{"id":70904,"date":"2016-03-21T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=70904"},"modified":"2016-03-21T05:18:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T05:18:17","slug":"organized-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/03\/organized-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Organized Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cBehind every great fortune, there is a crime.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n&#8212; Balzac<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all seen the movies \u2018bout gangsters and thugs<br \/>\nAbout cunning mob bosses and the lords of the drugs<br \/>\nBut listen here closely if you\u2019ve got the time<br \/>\n\u2018Cause I\u2019d like to tell you \u2018bout organized crime<\/p>\n<p>Well the old mafiosi and cinema crooks<br \/>\nThey may sport the pinstripes and sinister looks<br \/>\nBut you\u2019ll have to look elsewhere if you\u2019d like to find<br \/>\nThe real perpetrators of organized crime<\/p>\n<p>So raise up your hands now if you\u2019ve got a job<br \/>\nMaking shit wages working until your head throbs<br \/>\nThey\u2019re making a profit by robbing you blind<br \/>\nThey say it\u2019s just business, but it\u2019s organized crime<\/p>\n<p>And the more the rich got then the more the rich get<br \/>\nWhile everyone else lives on toil and sweat<br \/>\nThe boss makes ten dollars, you just make a dime<br \/>\nIt\u2019s not fair compensation, it\u2019s organized crime<\/p>\n<p>Well the tide of prosperity lifts every boat<br \/>\nThey say as you fall down and drown in their moat<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a game of roulette that you\u2019ll lose every time<br \/>\nThis economy\u2019s nothing but organized crime.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me who are the crooks and who\u2019s just getting by?<br \/>\nWho\u2019s doing honest work; who\u2019s working lies?<br \/>\nThe real crooks go free while the poor folk do time<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re not angry you should be; it\u2019s organized crime<\/p>\n<p>But this time we can\u2019t just call up the police<br \/>\n\u2018Cause the criminals got all the cops on a leash<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll have to take things in our own hands this time<br \/>\nIf we\u2019re going to shut down their organized crime<\/p>\n<p>So come on now friends, are you ready to fight?<br \/>\nThey\u2019ve stolen our power like it was their right<br \/>\nLet\u2019s take it all back from those blood-suckin\u2019 slime<br \/>\nThe real perpetrators of organized crime<\/p>\n<p>Now talk to your neighbors and talk to your friends<br \/>\nTurn off the TV and start organizing<br \/>\nWe won\u2019t let them get off so scot-free this time<br \/>\nWhen we topple their empire of organized crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well the old mafiosos and cinema crooks<br \/>\nThey may sport the pinstripes and sinister looks<br \/>\nBut you\u2019ll have to look elsewhere if you\u2019d like to find<br \/>\nThe real perpetrators of organized crime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}