For you of law-abiding turn

   And candid temperament

It doesn’t pay to share concern

   Of criminal ferment

Or take to task in language stern

   The common miscreant

 

The vandal is no public blight

   Proclaims the advocate

To exercise his sacred right

   And nobly desecrate

Somebody else’s weal by night

   Protesting his estate

 

The thief is not a loathsome worm

   The robber not a curse

‘Victim’ is now the sanctioned term

   For those who loot our purse

And we by selfishness confirm

   Ourselves to be far worse

 

A rioter is not a thug

   Nor wanton arsonist

We’ll answer anarchy with hugs

   Apologists insist

And shake their heads and smugly shrug

   As outrages persist

 

No longer is it safe to scold

   The killer for his deed

Society, unjust and cold

   Itself nurtured the seed

That’s grown into a hunter bold

   And so we all must bleed

 

Even the savage Jihadi

   Can suffer no offense

Mysogyny’s his culture, see?

   His birthright violence!

Respect medieval bigotry

   Lest punishment commence

 

In this our modern Babylon

   We judge at our expense

Our highest virtue rests upon

   Unthinking tolerance

And greatest sin is hatin’ on

   Malignant pestilence