Truckernomics
columnist: Billy Joe

Topic: U.S. History
Sympathy for Texas

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The kidnapping of over 400 children by the state of Texas at the Yearning for Zion Ranch is part of a long tradition.

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by Billy Joe
(Libertarian)
Saturday, June 14, 2008

Please allow me to introduce myself.

I am a man who works for the state.

I've been around for a long, long time

Filled many a man's heart with hate.

I was around when Judge Roy Bean

Built the courthouse behind his saloon.

"Hang ‘em, first, try ‘em, later!"

Said the Judge as he turned to his spittoon.

Please to meet you!

Hope you guess my name

Is what's troubling you,

The nature of my game?

Stuck around the penitentiary

When Old Sparky was jacked into the wall

Three Hundred Sixty One final debts paid

Before I started swabbin' arms with alcohol.

I held the flank of the ATF tank

When the children's screams stopped

And all Waco stank

Please to meet you!

Hope you guess my name.

Ah, what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game.

I watched with glee on my big screen TV

As the talking heads

At the gruesome scene

Asked "Who killed the Davidians?"

When, after all, it was you and me.

Let me please introduce myself

I am a man who works for the state.

I provide you security

When I take all your freedom away.

Just as every cop is a criminal
in all the Lone Star State
As heads is tails
Just call me Government

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Published: Saturday, June 14, 2008
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