This post contains a multi-media slideshow, a poem on the environment.  The powerpoint can be downloaded at slavery. 

The poem follows.

 

Slavery

Management control.

Incarceration of the soul.

Subjugation of a people,

Conquered armies working in fields.

Plantation economy, wealth for the few,

Women in servitude, labor as fuel.

The exploitation of the innocent,

Chain gangs working in impoverishment,

A complex method of segregation:

Education, transportation, mastication, urination,

Exaggeration of differentiation,

Alienation from participation

In determination by the nation.

Nature is the latest victimization,

Forests, fauna, fish and fowl,

Destroyed by flames in the jungle tall,

Replaced by cattle, leaving a smoky pall,

Fisheries depleted, whales butchered,

Harbingers of the extinction of us all.

Oil, the long stored energy

Of the sun, increases productivity.

More wealth comes to the colonial nations,

Coal, gas, and nuclear machinations,

Victimizing future generations,

Spending our grandchildren’s inheritance,

Killing the goose that lays the golden

Egg doesn’t make any sense.

Now the planet and the future race

Have stepped into enslavement in the present case.

The mentality of exploitation

Of the many by the few,

The luxury and opulence of

The billiard table and the swimming pool,

Come from what we do to nature.

Peak oil is past, pesticides prevail, and

Everywhere is scientific nomenclature.

Chemistry, physics, biology, math,

But where is justice in the picture?

Justice for the weak and the oppressed,

Justice for the bear and elephant?

 

Does man really believe he looks like God,

And therefore can rip apart this sod

With nary any consequence,

His role in life sans recompense?

His actions taken without ruth,

His karmic trail devoid of truth?

Such a picture has no reality.

The Law of Karma is Supreme.

Our actions do have consequences,

Our future state on them depends.

Our imbalanced rate of consumption

Will catch up to us in destruction.

The ecosphere is our womb.

We tamper with it to our doom.

Enslavement is a mentality

Of sloth and greed, and irresponsibility.

Applied to humans today for sex,

A worldwide network for concubinal acts;

Applied to labor through a hypnotic lens,

An enslaved people it portends.

Liberation is a natural act,

An energetic fulfillment of a prophetic pact.

Nature will take her course in time.

Heed well this message in metered rhyme.

The queen will retake her usurped throne.

Like fleas on a dog’s back borne,

She’ll shake us off.

Woe be to those who at these words scoff.

6/11/07, 1:00 pm

Admiral’s House

Alameda, CA