THE FOG OF SEMANTICS

Bulldoze ranforests

Slaughter a lamb

Swat a fly

Targets terminate

Thin a herd

Hunt a bear

Harvest a deer

Wasp nests exterminate

Pacify a village

Drone 'terrorist' camps

Weed a garden

Mice eliminate.

Mow a lawn

'Cropdust' a field

Fell a tree

'Invasive species' eradicate.

Execute a prisoner

'Control burn' a meadow

Scotch a dandelion

Foreign leaders serially assassinate.

Club a seal

Butcher a pig

Boil a living lobster.

Cockroaches decimate.

Harpoon a whale

A butterfly impale

Vivisect a rat

A fish asphyxiate.

Stone an alleged adulterer

Puppies drown

Cows down

Gay men decapitate.

Starve a population

Strangle a goose

Dartgun a manta ray

Ants annihilate

Electroshock an inmate.

Rendition an 'enemy'

Zap a dragonfly

By vaccination obliterate.

Nuke Japan

Snuff the kittens

Polycidally bomb Afghanistan

A population liquidate.

Masking words for breaking

commandments not to kill..

Blowing semantic fogs...

the war propagandist's skill.

-saiom shriver-

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We all know the atrocities of Hitler. Fewer know that Churchill deliberately starved the Indian population of Bengal during WW2.

Jesse Ventura: Thou Shalt Not Kill is not asterisked with exceptions.

The US Dept of Agriculture and Dept of Interior often set 'control burns' which when the wind turns direction kill even more humans animals and plnats than intended.

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