How long must we serve the alphabet soup?

First we must uncover and undo
the corruption of our courts of law
for if we can not remove bribery
and graft and fraud from the bench
we shall never remove the parasitic usurpers
who have controlled all three houses
and both sides of the coin
from Congress to the White House
they've lined up at the trough of public largess
coerced through the grand deception of
fraudulent legislation disguised as legitimate law
fraudulent legislation delivered by way of
controlled debate in think tanks and board rooms
from the hands of brothers
issue directives and memos and fraternal orders
smoke and mirrors all of it
illusionary and illegitmate
something to distract the mark
as the pickpockets make their moves
how do we get back what has been stolen?
follow the money, right?
through obscure foreign entities and
corporate fronts of our own intelligence
to secret accounts by the billions
spirited away in our absence of mindfulness
find the names of the brothers and their affiliations
wind the thread into a spool
the big picture is never as simple as it's made out to be
it's a complex and intricately woven tapestry
of connections and codes
decipher the codes and
trace the connections to find the truth
to reveal the truth one needs a just court
revolutions always end in courtrooms

- Scott Tuomala, 2002