Tom Leonard

Glasgow, Scotland

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First Poster Poem against the Criminal Injustice Bill

 
 
Before the 1820 rising in the

West of Scotland a network of

 

  don't call them government spies 

call them MI5
call them MI6
call them special branch
call them the anti-terrorist squad
call them F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6 right through to 12
call them counter-insurgency

don't mention them
keep quiet about them
refuse to discuss how much money's spent
refuse to discuss what they do
swear everyone to secrecy

call them Intelligence

call the critics "unpatriotic"
call the critics "a security risk"
call the critics "conspiracy theorists"
call the critics "traitors"

call the critics paranoid

 

government spies kept watch

over the Combination Acts

against assembly