In the UK, an 83 year old woman is arrested on terrorism charges for holding a sign saying 'I support Palestine Action.'  

If anything says how morally bankrupt our Government is, it is this.  Arresting pensioners for standing up to our Government who are complicit in war crimes. 

Today we are all the Reverend Sue Parfitt - this is what speaking truth to power looks like

The Revolution will not be sanitised

They came with boots polished,

Like truth had a curfew.

Like peace was a threat

And an 83-year-old woman

Holding a cardboard plaque

Was a ticking time bomb.

She said:

“This isn't the action of a democratic nation.”

And the blue lights flashed like

Tel Aviv approval ratings.

She said:  

“Why are we taking instructions from Israel?”

And suddenly the pavement got real hostile.

Suddenly the pensioner got profiled.

Suddenly the thought-crime got handcuffed.

No mask, no molotov,

Just wrinkles and righteous rage,

But the state said she was a terrorist

Because she refused to turn the page

On Gaza.

Refused to call complicity acceptable 

While children were executed in food queues 

Refused to be a good citizen

In a land where truth gets kettled

And dissent gets criminalised.

They say the revolution

Will be peaceful if you're polite.

They say the revolution

Will be televised if it flatters the white.

But the revolution will not be sanitised

For Ofcom or Starmer’s eyes.

It will not be funded by arms dealers

And lobbyist ties.

They locked her up

To protect the public from wisdom,

To make sure no grandmother

Teaches her grandkids

What democracy doesn’t look like.

Because a nation that fears

A woman with a placard

Is a nation that’s already lost the fight.

So sing it slow,

With a voice full of barbed wire and bassline,

Like Gil Scott Heron would,

With every syllable swinging

Like a truth-bomb jazz riff:

This ain't about law and order —

It’s about borders around thought.

It’s about protecting the killers

While the protestors get caught.

And you can cuff her hands,

But you can’t arrest the question.

You can cage her body,

But the can't erase the lesson.

Because if telling the truth is terrorism,
Then we’re all already guilty.

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