The Greatest Speech Ever Made

This is Charlie Chaplin's final speech in The Great Dictator, and is unarguably the greatest speech ever given. Please consider these dear words and their relevance to our current state of affairs. This speech is a must see!

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“I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that.

We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want.

Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair.

The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder.

Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite.

Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance!

Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!” ― Charlie Chaplin

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2012 Crossing Over, A New Beginning (Documentary)

The message of 2012 is for humans to return to their true roots. We are nothing if we don't recognize that our well being is intimately connected to the well being of all life on our planet.

'2012 Crossing Over, A New Beginning' investigates the galactic alignment, consciousness awakening, cycles of evolution, our binary star system with Sirius, the fear agenda in the media, who's behind it, love vs fear and much more.

“The awakening of consciousness is the next evolutionary step for mankind.” -Eckhart Tolle

Now that we're done talking about the end of the world, maybe we can focus on making this the beginning of a better world.

'2012: Time for Change' presents an optimistic alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom. Directed by Emmy Award nominee João Amorim, the film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method.

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The man who changed Iceland - The message for Greece

The man who forced the government of Iceland to resign and kicked out the IMF representatives from his country, Hordur Torfarson, is now teaching meta-modern democracy throughout Europe. The rest of the world would benefit from following the example set by Iceland: Arresting the corrupt bankers who are responsible for the current economic turmoil.

Iceland's president explained how his country recovered so quickly from the recession: “The government bailed out the people and imprisoned the banksters — the opposite of what America and the rest of Europe did.”


ICELAND. No news from the Icelandic Revolution?

The true measure of the leader is not how many follower he has, but how many leaders he creates. Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison. The difference between bankers and the mafia is becoming increasingly indistinguishable.

Control Your Money or Your Money Will Control You Change your attitude toward debt. Every time you use credit for a purchase think, “Debt is slavery; I am making myself a slave.”

“Manipulators rarely advise you to seek new and diverse information or to 'learn and research for yourself,' it tends to be safer for exploitative and irresponsible leaders to keep their citizens in the dark; in their view less independent thought is better. Independent thought leads to an inquiring mind, a mindset that eventually leads to the questioning of authority figures, and that is the one thing that inadequate leaders do not want.”

Governments have never existed to solve problems domestic or international. Governments and their institutions exist merely to further and secure the interests of favored groups, but We the People are never the favored group.

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ICELAND. No news from the Icelandic Revolution?

In Iceland, the people have made the government resign, the primary banks have been nationalized, it was decided to not pay the debt that these created with Great Britain and Holland due to their bad financial politics and a public assembly has been created to rewrite the constitution. And all of this in a peaceful way.

A whole revolution against the powers that have created the current global crisis. This is why there hasn't been any publicity during the last two years: What would happen if the rest of the EU citizens took this as an example? What would happen if the US citizens took this as an example..

Top Economists: Iceland Did It Right … And Everyone Else Is Doing It Wrong

“What Iceland did was right. It would have been wrong to burden future generations with the mistakes of the financial system.” -Joe Stiglitz, Nobel prize winning economist

“What [Iceland's recovery] demonstrated was the … case for letting creditors of private banks gone wild eat the losses.” -Paul Krugman, Nobel prize winning economist



This is a summary of the facts:

• 2008. The main bank of the country is nationalized.
• The Krona, the currency of Iceland devaluates and the stock market stops. The country is in bankruptcy.
• 2008. The citizens protest in front of parliament and manage to get new elections that make the resignation of the prime minister and his whole government.
• The country is in bad economic situation.
• A law proposes paying back the debt to Great Britain and Holland through the payment of 3,500 million euros, which will be paid by the people of Iceland monthly during the next 15 years, with a 5.5% interest.
• 2010. The people go out in the streets and demand a referendum. In January 2010 the president denies the approval and announces a popular meeting.
• In March the referendum and the denial of payment is voted in by 93%. Meanwhile the government has initiated an investigation to bring to justice those responsible for the crisis, and many high level executives and bankers are arrested. The Interpol dictates an order that make all the implicated parties leave the country.

In this crisis an assembly is elected to rewrite a new Constitution which can include the lessons learned from this, and which will substitute the current one (a copy of the Danish Constitution).
25 citizens are chosen, with no political affiliation, out of the 522 candidates. For candidacy all that was needed was to be an adult and have the support of 30 people. The constitutional assembly starts in February of 2011 to present the ‘carta magna’ from the recommendations given by the different assemblies happening throughout the country. It must be approved by the current Parliament and by the one constituted through the next legislative elections.

So in summary of the Icelandic revolution:

1. Resignation of the whole government.
2. Nationalization of the bank.
3. Referendum so that the people can decide over the economic decisions.
4. Incarcerating the responsible parties.
5. Rewriting of the constitution by its people.

This move is what got Julius Ceasar killed in ancient Rome. He reduced the mortgage debt of the population by 50%. This would be a viable solution to the problem. Bank shareholders and holders of mortgage debt instruments would suffer, so your life insurance policy and retirement savings might become worthless, but your house would be clear title. This is awesome. It shows when the people DO STAND UP they have more power and win against the corrupt bankers and politicians of a country. Iceland is forgiving and erasing the mortgage debt of the population. They are putting the bankers and politicians on the "Bench of the Accused." Which means I assume they are putting them on trial for corruption.

Now the rest of people of the world need to start doing the same thing. We all need to stand up and against all the corruption and fraud of politicians that are puppets of the banks and corporations. The government of Iceland has forgiven the mortgage debt for much of its population. This nation chose a very different way of stopping the crisis from the rest of European countries. It decided to hear the requests of the population and to put politicians and bankers on the bench of the accused three years after their financial excesses would sank one of the most prosperous economies in 2008.

Have we been informed of this through the media? Has any political program in radio or TV commented on this? No! The Icelandic people have been able to show that there is a way to beat the system and has given a democracy lesson to the world!

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NOT Seen on TV!

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” -Malcolm X

The short video above attempts to answer the following:

-How dangerous white phosphorus & Depleted Uranium dropped on Iraq is.
-The link between BAE systems, Lockhead Martin and Rolls Royce.
-The CIA's involvement on the killing of at least 3 presidents who weren't US allies: Mossadegh, Allende and Lumumba.
-Who opposes the US apart from the Muslims.
-Who is Jeremiah Wright and Ali Abunimah.
-Who really owns Obama and what is AIPAC.

Facts about the War Industry

-Barclays the largest investor in Global arms has £7.3 billion in shares and is amonsgst the top 10 largest investor in US arms companies.
-HSBC holds shares worth £450 million and has loaned £27 Billion to the industry.
-Lloyds holds shares worth £717 Million and serves as principle banker to BAE Systems.
-Aviva, AXA, Standard life and many other well known companies invest in the arms trade.
-Rolls Royce is also the 17th Largest Arms Manufacturer in the world Rolls Royce is the 2nd Largest Manufacturer of Aerospace Engines powering approximately 25% of the world's military aircraft and has its equipment installed on over 2,200 warships including all of the UK's nuclear submarines.

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Clip of the NATO Game Over campaign 2012

“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.” -Nelson Mandela

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END The New World Order with Global Non Compliance!

The richest 300 people in Europe and North America have the same income as 4.7 billion poor people, according to a World Bank study in 2002. People need to understand the enemy, and understand the weapons they use. Then use those same weapons against them. We are in a period of massive social, political and spiritual transformation. We have the freedom to peacefully not co-operate with the old system. It is time to exercise that freedom.

The money system is the head of the snake. Cut the head off the snake and the rest of it will whither and die. There need be NO violence, no guns, no banners, no slogans, just a united act of global non compliance. It's time for us all to collectively stand together and address the root cause of the problems.

“You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.” -Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.” -Albert Einstein

Stop complying with it and you will shut it down. And the best form of non compliance is love. Approach every issue with love. Rather than obediently following orders given to you by a commanding officer, and rather than doing what is right for you personally, do what is actually right. And, if a leader wants to send you to war, say no sir, I won’t murder other peoples’ children for you any more. You’ll have to go and do it yourself.

You will be called coward by the military, but such is not the case. Because it’s much easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. And it takes a far braver man to stand up for what is right, and spit in the face of authority, than it does to blindly follow orders due to fear of the consequences. Understand that we are all one, and the key to real change and unity in this world lies with love.

“The pioneers of a warless world, are the young men [and women] who refuse military service.” -Albert Einstein

Simply stop giving these people the power to control you. Understand that the only power they have is the power the people give them. Understand that injustice towards one is injustice towards all. Injustice towards him, is injustice against you, and there should be no grey area in your mind in regards to that. Everyone needs to stop going along with it, and it needs to be done immediately. It’s time to cut the head off the snake.

The Revolution is not coming. The Revolution is NOW!

“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you: pull your beard, flick your face to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor.” -John Lennon

17 things YOU can you do to END the New World Order

1. Turn off or throw away your T.V.
2. Think for yourself.
3. Question all so-called ‘Authority’
4. Get out, and/or stay out, of debt!
5. Use cash, trade or barter as much as possible, rather than debit card/credit cards
6. Get rid of grocery store ‘discount’ cards –grocery stores provide this information to insurance companies.
7. Bank at a Credit Union, or any alternative to the ‘TBTF’ Banks, that participated in the 2008 Banker Bailout.
8. Buy products “Made in YOUR country"
9. Start your own garden
10. Meditate or pray - reduce your stress!
11. Get exercise!
12. Read a book/eBook: The Zeitgeist Movement - Orientation Guide.
13. Listen to soothing classical, jazz, ambient, dub or other alternative music.
14. Watch Fall of the Republic - Architecture of the New World Order (2009) documentary.
15. Watch End Game (2009) & Wake Up Call (2009) documentaries.
16. Watch Esoteric Agenda (2008) & Kymatica (2009) documentaries.
17. Watch THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take (2011) and ETHOS. A Time For Change (2012) documentaries.

“Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.” -Martin Luther King Jr.

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We want to be FREE! (short documentary)

This short documentary is featuring prophetic voices from the past of the people of the world, for the people of the world… for all we want is to be free!

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.” -Robert A. Heinlein

People around the world took to the streets in protest. They want to be free of terror. They want to be free of war. They want to be free from the enslavement of governments. They want to be free from the failing financial system. They want to be free of greed and corruption. They want to be free of media manipulation.

They want to be free to choose! They want to be free to live life to the fullest. They want to be free to love and to live in peace.

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” -Thomas Jefferson

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” -Albert Camus

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Viva la Revolution! - Poverty of Philosophy

The year 2011 was the beginning of the global revolution. The year 2012 will be the year that shall never be forgotten with a positive result for humanity, not for the 1 %!

Most of my Latino and black people who are struggling to get food, clothes and shelter in the hood are so concerned with that, that philosophising about freedom and socialist democracy is usually unfortunately beyond their rationale. They don't realize that America can't exist without separating them from their identity, because if we had some sense of who we really are, there's no way in hell we'd allow this country to push it's genocidal consensus on our homelands. This ignorance exists, but it can be destroyed.

Niggas talk about change and working within the system to achieve that. The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you. There is usually nothing wrong with compromise in a situation, but compromising yourself in a situation is another story completely, and I have seen this happen long enough in the few years that I've been alive to know that it's a serious problem. Latino America is a huge colony of countries whose presidents are cowards in the face of economic imperialism. You see, third world countries are rich places, abundant in resources, and many of these countries have the capacity to feed their starving people and the children we always see digging for food in trash on commercials. But plutocracies, in other words a government run by the rich such as this one and traditionally oppressive European states, force the third world into buying overpriced, unnecessary goods while exporting huge portions of their natural resources.

I'm quite sure that people will look upon my attitude and sentiments and look for hypocrisy and hatred in my words. My revolution is born out of love for my people, not hatred for others.

You see, most of Latinos are here because of the great inflation that was caused by American companies in Latin America. Aside from that, many are seeking a life away from the puppet democracies that were funded by the United States; places like El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Republica Dominicana, and not just Spanish-speaking countries either, but Haiti and Jamaica as well.

As different as we have been taught to look at each other by colonial society, we are in the same struggle and until we realize that, we'll be fighting for scraps from the table of a system that has kept us subservient instead of being self-determined. And that's why we have no control over when the embargo will stop in Cuba, or when the bombs will stop dropping in Vieques.

But you see, here in America the attitude that is fed to us is that outside of America there live lesser people. "Fuck them, let them fend for themselves." No, Fuck you, they are you. No matter how much you want to dye your hair blonde and put fake eyes in, or follow an anorexic standard of beauty, or no matter how many diamonds you buy from people who exploit your own brutally to get them, no matter what kind of car you drive or what kind of fancy clothes you put on, you will never be them. They're always gonna look at you as nothing but a little monkey. I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately trying to be something I'm really not, just to fit in. And whether we want to accept it or not, that's what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us.

I want a better life for my family and for my children, but it doesn't have to be at the expense of millions of lives in my homeland. We're given the idea that if we didn't have these people to exploit then America wouldn't be rich enough to let us have these little petty material things in our lives and basic standards of living. No, that's wrong. It's the business giants and the government officials who make all the real money. We have whatever they kick down to us. My enemy is not the average white man, it's not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the street; my enemy is the white man I don't see: the people in the white house, the corporate monopoly owners, fake liberal politicians those are my enemies. The generals of the armies that are mostly conservatives those are the real Mother-Fuckers that I need to bring it to, not the poor, broke country-ass soldier that's too stupid to know shit about the way things are set up.

In fact, I have more in common with most working and middle-class white people than I do with most rich black and Latino people. As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue. Many of us are in the same boat and it's sinking, while these bougie Mother-Fuckers ride on a luxury liner, and as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat we're all in, we're gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole.

In other words, I don't want to escape the plantation I want to come back, free all my people, hang the Mother-Fucker that kept me there and burn the house to the god damn ground. I want to take over the encomienda and give it back to the people who work the land.

You cannot change the past but you can make the future, and anyone who tells you different is a Fucking lethargic devil. I don't look at a few token Latinos and black people in the public eye as some type of achievement for my people as a whole. Most of those successful individuals are sell-outs and house Negros.

But, I don't consider brothers a sell-out if they move out of the ghetto. Poverty has nothing to do with our people. It's not in our culture to be poor. That's only been the last 500 years of our history; look at the last 2000 years of our existence and what we brought to the world in terms of science, mathematics, agriculture and forms of government. You know the idea of a confederation of provinces where one federal government controls the states? The Europeans who came to this country stole that idea from the Iroquois LEAGUE. The idea of impeaching a ruler comes from an Aztec tradition. That's why Montezuma was stoned to death by his own people 'cause he represented the agenda of white Spaniards once he was captured, not the Aztec people who would become Mexicans.

So in conclusion, I'm not gonna vote for anybody just 'cause they black or Latino they have to truly represent the community and represent what's good for all of us proletariat.

Porque sino entonces te mando por el carajo cabron gusano hijo de puta, seramos libre pronto, viva la revolucion, VIVA LA REVOLUCION!

You are the Resistance - Resistance is Victory!

When The People take the battlefield, they begin to have victories. Here's just a few examples of recent victories-- both partial and whole-- from the campaign to Stop SOPA, to Ron Paul's 2012 campaign, the movement to remove dangerous chemicals from our food, water and vaccines, to the battle to stop the police state-- with many more victories to come in 2012. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton herself admitted that the big brother state was losing the Infowar. Ideas are bulletproof. Remember what Victor Hugo said: 'No army can stop an idea whose time has come.'

Resistance is victory! We should stand up, get involved and take action. The world is at a crossroad, noone can deny that tyranny is growing accross the globe.

• Anti-SOPA Movement - GoDaddy protest - 7000+ Websites blackout - strike.
• Movement all over the world is spreading.
• They try to shut down the true market and destroy our private property.
• Official vote against water fluoridation scheme from California to Florida's Pinellas County (a million residents), in Canada and Europe, major cities and towns are removing fluoride from water supply. BPA toxicity is starting to getting eliminated.
• Medical tyranny is on the run, dangerous high fructose corn syrup that can cause serious health problems is being removed.
• Studies shows that the more educated you are, the less chance you will vaccinate. Vaccinating is being denied by parents.
• Carbon Tax Agenda issue - Obama tried to shut down USA's energy suplies and move them to China. The scam of modern eviromentalism is in deep trouble.
• Dangerous General Electrics.
• Congressional approval at all-time low of 9 %.
• Mainstream media is dying, the alternative media is becoming the new media.

1. Congress ended its least-productive year in modern history after passing 80 bills - fewer than during any other session since year-end records began being kept in 1947.
2. Obama signed National Defense Authorization Act, however he says he doesn't even need NDAA to indefinitely detain Americans. They tried to denied it, they want to do it in secret, they are weak.
3. FEMA .
4. Americans buy record numbers of guns for christmas.
5. Banking Elite - Military - Elected Officials

We have ideas for the future, we have the ideas of freedom and liberty.
All of us have to speak up and be involved now like never before, we are having victories everytime we stand up and get involved, you have incredible power, that's why the tyrants always tell you that you are powerless, because the oppossite is true.
2012 is the year that the resistance goes to the next level! It is the beginning of the end of New World Order.



Global Awakening is upon us! You know this "ELITE"!

Remember Remember The 6th Of December - R.I.P. Alex

Three years have passed since Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15 year old boy was shot dead by a police officer in Athens, 6/12/2008...

The 2008 Greek riots started on 6 December 2008, when Alexandros Grigoropoulos (Greek: Αλέξανδρος Γρηγορόπουλος), a 15-year-old student, was killed by two policemen in Exarcheia district of central Athens. The murder of a young student by police resulted in large protests and demonstrations, which escalated to widespread rioting, with hundreds of rioters damaging property and engaging riot police with Molotov cocktails, stones and other objects. Demonstrations and rioting soon spread to several other cities, including Thessaloniki, the country's second-largest city.


"Here, on 6 December 2008, the smile of the innocent fifteen year old child Alexandros Grigoropoulos was extinguished completely unnecessarily by the bullets of unrepentant killers."
Outside Greece, solidarity demonstrations, riots and, in some cases, clashes with local police also took place in more than 70 cities around the world, including London, Paris, Brussels, Rome, Dublin, Berlin, Frankfurt, Madrid, Barcelona, Amsterdam, The Hague, Copenhagen, Bordeaux, Cologne, Seville as well as Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, and the western Cypriot city of Paphos. In cities far away from Athens, solidarity often was expressed as a peaceful informational protest, for example Sao Paulo, it proved that people could spread the news around the globe, from San Francisco to Wellington and Buenos Aires to Siberia.

While the unrest was triggered by the shooting incident, commentators described the reactions as expressing deeper causes as well, especially a widespread feeling of frustration in the younger generation about specific economic problems of the country (partly as a result of the global economic crisis), a rising unemployment rate among the young generation and a perception of general inefficiency and corruption in Greek state institutions.



Translation of "Γυρίζω τις πλάτες μου στο μέλλον" - "I'm turning my backside to the future"

I'm turning my backside to the future
the future you are shaping as you may
since history to you it's belonging
then if you do insist sweep it away

The promises completely filled my ears up
I've seen the play again don't drive me nuts
the ship of the dreams I have is sailing
to worlds you can't come you don't have the guts

In this present alone I'll be staying
try saving what I can save from your spree
I'll suffer all the legal consequences
accomplice to this murder I won't be

I'm turning my backside to the future
the trick is rigged and fitted to your measure
so cross me out from your long filthy records
I won't involve in your deeds and your leisure

I'm turning my backside to the future
the future you are shaping as you may
since history to you it's belonging
what are you waiting for? Sweep it away

In this present alone I'll be staying
try saving what I can save from your spree
I'll suffer all the legal consequences
accomplice to this murder I won't be

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