SERIES: THE POETRY OF JOHN ODEY ADUMA (FROM THE TREE BY THE RIVER)
The whole humanity now knows
You are wiser than your rider
Who without provocation head-butted you
In the glare of the Klieg lights.
And the whole wide world -
Even the world now knows
That you are more cultivated, cultured and civilized
Than your rider who without caring a hoot
Threw civility and decorum to the winds.
- JOHN ODEY ADUMA, SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
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The USA PATRIOT Act provides a textbook example of how the United States federal government expands its power. An emergency happens, legitimate or otherwise. The media, playing its dutiful role as goad for greater government oversight, demands "something must be done." Government power is massively expanded, with little regard for whether or not what is being done is efficacious, to say nothing of the overall impact on our nation's civil liberties.


