With a little help from the Birdman
"Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz
OKs torture in USA"--Jan 2002 news item
Please torture Dershowitz, not me --
I'll tell you all I know
Of freedom-hating terrorists
And poisoned H2O.
Here's what I'll say without delay
So you can skip the rack
No shock machines: I'll spill the beans
And never answer back.
I'll finger all conspirators
Turn in my mom and fadda
I'll even point my finger joint
At Alan of al Q'adda.
For might this guy be but a spy?
Is Al our source of trouble?
Could Harvard's hunk be but a skunk
That turned the Tow'rs to rubble?
At first I'm sure he'll claim he's pure,
But truth's not far to seek:
It soon will come right from his lips
Between each curdling shreek!
How long do you suppose it takes
A man whose balls are fryin'
To fess up to the Holocaust
Or Protocols of Zion?
The Inquisition was no peer
For Mossad and Shin Bet
Who've now refined and redesigned
The treatment young Pals get.
So torture Dershowitz, not me;
I choke upon such diet;
And if the Dersh loves torture so
Let him be first to try it!
--Tom Paine
--US Patriot
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