By
James Bredin
If we need an army, it should be to protect us from them,
Our entrenched for life politicians we cannot condemn,
Because they made the proper appointments for their protection,
Where no free votes are allowed, term limits or rejection.
And our army should limit them to their second term,
Though power the ultimate aphrodisiac they affirm,
And all their appointees should be questioned at length,
About vested interests, connections and where the money went.
Serious series of sponsorship scandals and arrears,
Inquiries into ethics for the last eleven years,
Secret silent contracts from the correct connection,
And returned to the party to bankroll an election.
Large loopholes allow lecherous lounge lizards to win,
And after the election they are seldom seen again,
They think and talk and walk in lock step with the party leader,
Or go back to their old job as a meter reader.
As we listen to the voice of the instant translator,
And the crooked system revealed by their manipulator,
And then denied by this sanctimonious lot,
They say its all old history and it should be forgot.
Unfortunately were trapped in status quo management,
No changes allowed in their muzzled mismanagement,
We only have to wait for the next incident of shame,
We need the army and changes to avoid more of the same.
Thursday, April 14, 2005