Absolute Power

The formula for absolute power is a simple one

deployed by a siege of the population's mind in

a psychosis of terror. The successful tyrant cannot be

viewed as a benevolent dictator for his mission to

achieve the structure of domination he has elevated

himself to cannot be viewed as accommodating to

the peoples' wishes,  unless their wish revolves around

the glory of the nation hawkishly viewing its neighbours

for signs of independence from the octopus pull of the

region's hegemonic power. Any dilution of the steel

armour of relentless predatory initiatives to muster

a benighted nation to conflict cannot be tolerated and

nor challengers critical of atrocities insufficiently brutal.

Those few with the effrontery of mind to damn the

tyrant as lacking the demonic drive to destroy, pillage

and slaughter in the broad-based rampages preying

on the innocent affront the tyrant well known never to

suffer the indignity of defiance to his totalitarian rule

the consequences of which have been swift and deadly.

One by one they fall, those who confront, who question

and oppose, destroyed by their own incaution whose

passion carries them to the pleased bosom of the

rapacious archangel of Death with whom the tyrant has

signed a very special pact of resolute death-on-delivery.