Sharpshooter - From Monument To Masses

Divided and conquered

We’ll rise and shine

Your orders have arrived

And while we were sleeping it off

We’ve been iron clad

Like the Merimac was

Hey sharpshooter, good shot!

It’s probably the worst instant human toll of any crime, and that may be true,

but there are terrorist crimes with effects a bit more drawn out that are much

more extreme.

Nevertheless it’s a historic event 'cause there was a change.

The change was the direction in which the guns were pointed.

During these

close to 200 years the United States expelled or mostly exterminated the

indigenous populations… however many people;

conquered half of Mexico,

carried out depredations all over the region, Central America, sometimes

beyond;

conquered Hawaii and the Philippines, killing several hundred thousand

Filipinos in the process;

since the Second World War it’s extended its reach

around the world in ways I don’t have to describe.

But it was always killing

someone else.

The fighting was somewhere else.

It was others getting

slaughtered, not here