Milton Friedman said it loud and clear
Free capitalism from all its chains
And true freedom will thus appear
As all good gifts from heaven rain.
While in theory this might be so
In practice complications arise
As lowly peasants come to know
Their hopes’ rapid demise
For the system to work as all can see
Harsh measures are required
As this system really works the best
With workers enslaved and dog tired.
Friedman’s nirvana is really simple
Eliminate government (except the troops)
As they are needed to keep order
All other duties are privatized
State assets sold at bargain rates.
Such measures can only be pursued
When the army is there to coerce
Threaten, torture or disappear
And foster a climate of fear
Of instant death or one delayed
Or bodies falling from the skies and
Corpses by the roadside lying
For all to see plain as day
The moral clearly apparent:
Don’t fuck with us or here’s
Your fate—think long and hard
Before you act for retribution
Is swift and sure
A visitation in the night
The falcon swoops and grabs it prey
And whisks him stealthily away
To torture chambers with bloody floors
And impenetrable doors
And let the masses congregate out
On the street in ones and twos
The guanaco spits the crowd disperses
Don’t let a critical mass of dissent arise
Paralyze with fear stifle all dissent
But you see nothing here is new
For this is what for 500 years
Has been done starting with Ferdinand and
Isabella
Grab the resources using slaves
Maximize profits no thought to
The masses.
For they are stupid and they
Need the moral probity
On them unleashed
To keep them docile and paralyzed.
HP Charman MD
In Argentina Friedman’s Xeroxed Brick served as the plan for a new society. Ford Motor Company supplied Green Falcons to the military for use of the secret police. The first order was to assassinate the labor leaders in the Ford Motor plant. Water cannons (guanacos spit) were used for crowd control. Dissidents were chained together and pushed out of helicopters like sausage links…) See Naomi Klein: Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.