts,

Your eyes will close involuntary against the peace-keeping army,

and you will hyperventilate, burning in their sin

Psychological effects include paranoia, anxiety, panic,

which is just what a peaceful street gathering needs,

See the revolution, see the seeds, you don't bleed:
The imposition of order creates chaos
and that's all you need to read

The Nazi call is here, it's clear

hidden now behind the double-hurricane wind shear

but no one should ever forget, the fear is here

Time and money people

who move just one stone

and call it a day

won't do much to resist

or stop the sway

More than likely

they will be the first to line up

on the day of the big state-sanctioned violence parade

When is the U.S. Supreme Court going to rule that a brick is free speech, too?

American Kristallnacht came this year

watch them drop behind the veil of hell,

no better than any dictator in any era

American Kristallnacht came this year

(With apologies to anyone still living or dead 
who experienced pre-World War II Germany,
 because things aren't that bad here, yet - DLM)