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Headline: The Stansted 15 Found Guilty!

12/30/2018

 

The Court relayed its verdict,
    The “Home Office” must rule— 
Theresa May has got her way
    In meting treatment cruel.

In March fifteen protesters
    By conscience driven held
A plane upon the tarmac
    And its delay compelled— 

A plane en route to carry
    In brutal, secret flight
Its cargo—“human garbage”
    Within the dead of night

Back to their “shithole countries”
    Where persecution, death
Must greet them: scarcely legal
    Rogue auspices beneath.

The protesters were sentenced
    As “terrorists,” who had
But acted out of goodness
    Decried as something bad.

The Court relayed its verdict— 
    The Stansted 15 falls!
Theresa May has won her day,
    Her “Home Office” shown false.

From March until December
    The “Rule of Law” was shown
To be a bag of posture,
    Trumped charges being thrown:

“Endangering an airdrome,”
    The message being clear,
“If you would heed your conscience
    ’Tis better to heed fear.”

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