Invitation : A Poem From a Benghazi Scapegoat

Invitation

by Raymond Maxwell


The Queen’s Henchmen
request the pleasure of your company
at a Lynching – to be held
at 23rd and C Streets NW
on Tuesday, December 18, 2012
just past sunset.

Dress: Formal, Masks and Hoods -
the four being lynched
must never know the identities
of their executioners, or what/
whose sin required their sacrifice.

A blood sacrifice –
to divert the hounds -
to appease the gods -
to cleanse our filth and
satisfy our guilty consciences.

Arrive promptly at sunset –
injustice will be swift.
there will be no trial,
no review of evidence,
no due process, and no
accountability.

Dress warmly -
a chilling effect will instantly
envelop Foggy Bottom.
Extrajudicial.
Total impunity.
A kangaroo court in
a banana republic.

B.Y.O.B.
Refreshments will not be served
because of the continuing resolution.

And the ones being lynched?
Who cares? They are pawns in a game.
Our game. All suckers, all fools,
all knaves who volunteered to serve -
Us. And the truth? The truth?
What difference at this point does it make?

In the event of inclement weather,
or the Queen’s incapacitation,
her Henchmen will carry out this lynching -
as ordered, as planned.

Eight months after the attack, Congressional investigators and outside groups are still pressing the State Department to explain how the ARB came to the conclusion that four mid-level officials were the only ones with responsibility for the failures that led up to the attack.

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While I understand your outrage (and join you in your lament)......THIS is how things get done......I am EQUALLY outraged at the LACK
of accountability/root resolution to the sexual assaults in the military (for MANY,MANY years, the poor/NON existent resolution is
despicable)......WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE......WHERE is the accountability at the top level?......Just the way things get done.....half
assed and INCOMPLETE. JMO

homeagain wrote: While I understand your outrage (and join you in your lament)......THIS is how things get done......I am EQUALLY outraged at the LACK
of accountability/root resolution to the sexual assaults in the military (for MANY,MANY years, the poor/NON existent resolution is
despicable)......WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE......WHERE is the accountability at the top level?......Just the way things get done.....half
assed and INCOMPLETE. JMO

Well I never said I was outraged, just thought I'd bring up one of the only four people (five if you count the video guy) who are supposedly culpable for what happened. As far as the military thing, I'm as outraged as I am with any sexual assaults outside the military. There will always be a small percentage of sexual criminals in our population... and putting some of those same people in the military won't change their sick minds, especially when they are working along side women. Probably a good topic for another thread.

Anyway, this guy seems to think he's a scapegoat and I hope we can find out what his (and the others) roles were in this. For some reason, nobody iis talking about them. I also just changed the title by adding quotes to scapegoat, since it's not necessarily a factual description.