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And I have heard it said (Simon de Montfort goes to Paradise)...
And I have heard it said…
And I have heard it said that it must come to pass,
IF, by killing and unleashing torrents of blood...
IF
By bombing and massacring
Women and children
With Shaheed drones and Khinsal hypersonic missiles
Massive Ordinance Penetrators
And other Bunker busters
Demolishing from the skies
In a cowardly and anonymous fashion
Thousands of kilometres away
(Per donas aucirre e per efans delir)
Over vast territories closely monitored by satellite
Whole neighbourhoods viable places to live
Schools hospitals gardens crowded streets
Markets teeming with life and laughter
Places of worship and community culture
All the old life of yore
Individuals birds pets
Young people and old grand-parents whole families
Second-hand cars paid for on monthly credit
Forever buried under the dust and broken concrete
Houses blocks of flats
Years spent getting up early and working hard
To live with dignity to bring up kids
By tightening our belts to pay for their education
Replacing travelling and eating out with PlayStations
And television
By practising prayer and fasting
By banning the wearing of shoes on vacation
(Per baros destruire e per Paratge aunir)
IF
By forever disfiguring the urban landscapes
Of the world's oldest capitals
And replacing them with casinos resorts
Gated communities
Giant yachts private jets
Trump Towers
Over-armed private security companies
Playgrounds for rich oligarchs
A flashy aesthetic for the rich and famous
With a trite universal philistinism
Worthy of a forgotten Peter Greenaway film
All in the name of a childish abstraction of misleading slogans
Brandished with impunity in the face of the world
(E per las terras toldre e per Orgolh suffrir)
IF
By tweeting and playing golf
By lying with the utmost conviction
The most shameless aplomb
To the point where lying becomes truth the unreal reality
The truth and the lie two sides of the same illusion
Of the same piece of monkey money
By governing with brash press releases
And reversible statements with nothing in them
And transforming government into an art of reality TV
While taking instructions behind the scenes
From the world's black money magnates
Who are glad to stay out of the limelight
Who are totally satisfied with
The wholesale programmed manipulation
Of the audience rate of mass distraction
Of the infantilisation and division of the population
Of the substitution of opinion for deliberation
Of the evasion of any real decision
While the governance of the world
Slips into the hands of flamboyant swindlers
Blackmailers and apprentice sorcerers preferably convicted
For electoral fraud and sexual assault
Who lack even the primary sense of honour of mafiosi
who will stop at no treason no crime against humanity
no genocide
no murder
no dirty tricks
To do their bidding
(E per mals cosselhs creire e per focs abrandir)
IF
By placing oneself above the common laws of humanity
By openly boasting of one’s misogynistic exploits
By reducing women in general and in particular
To the status of depersonalized fetish inane trophy
Outsourced from countries
Where the cultures of mass submission still reign
And a complacency typical of populations
Reduced to mercy crushed by history
By inserting oneself into cross-frontier pimping networks
To the point of selling and prostituting children
Under the guise of triumphantly vulgar beauty contests
Shady model recruitment agencies
Brassy charities and charity galas
To flaunt one’s ill-gotten billions
While at the same time
In fact participating in trafficking human beings
While scouring poor neighbourhoods and rogue states
And taking advantage of the growing inequality
With an arrogance smugness and pride
Not contemplated since feudal times
While making a virtue of incinerating en masse
Reproductive health materials
Medicines and survival food destined to countries
Where famine is rife
Playing the predator who believes himself so far above the law
That he doesn’t even see he’s getting his feet entangled
In his own culture of conspiracy
(E dins e. l gaug mirable heretar e florir)
IF
By outrageously rolling out the red carpet
On American soil
Before the greatest war monger
Under ICC arrest warrant
Of the 21st century
Actively sought for genocide crimes in 126 countries
And blatantly treating him as a close friend a guide to truth
A model of governance
A welcome ally
While counting on his support
Along with that of three more of the greatest mafiosi
And war criminals to be strutting on the planet today
To plead his cause before the Nobel Prize committee
By having the narrative walk on its head
Like never before in history
And by reversing the polarities of the magnetic field
Of all the signs of ethical and political progress
And granting absolute priority
To mass distraction the news cycle popularity polls
In the greatest operation of destabilisation
And semantic hijacking of all time
Making yesteryear's dystopias look pale in comparison
(E portar la corona e e. l regne sezir)
IF
By openly declaring war on the world's poor
By carrying out the biggest transfer of wealth
From the poor to the rich in the history of the world
By abolishing MEDICARE and SNAP for ELEVEN MILLION people
(While delaying its most visible effects
Until after the Mid-Term elections)
With a “Big Beautiful Bill” that signals the end of democracy
In America
And should rather be called
'Ugly, irresponsible, corrupt legislation,
Politically and morally indefensible,
Imposed only on the Nation
Thanks to a Mafia stranglehold on the majority
To please shareholders'
Against the public advice of the very people who voted for it
While attacking science and the best universities
With a masterpiece of perversity and bad faith
Of a dishonesty seldom heard-of in human history
(The accusation of anti-Semitism
By the world's worst purveyors of prejudice)
And by disinvesting in medicine
In favour of the delusions of conspiracy theorists
In a country where three-quarters of the population
Do not have the right to higher education
(Because school fees are too high)
By declaring war on the press and the media
By bringing medieval lawsuits to dissuade them
Through very strong indirect pressure invisible to the public
From any editorial autonomy
By making the government itself
Virtually the Director of Publication of all newspapers
And the Editor-in-Chief of all media
(Except the smallest and most fragile)
(Ni per esperitz perdre ni per mortz cosentir)
IF
By trivialising unheard-of mass crimes on a daily basis
Prefabricating and manipulating opinion
Bringing genocide and crimes of aggression back into the mainstream
To make the unacceptable acceptable
Normalize the abnormal
And moralize the immoral
By dispossessing legitimate governments
And persecuting their elected representatives
To justify invading so-called subaltern territories
And silencing free and dissenting voices (said to be ‘heretical’)
Subjugating entire populations
That are deemed to be reduced to vassalage or slavery
And that have previously been solemnly declared
‘Exposed as prey’
By legal and religious authorities
Thus formalising state gangsterism on a massive scale
Financing subversion division and terrorism
Proxy wars and assassinations
Arrogance enrichment and insolent ostentation
Promoted on every screen
Of Mankind’s current alienation
Attacking NGOs and international organisations
And Human rights bodies
Patiently built up over decades of struggle
The International Criminal Court
Real journalists and reporters
Who are trying to report on this to maintain
A semblance of reason a capacity for revolt
For objectivity and indignation
A faculty of anger that rouses assemblies
From which may be born a new generation
Of fearless and uncompromising orators
That the media would finally be allowed to reverberate
(Ni per esperitz perdre ni per mortz cosentir)
IF
By calling the climate crisis a “hoax”
Plotted by “Marxists” and “mentally deranged Leftists”
By taking over the Environmental Protection Agency
And sacking National Park employees en masse
By accusing them of causing
Devastating tornadoes Climate disasters
Solely for political purposes
By storming out of the Paris Treaty
Repealing greenhouse gas emission legislation
Repealing federal mercury pollution legislation
Suspending all new wind turbine projects by executive order
Repealing air quality criteria
Challenging regulations against
PFAS in drinking water
Allowing DOI to circumvent
Ecological monitoring procedures
By prohibiting the Securities and Exchange Commission
From reporting pollution risks
From publicly traded companies
By repealing protection for endangered species
And migratory birds in particular
By granting drilling licences for shale gas
In Yellowstone and Alaska National Parks
By Restoring the right of way for the Dakota gas pipeline
On sacred Amerindian lands
By once again allowing the transport of LNG by rail
By calling into question the thresholds for ozone emissions
By continuing to backtrack on the implementation
Of the bans on pesticides and chemical fertilisers
(Qu'el es sans ez es martirs e que deu resperir)
IF
By selling counterfeit Bibles
Golden-hued baseball sneakers Junk deodorant
For tiktokeurs hung up on masculinity
By promoting the world-wide tax-free sale of bitcoins
On behalf of World Liberty Finance
With anyone taking out over a million dollar investment
Entitled to being invited to a private lunch
With the President of the United States himself
To discuss face-to-face the possible interests
Of one’s mining company one’s church one’s association
Of nefarious property developers
Of backroom influencers
Of prosperity evangelists
Of televangelists in sexy skirts
Of purveyors of dirty money
Seeking safe havens for money laundering
To secure a deal to deliver weapons sales
Lethal for civilian populations all over the world
Or to influence government policy
By nurturing and being an accomplice
To the resurgence of the worst lies
The worst incitements to hatred
To conspiracy and genocide
In all of human History
By no longer reneging on the ultimate degree
Of triumphant cynicism
On any exploitation of scandal on any crime
On any transgression any desecration of human life
Any immoral and unnatural assault on decency
As long as it achieves its extortionate ends
And succeeds in global racketeering
(Even if they end up turning against themselves:
Qu'el ez sans e martirs e que deu resperir)
IF
While protesting his good heart his purple scandalized heart
Totally outraged and torn apart
At the insane loss of human life at the madness of nuclear power
The holocaust of young men's lives
Which risks setting the world ablaze
Decimating the superior classes and races
And calling into question the return of masculinism
Above all personally killing the elites themselves in their palaces
And the luxury survival bunkers
Where they live in turpitude
Their cryogenics chambers their over-equipped gyms
Their brains uploaded into the cloud
Their return to the most literal Religion
Their flight from reality their End-Times their Armageddon
Their mad anguish about the Apocalypse
Their ketamine-fuelled libertarian individual sovereignties
Their super-yachts and private jets
Because of the ever more demonic threat and ultra-precision
Of satellite-controlled intercontinental ballistic missiles
When all that is at stake is the relative decline
Of all-powerful wild-cat Capitalism
And some form of return to collective sanity
(E per los mals escendre e per bes escantir)
IF
In view of the “scandalous waste” (of potential investment
In real estate)
Which the budget of the military-industrial sector represents
And the imperative need to simultaneously lower taxes
For shareholders hungry for profit-margins
While keeping electoral promises made to extraction firms
Polluters and oil companies
Tax emigrants united
From all countries around the world
And other offshore money launderers
By attacking judges courts law firms
Trade unions scientists academics the media
Redistribution and welfare bureaucracies
While sending the police ICE and the marines
Into the pulsating heart of major cities
Against illegal immigrants defectors stowaways
Deviants dissidents artists women
Victims of dictatorships everywhere
Without whom the economy would not even function
(Pot hom en aquest segle Jhesu Crist comquerir)
IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF IF
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All the above could lead on to the heaven of one Nobel Peace Prize
By decreeing himself the greatest warrior of Lies
He’s a saint and a martyr who’ll be raised from the dead
And in wondrous joy forever flower and spread
Until the crown of heaven descend on his head
(El deu portar corona e e e.l cel resplandir
Qu'el es sans ez es martirs e que deu resperir
E dins e.l gaug mirable heretar e florir).
[Canso de la Crosada, part of the Anonymous, laisse 208, v. 3-15]
