The Royal British Legion

-the patriotic placebo against future wars
that never works, but instead-in the longer term,
makes the families of the combatants
of said wars pay up in the loss of human life.

In The War On Terror

And it has been that way for a thousand years.
From Abu Ghraib to the Vatican chambers of the middle ages
what the powerful now deny is how cannibalism
is more moral and proportionate than torture.
Generally, when cannibals ate human flesh
it was not out of hunger, but with a sense of  rituals
limited by custom, which implicitly echoed
the animal.origins of human beings in their empathy.

Whereas torturers are the servants of  faith and state elites,
and are the original un-living mentally dead, methodically
trapping random unwary victims in a sickness of  suffering,
the better to make their deadly orthodoxies the only life allowed.