bureaucrats

bureaucrats always think

they are on the side of right,

no matter how wrong or unjust

that side might be,

never seeing themselves

through the eyes of

their victims,

never understanding

the rights of individuals,

over the authority of the system;

despots and tyrants could not exist

without their bureaucrats,

someone to stamp the orders,

someone to file the paperwork,

ensuring the trains run on time to

places like Auschwitz and Treblinka,

someone to provide a well functioning

slave market to fuel the cotton industry

and strengthen the economy,

hiding the suffering and misery,

disguising the reality,

behind walls of official sounding

jargon,

vital cogs in the machine,

the darkness behind

the evil,

good people

just doing their job,

mindless,

robotic;

pathetic;

yes, evil needs bureaucrats,

but it needs something else

as well,

someone to look the other way,

as neighbors are taken from their

homes in the middle of the night,

someone to remain silent in the face

of intimidation and overwhelming fear,

someone to excuse violence and injustice,

in the name of national security

and welfare of the state;

it needs its bureaucrats;

it needs you and I as well.

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