Questions

If someone dies from an ILLEGAL chokehold

At the hands of the police,

Shouldn't the policeman responsible stand

Before a justice of the peace?

 

If a man is brought down by an illegal chokehold--

The use of excessive force--

Is that an act that we as Americans

Can rightfully endorse?

 

If the police suspected that you were selling

Untaxed cigarettes, too,

Do you think they'd also rough you up

And apply a chokehold on you?

 

Regarding the death of Eric Garner,

Was brutal force the cause,

Or was his death, as Rand Paul suggests,

Due to taxation laws?

 

If someone causes another's death

Does he deserve immunity?

Or better yet should he have

A license to kill with impunity?

 

Isn't it ironic that a man is killed

When stopped by the police for selling

Untaxed or unlicensed cigarettes--

Hardly that compelling!--

 

And yet there are hundreds of thousands of people

Who every year resist

Paying the appropriate taxes they owe,

And they get a slap on the wrist?

 

No country's perfect, but shouldn't we still

Seek a means whereby

We can perfect our current system?

Shouldn't we even try?

(12-4-14)