apj Jakarta-Based Legal Aid Foundation Report
Restaria Hutabarat said the group's report
found police beatings intimidation rape
are commonplace considered routine norm
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apj Indonesia’s Torturous Democracy?
Indonesia is a sprawling
archipelago nation
of 237 million people.
Indonesia emerged
from decades
of dictatorship
as recently as 1998.
Indonesia continues
to make
strides toward democracy...
however a weak
limp legal system
continues to be
a hot black spot.
torturing suspects
'the norm' in Indonesia
routine police perks
routine law enforcement
torture suspects convicts
extract corrupt confessions
“Indonesian law enforcers
routinely torture suspects
and convicts to extract
confessions or obtain
information... beatings,
intimidation and rape are
so commonplace they are
considered the norm.”
Jakarta-based Legal Aid Foundation Report
Restaria Hutabarat said the group's report
found police beatings intimidation rape
are commonplace considered routine norm
“few victims believe
they have the right
to lodge complaints”
police intimidation beatings raping suspects
few terrorized victims lodge complaints
Boy Rafli Amar will make changes if necessary
Indonesian National Police Spokesman Col. Boy Rafli Amar
said he would study
a 21-page legal report
would make changes
in the force if necessary.
Make changes in
the Police force
if necessary?
Beatings raping suspects
is not urgent grounds
for necessary changes?
Beatings raping
innocent people
is not a serious
crime when wearing
a badge of immunity?
Are police perks
more honourable
than paying a prostitute
in the world's
largest Islamic nation
a nation shamed?
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apj Indonesian National Police Spokesman Col. Boy Rafli Amar
police intimidation beatings raping suspects
few terrorized victims lodge complaints
Boy Rafli Amar to make changes if necessary
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apj Indonesias Police Perks
torturing suspects
'the norm' in Indonesia
routine police perks
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apj Indonesian Confession Technique
routine law enforcement
torture suspects convicts
extract corrupt confessions
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The Poet Junkie
I am the poet junkie
writing my fix
anytime of everyday
each sacrifice day
throughout daylight
throughout night
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Written in September 2010 on the 17.9.2010.
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Tune In
pulse transmit send
time radio waves
era age capsules
space signal bound
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Written in September 2010 on the 23.9.2010.
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The Mubarak Torture Regime
Thousands of WikiLeaks
released documents,
diplomatic cables from
2009 and 2010 from
the US embassy in Cairo.
Prove the Barak Obama
administration knew
a dictator Hosni Mubarak
regime held onto power
by terrorizing Egyptians.
US Ambassador Margaret
Scobey in a cable dated
January 15,2009. The letter
calls police brutality “routine
and pervasive” and states that
“police using force to extract
confessions from criminals [is]
a daily event.” A daily shame
written in blood screaming pain
“routine and pervasive” torture.
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Legendary Sirens Luring Sailors Onto Rocks
legendary
stories of sirens
luring sailors
to their deaths
on piercing rocks
consuming
their flesh brains
ancient adhellas
preying on men's
adventurous lives
plying
dark compelling spells
alluring enchanting arts
apparently sly prostitutes
in red light Jakarta's
inviting
fresh flesh markets
hospitality hostesses
hide trade secrets
hooking customers
enticing
hidden golden charms
implanted gold inserts
embedded golden flecks
beneath skin in their faces
witching
spells golden lures
of confidence flashes
plays customer's pockets
as prizes crash upon lusts
rising
juicy stormy passions
testosterone mounting beasts
sensory emotive floods
time locked before reason returns
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Written in September 2010 and April 2012 on the 17.9.2010&16.4.2012.
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An Omnipotent Omnipresent Omniscient God
no human being
can understand
what an omnipotent
omnipresent
omniscient
God is or can
do on a cosmic
scale or atomic
scale only God
can know
how any
individual
will act
in response
to conditions
of extreme
stress
hardships
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The original draft stream of consciousness source of this poem is ‘What Their Faith Will Prove To Be? : Stream Of Consciousness’.
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Tears Shed Still Flood The Earth
men were described as beasts
before an apocalyptic flood and after
before legendary Biblical flood and after
men no longer strut across landscape like giants
men crush landscape all obstacles into dust particles
men raise up great monuments giant skyscrapers into skies
men dominate landscapes all available resources earth sea skies
but tears still ever flood the earth shed by staring millions
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Written in September 2010 and April 2012 on the 17.9.2010&16.4.2012.
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The Truth Written Within Us
If God is truly within us as God claims?
Then truth written in our soul there retains?
The answer to life questions in our souls we may seek.
Deep within God wrote words of wisdom truth that speak.
How can we accept knowledge of what can be found there?
God gave our conscience to discern truth do not despair.
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Inspired by the poem ‘Quatrain #72 - Where do you look, dear friend....... ‘’ by George Krokos.
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Siren Singing
You would not
let me write.
You do not
support it.
You do not
understand it.
You would steal
time with moods
childish tantrums
endless cups of coffee
cigarettes smoked
like obsolete
steam train.
You would
be my chain and ball
I Prometheus Bound
heart eaten out
day and night
by craven
of cowling despair
siren singing
plied pity song
to founder
lost souls
upon destruction rocks
counting skeletons
former adventurers.
Who journeyed
upon odyssey
culminating
upon these fed
isle wreck shores
rib caged despair
broken dreams?
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Written in February 2010 on the 16.2.2010.
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What Their Faith Will Prove To Be?
We all lack
knowledge
of God.
Aspects
of God's
personality
are described
in the Bible.
We have
no idea
what your
knowledge
of God is
only God
can know
how any
individual
will act
in response
to conditions
of extreme
stress
what their
faith will
prove
to be
in such
situations
this is self
explanatory
therefore
why do
you interpret
personally?
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Proven Criminality Of Mubarak Terror Regime
“Thousands of WikiLeaks
released documents,
diplomatic cables from
2009 and 2010 from
the US embassy in Cairo.
Prove the Barak Obama
administration knew
a dictator Hosni Mubarak
regime held onto power
by terrorizing Egyptians.”
“US Ambassador Margaret
Scobey in a cable dated
January 15,2009. The letter
calls police brutality “routine
and pervasive” and states that
“police using force to extract
confessions from criminals [is]
a daily event.” A daily shame
written in blood screaming pain
“routine and pervasive” torture.”
Embassy informants “estimate
there are literally hundreds of
torture incidents every day in
Cairo police stations alone.”
Did you ever calculate the cost?
Credibility cost of supporting
a torture terror evil vile regime?
Did you never wonder why
Egypt's police are hated feared?
Loathed with justified intensity?
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British Conservative Government Provokes Punters
British conservative government rises to power
on band wagon promise to abolish university fees
now with stiff upper lip their punters are stiffed
betrayal is rabid 300 percent rise in university fees
a policy like giving new home owners a free front door
then smiling innocently as you steal their castle houses
bring down clowns as fraud squad removes government
real clowns are dedicated professionals aiming to please
putting in hundreds of hours of dedication to get act right
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Written in November 2010 on the 11.11.2010.
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A Child’s Toy
a whirl of sunshine and cup of blue
within a single line of poetry
our world becomes a spinning top
First prime line written by Miroslava Odalovic.
Title, second and third lines written by Terence George Craddock
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Donkey Love
The new the new the new
crowd’s bay
its great its wonderful its fab
crowds say.
Future fads
espouse condemnation
deny past
has been prophets.
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fad – short-lived fashion.
fab – as in fabulous.
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Wavelets Of Light
enlightened darkness an embryo upon the horizon
is the birth of light the breath
taking dawn with possibilities waking
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Inspired by the poem ‘You just have to go out’ by Miroslava Odalovic.
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Forests Of Growing Green Gold
living forests
touristic gold mines
if market mined
diverse flora fauna
sources of memories
seed imaginations
sold not once
as deforestation
but countless
times as living
life tapestries
creative webs
children of forests
bless all eyes all
hearts spirit seen
“weep child
the mighty totara
is (blade) fallen
no longer
forests thick
stretching
120 feet high
above life dense
canopy bird song
broad leaf trees
linear sharp
pointed leaves
(grew) dark
green-brownish
female totara
flowers red swollen
nut embedded”
who will
replant sacred
forests?
who will come
centuries on to
watch totara grow?
living sacred
ancient forest giants
were timber
sold when tourism
was life sustaining
growing green gold
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Quotation from ‘Land Rape Earth Rape’ by Terence George Craddock
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Where Truth Resides
demons base that throughout life hound
may often be considered false not fearful
when fears of false witness are cast aside
when one values opinions of honour integrity
what power can slander wield where truth resides
what strength of will determination reign may
when we release false feigns to their fallen abode
inner will compass set offers new horizons wide
destinies sails full resolute in conflict challenges
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Written in response to 'Tormented by Demons' by Kevin Carney.
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