The Fog Of Semantics

–saiom shriver-

Bulldoze ranforests
Slaughter a lamb

Swat a fly
Targets terminate

Thin a herd
Hunt a bear
Harvest a deer
Wasp nests exterminate

Pacify a village
Drone ‘terrorist’ camps
Weed a garden
Mice eliminate.

Mow a lawn
‘Cropdust’ a field
Fell a tree
‘Invasive species’ eradicate.

Execute a prisoner
‘Control burn’ a meadow
Scotch a dandelion
Foreign leaders serially assassinate.

Club a seal
Butcher a pig
Boil a living lobster.
Locusts decimate.

Harpoon a whale
A butterfly impale
Vivisect a rat
A fish asphyxiate.

Stone an adulterer
Puppies drown
Cows down
Gay men decapitate.

Starve a people
Strangle a goose
Dartgun a manta ray
Ants annihilate

Electroshock an inmate.
Rendition an ‘enemy’
Zap a dragonfly
By vaccination obliterate.

Fish ‘catch’ suffocate

Trim a bush

Squish a bug.

An adulteress lapidate*

Nuke Japan
Snuff the kittens
Polycidally bomb Iraq
A population liquidate.

Elephants poach

Squash a roach.

Prairie dogs dispatch

Bulls brand and castrate.

Ice a foe

drone a target

muzzle a child

a woman violate

An oyster shuck

Then shoot a duck

To torture is to ‘enhanced interrogate’

To kidnap is to ‘sequestrate’.

Trap a gopher

A butterfly impale

With waterboarding asphyxiate

In solitary men isolate

Masking words for kill..

meatmongers’ and

war propagandists’ skill.

“Euthanize” healthy dogs ..

their lives abbreviate.

Spray a beehive

prune a plum tree

With bombs immolate

The truth expurgate

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Note:

We all know the atrocities of Hitler. Fewer know that Churchill deliberately starved the Indian population of Bengal during WW2.

Jesse Ventura: Thou Shalt Not Kill is not asterisked with exceptions.

The US Dept of Agriculture and Dept of Interior often set ‘control burns’ which when the wind turns direction kill even more humans animals and plnats than intended.

*Lapidate… stone to death…punishmenet for adultresses but not adulterer

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