The Fourth Corner

Caught the tail end of a report from Burma on Four Corners (that's what real journalism is for those of you who work for ACA). Seeing how Chevron's subsidiary Unocal and the French company Tota'l are complicit in the slave labour forced upon Burmese civilians by their own military (including an anecdote of how a man and his 80 year old mother were both gunned down by soldiers as he fled into the jungle with her on his back) inspired the following: -

The Burmese pipeline made by the hand
(At the oil producing companies’ command)
Of those who the army enslaved
(So much money the shareholders saved)
The people cry out at the oppression
(Oil supply’s low we’re headed for recession)
At the murder and rape that compels their submission
(Make the economically rational decision)

Have we yet seen the weapons of mass destruction?
(Money to be made in Iraq’s reconstruction)
Has the war on terror yet found its mark?
(So much precious oil now secure in Iraq)
Are the Burmese folk not the victims of terror?
(Remember you must not admit to an error)
Wouldn’t this justify some intercession?
(Make the economically rational decision)

The western world is all to happy for distraction
(Marginalise those who advocate action)
As oil puts us on the fast road to hell
(As the share price goes up I advise you to sell)
Continually only the symptoms are treated
(Monopolise now with all opponents defeated)
As the planet slowly transforms ‘to a desert
(By only the profits is success to be measured)