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Jericho<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by Pete Godfrey<\/em><\/p>\n On a scraggy patch of land we stake our claim – that the courts of justice are courts of disgrace Emma Arbuthnot, Vanessa Baraitser, for the man, distressed, who\u2019s in the dock, those troops in thrall to Washington\u2019s command how in the Middle East (and elsewhere) lives which is why we\u2019re here, Julian, outside the walls, of warmongers whose murderous strategy at the outrage perpetrated yards from where they pass. Jericho by Pete Godfrey On a scraggy patch of land we stake our claim –this country\u2019s ours, not terrain of the owners –and string up banners, raise…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":15424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2783],"class_list":["post-15427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-julian-assange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
this country\u2019s ours, not terrain of the owners –
and string up banners, raise placards that name
a wrong so grievous it has shown us<\/p>\n
with judges so corrupt they take their cue
from whispered briefings designed to erase
all sense of fairness – take a bow, yes you,<\/p>\n
bewigged and wooden, reeling off your lines,
automatons, the bosses\u2019 howitzer
without a flicker of what\u2019s warm or kind<\/p>\n
ten times superior to you, fighter for peace
who dared reveal just how the trigger\u2019s cocked
to take out inconvenient souls as they may please –<\/p>\n
who\u2019ve trashed Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq,
caused conflagrations, massacres – Assange
alone has cast a light on that:<\/p>\n
have been deemed worthless, mere impediments
to looting land, oil, treasure, and the cries
of those who wish to blossom meet indifference<\/p>\n
concrete and drab, that hold you in
and try to imprison the ideas that call
out to humanity, look beneath the skin<\/p>\n
lies grotesque and exposed, arrayed in blood.
The lights turn red – we leaflet, dash to see
if motorists will share in our disgust<\/p>\n
They sound their horns; the criminals\u2019 names we shout –
Blair, Cameron, Patel and Johnson for a start.
And look: the walls are cardboard – push them now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"