'In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.'
Charles de Gaulle

‘Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.’
Unknown

ONE WORLD ORDER

Squeezed inescapably
In powerful tightening
Cold financial coils
And strangling laws
Of high collaboration.
But is the quiet
Smiling peace
Of self-satisfied dreaming
Even the python
Dies of sepsis
In three days
From the tiniest rat bite.
Graham Vivian Lancaster

ZIMBABWEAN DRUMS

'The drums are calling, old man, and they are louder by the day.
They are calling you to judgement and now's the time to pay,
for the wrongs you've done your country and the trust betrayed.
So hear those drums swelling, hear well and be afraid.
You came to power on waves of hope that you would make your mark,
in a land that shone in Africa like diamonds in the dark.
In simple faith the people put their trust in your care,
and were repaid by the Fifth Brigade and the CIO and fear.
Twenty eight years of motorcades and lavish trips abroad,
A nation's heritage is lost through patronage and fraud.
The Chiefs grow fat while people starve and famine stalks our homes.
On idle farms the weeds grow rank and cover cattle bones.
The youth are taught your slogans but even as they sing
The drums of change are beating for the truth is seeping in.
The demagogue has feet of clay and lies will not sustain
the shattered land that once seemed free and will be so again.
Too late to blame the drought, the Brits, the Whites, the MDC.
For all know where the finger points with cold finality.
So hear the drums, old man, and listen to them well,
They foretell of your end days and they have much to tell.
For he who sows the seeds of hate will reap the grapes of wrath,
so tremble in your bed at night, at the end of your sorry path.'
Unknown

Now hear the ancient bugle call...
Blown for Rhodesians - One and All
Monomatapa will rise again
ABOVE IT ALL
THESE WORDS are by ERIC WEBSTER

'I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.'
PD James

'Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. '
George Orwell

'THE STRUGGLE'

freedom struggles
of yours and of mine,
the dreams of perfection
of our own making,
you to your way,
me to mine.
our struggle is over,
and yet it continues
for everyone's dream,
for you and and I achieved nothing,
in your way,
and in mine.
Graham Vivian Lancaster

PIMPED RIDE 

What better way
My dear
To ride free through
Africa
Than on the back
Of a scavenging politician
With bulging cheeks
Stuffed full,
Looking for more?;
Graham Vivian Lancaster

‘Absolute power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad’.
Lord Acton

'I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.’
Thomas Jefferson 1802

'100,000 Englishmen simply cannot control 350 million Indians, if those Indians refuse to cooperate.'
Mahatma Gandhi

 

 

 

'The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.'
Philip K Dick

 

 

'Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed, regularly, and for the same reason.'
Unknown