Power accedes to no demand
It only recognizes force
Unchecked to constantly expand
Exploit, entrench, and reinforce
The resources at its command
To commandeer all life’s resource
The preeminence of the brand
From hard reality divorce
Balance demands a steady hand
To slow this detrimental course
Corruption calls for reprimand
Remuneration and remorse
To seek the truth, to understand
To help expand human discourse
Reveal corruptions where they stand
Is journalism at its source
Faced with loss of livelihood
Reporters will cower
Journalists serve greater good
Speaking truth to power
Forward comes the journalist
Presenting facts as they exist
All the tools which they enlist
Against pushback they persist
As our social catalyst
Their efforts we must all assist
On inside scoops they must subsist
Of hidden knowledge they consist
As a people we must all insist
Assange’s charges must be dismissed
Faced with scorn from FCC
The official glower
Journalism’s only free
Speaking truth to power
How is committing murder legal
Yet it is a crime to reveal it
How is torture accepted as just
When legal systems just deal it
How long can our freedom last
When the lies of rule repeal it
As we kill off the speakers of truth
The lie will be truth as they spiel it
The official line is drawn
In blood no one can scour
Until the last of us is gone
We’ll be speaking truth to power
Assange not Pentagon
With war crimes by the hour
Until all of them are gone
We are speaking truth to power
© 12/23/21 ArtAHammer
Arturo Hammer
For Julian Assange
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