White Collar Criminal [Song]

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WHITE COLLAR CRIMINAL
By Midnite
Lyrics copied with minor edits from Midnite's website.

Them is you lackey and you crony
Only from resistance you gonna know me
The shak out of the lion mane truly
Enough arrows of corn tree
In a furrows of country.

Yeah ay Yeah ay oh
White collar criminal
Blue collar Krishna
All your decimation inclination
You tek cali out a India [India]
The feminine emblem
Send the best cultivator
Steel metal paper worker
Giving up your culture for cancer [cancer]

Living their life on the arrogant tip
Put them on a just-can’t-turn-around trip
Living in a comfortable scavenger vibes
Mud don’t cause pig to feel sick
Everyday they must put on the clown face
So now them accustomed to playing tricks
I’m not riding along on your quicksand pace
I don’t feel at home in it.

White collar criminal
Blue collar Krishna
All your decimation inclination
You tek cali out a India [India]
The feminine emblem
Send the best cultivator
Steel metal paper worker
Giving up your culture for cancer.

Well, I don’t think you know 'bout
None of the two Ithiopia
Run go go King James your version
What’s the first verse in a Esther?

Try neva to witness a people
Disappear transaction in action yeah
Hail when the boardroom hit order come down
Silence is the usual chain reaction
All them searching for them bigger power
Over occupation rejection racial
Every corporate capo on foot in retreat
Who’s the next sacrificial?

White collar criminal aye
Blue collar Krishna
All your decimation inclination
You tek cali out a India [India]
The feminine emblem
Send I the best cultivator
Steel metal paper worker
Giving up your ganja for cancer
Giving up your culture for cancer [cancer]

Yeah from the whipping in the temple
These representing everlasting life
From the dripping ina blood sweat fees
Ganja hustle free a soul tonight aye
And who that rebuke my ease
Is a judgment sacrifice ahay ahay
Karma protection reduce that
Give the ride one more boost.

White collar criminal aye
Blue collar Krishna
All your decimation inclination
You tek cali out a India [India] yeah
The feminine emblem
Send I the best cultivator
Steel metal paper worker
You giving up your culture for cancer.

Hail, I don’t think you know 'bout
None of the two Ithiopia
Why run go go King James your version
What’s the first verse ina Esther aye wey aye wey aye

Them is you lackey and you crony
Only from resistance you know me
The shak out of the lion mane truly
Enough arrows of corn tree
In a furrows of country yeah

White collar criminal
Blue collar Krishna
All your decimation inclination
You tek cali out a India [India]
I don’t think you know 'bout
None of the two Ithiopia
Run go go King James your version
What’s the first verse ina Esther [Esther]
White-collar criminal
White-collar criminal
White-collar criminal
White-collar criminal

Source: Lyrics copied with minor edits from Midnite's website. ..............................................................................................................................


A Note From The Gull

Thank you, Midnite.

Living their life on the arrogant tip 

put them on a just-can’t-turn-around trip

Living in a comfortable, scavenger vibes, 

mud don’t cause pig to feel sick

Everyday they must put on the clown face 

so now them accustomed to playing tricks

I’m not riding along on your quicksand pace, 

I don’t feel at home in it.

The prophets have the patience to wait on a higher power, an ultimate judge to dispense justice:

26 For scoundrels are found among my people;

they take over the goods of others.

Like fowlers they set a trap; they catch human beings.

27 Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of treachery;

therefore they have become great and rich,

28 they have grown fat and sleek.

They know no limits in deeds of wickedness;

they do not judge with justice

the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper,

and they do not defend the rights of the needy.

29 Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord,

and shall I not bring retribution on a nation such as this?

30 An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:

31 the prophets prophesy falsely,

and the priests rule as the prophets direct;

my people love to have it so,

but what will you do when the end comes?

--Jeremiah 5 : 26-31

and when I read the stories about the day to day callous indifference and brutality, I understand why Jeremiah says, "my people love to have it so." What you allow those in power to do to you, is just more of what you have already been doing to each other. 

And on the topic of white collar criminals, has anyone given a second thought to the case of Trinbagonian, Desmond Pavy, convicted ganja trafficker and escaped convict recently extradited from his homeland to Saint Vincent where he was sentenced to nine years in prison. Yes, he broke the law, probably many laws, and he and his family are now paying a very high price, too high, some may say, but I couldn't help noticing how efficiently he was hunted and caught and punished while others are deliberately, DELIBERATELY protected and left unpunished. If only Desmond Pavy and his partners could have exported marijuana by wire transfer instead of pirogue. They would have been sitting pretty now. And isn't it funny how that extradition thing works for some and not for others? Isn't it funny also to think that marijuana will be legal one day and will make its government taxed debut on shelves alongside Johnnie Walker Blue and other mind and body altering substances but white collar crime will NEVER EVER be condoned by the law.

It's not that we are unique in these double standards. It's that I, eternally hopeful I, was hoping that we would be among those working towards intelligent "turn around". Early last month in the Irish Parliament, Labour TD, Michael McNamara introduced a new white collar crime bill entitled the Office of Fiscal Prosecution Act 2015 Bill "to investigate and prosecute corporate offences, which cost Irish citizens hundreds of millions of euros every year."  If we cannot lead, can we at least follow the good with as much determination as we follow the bad?

Mohanie Phakira, my heart broke for you and for your baby to think about the trauma that she had to endure in her short life and the eternal heartache with which you have been discharged instead of a living, prospering child in your arms. When you spoke, among other horrors, about the lack of such a simple thing as a wheelchair and I thought about the millions upon millions that have been siphoned away from this country's patrimony with not a thought for ordinary people...you had to wait hours to get a blasted wheelchair? Imagine the millions that will be spent on the upcoming election campaigns...millions spent on garbage PR, garbage trinkets and garbage talk and how many citizens' lives will be crumpled up and literally thrown out also like garbage.

"Steal a little and they throw you in jail

Steal a lot and they make you a king."

-- Bob Dylan in "Sweetheart like you."

"Some will rob you with a sixgun,

And some with a fountain pen."

--Woody Guthrie in "Pretty Boy Floyd"

"Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase
than a thousand men with guns and masks."

-Don Vito Corleone in "The Godfather".

It's my country's illusions I recall, I really, really don't know my country at all.

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare