One Nation Under the Iron Fist of God

"No one escapes, Winston. There are no martyrs here. All the confessions made here are true. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us. As long as he resists us, we never destroy him. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. We make his brain perfect bеfore we blow it out. And then... Whеn there is nothing left but sorrow and love of Big Brother... We shall lift you clean out of history. We shall turn you into gas and pour you into the stratosphere. Nothing will remain of you. Not a name in a register. Not a memory in a living brain. You will be annihilated in the past, as well as in the future."

Submitted by MetalElf — Feb 09, 2026

From the age of the thought police- greetings From the age of big brother- greetings From the age of newspeak- greetings Welcome to the age of continuous warfare We are the free; we are the peaceful They’re the aggressors and they are the hateful Who are they? We’re defending democracy; we’re protecting our borders They resent freedom and they utilize terror Who are they? They lurk in the shadows Endlessly plotting to destroy our very way of life If you do what we say then everything will be fine We will protect you as we live in the age of Faceless Nameless Endless War Who controls the past controls the future Who controls the present controls the past We have that control You submit to authority when you’re residing in fear So don’t ever question and don’t you dare criticize Don’t believe what you see, just accept what you hear It’s in your best interest that your knowledge is purged It’s a beautiful thing the destruction of words War is peace Freedom is slavery Ignorance is strength It’s a beautiful thing the destruction of words Once we control what’s spoken we’ll see no more dissention Just politicized images to skew your perception You can’t trust your own judgment; you can’t trust yourselves So we will protect you from yourselves We will protect you; we will protect you You are a threat to yourselves So we will protect you You are a threat to yourselves So we will protect you It doesn’t matter if victory is possible This war is not meant to be won It is meant to be continuous And that’s only possible on the basis of ignorance The most practical way to keep our power structure intact Is to keep society on the brink of starvation So we, as the ruling class, will maintain our power By waging war against our own population We will break you; we will break you Keep your dissent to yourselves Or we will break you Keep your dissent to yourselves Or we will break you Here comes a candle to light you to bed Here comes a chopper to chop off your head From the age of the thought police- beware From the age of big brother- beware From the age of newspeak-beware Beware of the motive in continuous warfare You may think we are free; you may think we are peaceful But we’re the aggressors and we are the hateful Who are we? We dismantle democracy; we invade others borders We repress freedom and we utilize terror Who are we? We’ll drive you into the shadows Forever destroying your very way of life If you’re not on our side then you’ll be in our sights There’s no neutrality in our “war on terror” We are the enemy; we are the enemy Take a good look at ourselves Because we are the enemy Take a good look at ourselves Because we are the enemy

Submitted by VladTheImpaler666 — Apr 26, 2025

We’ve annihilated a nation now the retribution begins Each day claims a life and a half dozen limbs Violent backlash The postwar fallout has turned into a bloodbath Occupation not liberation Nation building has been paved over by desperation Trapped in this quagmire American brutality throwing fuel on the fire A sea of blood floods the occupied land While the village idiot plays war in the sand In the presidential sandbox he’s out of harms way Protected by the privilege that allows him to play That’s shielded him from danger and still hides his desertion And demands that those less privileged shoulder his burden He’ll sacrifice your life to provide his with privilege Using his little toy soldiers as political leverage He’s got his bombs in the air and his pawns in a row And thousands of broken toys buried six feet below Retribution His ignorant arrogance is being paid for with lives Of the thousands of soldiers who fell for his lies He’s annihilated a nation now the retribution begins Each day claims a life and a half dozen limbs He’s sown the seeds for more hate and distrust He’s justified their contempt for us “The Christian Crusader” taking on the gutter religion In the name of god he’s murdered their children He’s a warmongering coward who’s got blood on his hands He sent his toys thousands of miles to draw a line in the sand Now there’s thousands of lines all illustrated in chalk Slaughtered an maimed in what they were told would be a cakewalk Retribution His ignorant arrogance is being paid for with lives Of the thousands of soldiers who fell for his lies He’s annihilated a nation now the retribution begins Each day claims a life and a half dozen limbs He claims to be fighting the war against terror and winning But we haven’t seen anything yet this is just the beginning He invaded their land for alleged terrorist involvement Now that land’s become a breeding ground for actual recruitment Where they’re kidnapping foreigners and cutting off heads This is the extremism that our brutality’s bred This is Bush’s idea of making us safer Escalating the violence and inviting more danger Our presence in the Middle East will always be resented and hated Those occupied aren’t so easily placated They see first hand the brutality and abuse They don’t have the situation spoon-fed to them by corporate news They hear the cries of their children after we’ve severed their limbs They see American soldiers torturing and killing civilians How do we apologize to these children that we mutilated in error? If we had to look in their eyes would we be able to look in the mirror? Retribution His ignorant arrogance is being paid for with lives Of the thousands of soldiers who fell for his lies He’s annihilated a nation now the retribution begins Each day claims a life and a half dozen limbs

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

We’re all feeding the gluttons of privilege As they rewrite the labor laws to subjugate the poor We’re all feeding the gluttons of privilege By serving our lords on the factory floor We’re all feeding the gluttons of privilege Shouldering the tax breaks for the politically affluent We’re all feeding the gluttons of privilege Setting the groundwork for our own social displacement Privilege: the birthright of the ruling class Lavished in luxury (is never enough) with more to amass Social conscience takes a backseat to profit And their trickle-down policies (are never enough) never emit The elite stuff themselves like pigs at the trough While the scraps from their tables (are never enough) are tapering off If you’re born at the bottom life can be tough But when you’re on top of the world then it’s never enough We’re all feeding the gluttons of privilege As we take another step closer towards privatization We’re all feeding the gluttons of privilege Blinded by the daily grind we miss the correlation We’re all feeding the gluttons of privilege Lay off millions of workers to increase the stock market average We’re all feeding the gluttons of privilege As they slaughter the workforce and dine on the carnage Privilege: the birthright of the ruling class Lavished in luxury (is never enough) with more to amass Social conscience takes a backseat to profit And their trickle-down policies (are never enough) never emit The elite stuff themselves like pigs at the trough While the scraps from their tables (are never enough) are tapering off If you’re born at the bottom life can be tough But when you’re on top of the world then it’s never enough Opening their checkbooks, buying and selling lives Human dignity is sacrificed but the status quo survives Stepping on the poor to lift profit margins higher Gutting social programs to build empire after empire Bow down to the industrialists as opportunities falter Standing on the ruins of those buried by the dollar They insure that our standard of living will continue depleting Because an unemployed workforce keeps the masses competing We’re all feeding the gluttons of privilege As they export the job market with cut-throat ambition We’re all feeding the gluttons of privilege We’re baited in the retrace by this classist tradition We’re all feeding the gluttons of privilege We’re lost in the debris of a global plutocracy We’re all feeding the gluttons of privilege Because we’re all scavengers of a trickle-down economy Privilege: the birthright of the ruling class Lavished in luxury (is never enough) with more to amass Social conscience takes a backseat to profit And their trickle-down policies (are never enough) never emit The elite stuff themselves like pigs at the trough While the scraps from their tables (are never enough) are tapering off If you’re born at the bottom life can be tough But when you’re on top of the world then it’s never enough

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

Use your euphemisms but the reality remains This is still genocide by any other name Too much agony and bloodshed for the perpetrators to hide Too much apathy and bloodlust for us to justify Too much western world indifference to keep this savagery at bay Too much need for intervention to just look the other way For the refugees of Darfur The end result looks bleak Our never ending evasion Their end without relief We sit and debate while the militias bathe in blood The first world has forsaken all of those who died Brutalized by bigotry, abandoned by the world We have turned a blind eye to genocide Not enough tolerance, attention or humanitarian aid Not enough of an outcry to stop the bludgeoning with the blade Not enough compassion to combat all of this despair Not enough resources to be plundered for the western world to care Atrocities committed The machete swings again As our population thinks Their population thins We sit and debate while the militias bathe in blood The first world has forsaken all of those who died Brutalized by bigotry, abandoned by the world We have turned a blind eye to genocide They plead We look the other way They bleed We look the other way They die and we just look the other way Can’t we utilize more than empty rhetoric? can’t we do more than pretend? Can’t we show some real conviction when we say “never again”? Can’t we see where this is heading? Can’t we see what is at stake? Can’t we ever learn our lesson and not repeat our past mistakes? They pay with their lives We pay them no attention We bury our heads in the sand As they bury their children We sit and debate while the militias bathe in blood The first world has forsaken all of those who died Brutalized by bigotry, abandoned by the world We have turned a blind eye to genocide

Pounded by the hurricane but finished off by the government Trapped in Katrina’s aftermath by George’s emergency management Stranded on the rooftops are the people left for dead Waving franticly to their leader, who’s flying safely overhead He’s been too busy raising money for his own political gain To throw the city a lifeline when it’s sinking down the drain So the supplies supposedly on route meet another inexplicable delay The rising tide of bureaucracy has washed all hope away Flooded with bureaucracy Flooded with the lies Flooded with excuses as the political damage starts to rise Wading through the politics Wading through the culpable Wading through the talking points that defend those most responsible Submerged under the failure Submerged under inaction Submerged under the photo-ops staged as a distraction Drowned by the incompetence Drowned by the indifference Drowned by the government’s undisputable negligence The backdrop is erected and the cameras relay the determination Of a battered incompetent president looking to stop the devastation Not for the victims but for his own declining ratings So he parades his presence in front of the nation to initiate the rebuilding Not of New Orleans but solely for his image It’s only his agenda that he really wants to salvage Empty promises of endless resources, his absence rationalized He flies in for his photo-op and afterwards his commitment subsides Flooded with bureaucracy Flooded with the lies Flooded with excuses as the political damage starts to rise Wading through the politics Wading through the culpable Wading through the talking points that defend those most responsible Submerged under the failure Submerged under inaction Submerged under the photo-ops staged as a distraction Drowned by the incompetence Drowned by the indifference Drowned by the government’s undisputable negligence If you are poor It’s time to sink or swim If you are black It’s time to sink or swim Those people were forgotten Those people were stranded Those people were betrayed Those people were abandoned He promised to protect the people but he’s abandoned them instead In terms of Bush’s legacy what’s another thousand dead? He rounded up the National Guard to defend American interests in Iraq When he can’t even defend this country against a hurricane’s attack He embraces cronyism and surrounds himself with friends The unqualified allies that he installed are the only people he defends A pat on the back for Chertoff and words of praise for Brown As they all stood idly by and watched an entire city drown Flooded with bureaucracy Flooded with the lies Flooded with excuses as the political damage starts to rise Wading through the politics Wading through the culpable Wading through the talking points that defend those most responsible Submerged under the failure Submerged under inaction Submerged under the photo-ops staged as a distraction Drowned by the incompetence Drowned by the indifference Drowned by the government’s undisputable negligence

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

With the city in ruins it’s plunged into chaos A means of survival or just looting and theft The National Guard have been given the order By any means necessary- protect what’s left Shoot to kill In the wake of the storm they criminalize the survivors Impose martial law to stop the moral declining Leave the looting to the rich and powerful Because for them every cloud has a silver lining Shoot- shoot- disaster exploiters Shoot- shoot- crisis profiteers Shoot- shoot- take no prisoners Shoot- shoot- shoot the looters More diamond mines for Pat Robertson’s empire With Operation Blessing’s donation collecting More no-bid contracts for Halliburton Inflating their prices with Federal protecting Shoot- shoot- crony contractors Shoot- shoot- religious extorters Shoot- shoot- take no prisoners Shoot- shoot- shoot the looters They line their pockets from human suffering They pick the pockets of compassionate giving Shoot to kill Along with the misery and heartache Come the bloodsucking parasites that are looking to gain Cashing in on the victim’s despair Siphoning funding, fueling more pain Shoot- shoot- self-serving consumers Shoot- shoot- humanitarian imposters Shoot- shoot- take no prisoners Shoot- shoot- shoot the looters

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

America has been conquered by a fundamentalist crusade That holds god above our heads to keep the masses afraid We’ve surrendered sensibility to a morbid spirituality Shackled by what passes as Christian morality Opening the bible for justification to close millions of minds Beating back evolution with “Intelligent Design” Displaying the flag, side by side, with the crucifix To sanctify the marriage of religion with politics In an effort to shield conservatives from a political loss Jesus, himself, has climbed down from his cross And while he’s warmly embraced at the GOP’s political rallies His enemies have been banished to the closets and back alleys Forever cast out by the “party of inclusion” That triumphs in the nation that suffers from delusion Constructing god’s church on a foundation of oppression Dragging our society down the pathway of regression Independent thought has been stamped out by indoctrinated opinion We’ve descended into the depravity of this gutter religion Christianity infects America like a spiritual plague Spreading putrid intolerance with their “moral” tirades They try to whitewash their hypocrisy with more insidious lies But in the ethical gutter is where their morality resides Get down on your knees if you want to exist Ignorant superstition Bigoted tradition Because god rules this country with an iron fist Indoctrinated opinion Gutter religion Zealotry is summoning god’s vengeance for threatening voters With the fires of hell and natural disasters Parting the political waters for the conservative ideologues God has granted sole authority to his moral watchdogs There will be no mercy for those who resist Ignorant superstition Bigoted tradition Because god rules this country with an iron fist Indoctrinated opinion Gutter religion Rule of law- under the iron fist Sexual preference- under the iron fist Women’s rights- under the iron fist Indoctrination under the iron fist of god Education- under the iron fist Social funding- under the iron fist Science and medicine- under the iron fist One nation under the iron fist of god Polluting the fields of education, science and medicine Corrupting the FDA to deny access to emergency contraception Criminalizing all facts and theories that contradicts the bible Because when the truth discredits religion it becomes undesirable Put on a pedestal by the right-wing extremist Ignorant superstition Bigoted tradition Because god rules this country with an iron fist Indoctrinated opinion Gutter religion God has become obsessed with turning back the tide of progress Erecting Christian dogma over a snuffed out social conscience Our nation pledges allegiance to a divine abomination That drags us in the gutter to bask in moral degradation

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

Apocalyptic policies That neglect the environment and diminish the future Because the zealots in power Those ruling are ruled by their faith in the scriptures When the environment takes a backseat to religion Are they serving our interests or just succumbing to fiction? There’s no more hope for our future when we’re governed by fear Of the political holy men who believe the end is near This is the end The end is here We’re all dead Governed by fear Fear of the end Environmental eclipse We’re already dead Governing for the apocalypse Their distain for this world Is obvious in the content of their environmental laws They never hear the cries of nature Which are drowned out by the sound of corporate applause They don’t seem to realize what’s really at stake They can’t see the forest for the trees when they’re blinded by faith They can’t comprehend how much their policies are flawed When they’re busy groveling, down on their knees, before god This is the end The end is here We’re all dead Governed by fear Fear of the end Environmental eclipse We’re already dead Governing for the apocalypse The second coming is coming So there’s really no need to take care of the earth They just live for today And bleed the planet for all that it’s worth But do they live for today or are they living for death? Do they really feel god breathing down the back of their necks? It’s their faith in the end that we’ll all live to regret When our children inherit the wasteland that’s left This is the end The end is here We’re all dead Governed by fear Fear of the end Environmental eclipse We’re already dead Governing for the apocalypse

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

The sharks start to circle when they smell blood in the water The viewers tune in to watch the unfortunate suffer Bombarded with a never ending scourge of destruction Seduced my the media’s macabre illustration We have front row seats for the televised slaughter Anxiously feeding on what the news has to offer Satisfying our morbid curiosity for human tragedy Consumed by the media feeding frenzy If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds Blood attracts the media to the feeding frenzy We’ve become a nation of ghoulish blood-lusting addicts Bewitched by the drama of Hollywood-style theatrics The right lighting and music create the dire sense of urgency Where every single segment is an absolute emergency We’ve become numb to the violence through sheer repetition It takes more and more gore to secure our attention More gruesome descriptions, more graphic desecratings By all of the networks competing for ratings If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds Blood attracts the media to the feeding frenzy School shooting- the media feeds Child abduction- the media feeds Gang slaying- the media feeds Terrorist bombing- the media feeds We’re so easily enticed by the corporate blood-soaked approach We resent what we see but we can’t help to watch So what are the long-term effects on our society? What is the result of all this spoon-fed anxiety? Instilled fear, hysteria and panic attacks A nation’s emotional state on the verge of collapse Too terrified to venture out in the world our TV depicts So just lock your door and stay tuned to get your next fix If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds If it bleeds it leads-and the media feeds Blood attracts the media to the feeding frenzy

Submitted by Finntroll — Apr 26, 2025

Here in the first world we live our lives With no concern for others and no regrets We keep the third world dependent upon us Submissive and docile and in our debt We wear the smile of the humanitarian As we call for their subversion under our breath We pledge our assistance while we covet their resources Because our standard of living demands their death We ride on the backs of brutal dictators We fuel our economy with third world blood We gorge ourselves on the spoils of cash crops We fuel our economy with third world blood We fill our gas tanks with stolen oil We fuel our economy with third world blood We take what we want under the threat of war We fuel our economy with third world blood We annex their land, we bleed them dry We repress their wages and keep them working for shit We align ourselves with the oppressive regimes Who see to it that their people submit We line our pockets from slave labor The age-old industry of economic oppression Has made us the richest country on earth Because our wealth demands their exploitation We ride on the backs of brutal dictators We fuel our economy with third world blood We gorge ourselves on the spoils of cash crops We fuel our economy with third world blood We fill our gas tanks with stolen oil We fuel our economy with third world blood We take what we want under the threat of war We fuel our economy with third world blood Without any American interference They would have the possibility for a better existence Safe from the looting of the capitalist empire Because their survival demands our absence We mold the market, we manipulate trade We create the conditions for our own benefit That’s the reality behind our third world interest Because our involvement demands a profit We ride on the backs of brutal dictators We fuel our economy with third world blood We gorge ourselves on the spoils of cash crops We fuel our economy with third world blood We fill our gas tanks with stolen oil We fuel our economy with third world blood We take what we want under the threat of war We fuel our economy with third world blood

Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Apr 26, 2025

Bow down to the demagogues They gain their power when they prey on your fears Bow down to the demagogues They keep their control by feeding your bigotry Bow down to the demagogues They keep you safe by denying you freedom Bow down to the demagogues They intimidate to discourage dissent When fascism comes to America It will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross As fascism takes root in America It is welcomed by the sound of thunderous applause Bow down to the demagogues They form your opinion with state controlled propaganda Bow down to the demagogues They discredit opposition with disinformation Bow down to the demagogues They spy on you in the name of manufactured paranoia Bow down to the demagogues They imprison subversives to set an example When fascism comes to America It will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross As fascism takes root in America It is welcomed by the sound of thunderous applause Bow down to the demagogues They embrace Christianity to exploit childlike naivety Bow down to the demagogues They invoke morality to justify discrimination Bow down to the demagogues They disregard the laws that keep you in line Bow down to the demagogues They appeal to your patriotism to blindly follow When fascism comes to America It will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross As fascism takes root in America It is welcomed by the sound of thunderous applause

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 26, 2025

What we chastise one minute, we justify the next With the elevated morality that our torture reflects Our grand-standing assertions mean absolutely nothing If what we denounce is exactly what we bring Back into the lives of those we claimed to liberate The abuse we then condemned we now advocate and perpetrate We label them terrorists but how are we different When we reopen the rape rooms under American management? Victimized Demoralized Brutalized Dehumanized Locked down under freedom’s internment Never convicted or even charged with a crime Stripping them of their rights along with the dignity Is easier than winning their hearts and minds Interrogation erodes into inhumane torture In isolation where the world can’t hear their cries Abused in the dungeons of American tyranny Where international law no longer applies Liberated to be degraded Liberated to be humiliated The new dictatorship has reopened old wounds Terrorized in the American rape rooms Caught in the spotlight with blood on our hands Our credibility has been permanently damaged Those at the bottom have been made the scapegoats While the administration’s role still goes unacknowledged Ignoring all treaties and international standards Rewriting the laws to legalize torture Waging an all out war against Islam The pentagon wanted blood and Bush gave the order Liberated to be degraded Liberated to be humiliated The new dictatorship has reopened old wounds Sodomized in the American rape rooms We’re kidnapping civilians to keep America safe We’re imprisoning the innocent to keep America safe We’re murdering people to keep America safe We’re raping children to keep America safe Victimized Demoralized Brutalized Dehumanized Before the sickening images can take a political toll The right-wing spin machine plays damage control Talking points are dispensed to protect their ranks The torture draws comparisons to fraternity pranks To justify the torture of the “terrorist enemy” Our crimes against humanity are a wartime necessity We pat ourselves on the back as we spit in their face A slap on the wrist is a spit in their face Liberated to be degraded Liberated to be humiliated The new dictatorship has reopened old wounds Dehumanized in the American rape rooms

Submitted by Corpse Grinder — Apr 26, 2025

All life is exploited And in death there is no relief The unbearable mourning will never cease When they dangle your loved ones just out of reach Tugging on heart strings Ambition’s embraced and principles shed Opportunism rears it’s ugly head While the partisan cause recruits three thousand dead Molesting the dead to advance an agenda Molesting the dead capitalizing from pain Molesting the dead morality is forfeit Molesting the dead for political gain The grave robbers enter Clutching their shovels and courting the slain They’re digging up more than the past and its pain To present a parade of corpses for an election campaign For an ethical overhaul They’ve summoned the dead to answer their call For those who champion abstinence They sure are committed to screwing us all Molesting the dead to advance an agenda Molesting the dead capitalizing from pain Molesting the dead morality is forfeit Molesting the dead for political gain They preach family values So they’ve exhumed the bodies for a family reunion This morbid seduction for party inclusion Where the murdered can still serve a political function To forever live on as martyrs for nationalism So politicians can cry crocodile tears To enact their policies by feeding our fears And continue to justify their actions for years Molesting the dead to advance an agenda Molesting the dead capitalizing from pain Molesting the dead morality is forfeit Molesting the dead for political gain

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 26, 2025