<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399735" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The state within the state</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Black cars with flashing blue lights<br>come screaming down the highway<br>filling three lanes at a time, <br>as if any road in the country<br>belongs to them.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sometimes I see their occupants <br>on the street, <br>hiding behind sunglasses, <br>with short cropped hair, <br>dressed in neat suits<br>with left armpits bulging<br>from the guns<br>that they wear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They invade uninvited<br>in the early hours of the morning<br>and burst into dwellings unexpectedly<br>with drawn guns<br>as the method of persuasion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some people are arrested, <br>taken away to interrogation<br>and face charges in court, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">others are abducted, cuffed, <br>transported to a military airfield<br>to board a foreign aircraft<br>with stars and stripes on its tail, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">to be deported and disappear <br>from the face of the earth, <br>without a trace and without a trial<br>and never to be free again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399735" data-title="The state within the state de Gert Strydom" data-description="Black cars with flashing blue lights come screaming down the highway filling three lanes at a time, as if any road in the country belongs to them. Sometimes I see their occupants on the street, hiding behind sunglasses, with short cropped hai..."></div> </div> </div>

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