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