They trashed paradise, put in a torture czar

As Dirty Depends month came to end, Republicans did what they wanted, strip a legal right enshrined long before the United States was formed. They couldn't do it on their own, they needed Democrats to help out. And 15 weak souls joined the efforts to blast the bedrock our legal system was built upon.

If you're new to the story, use the links. We wanted to touch on this but it's depressing as hell. We painted an illustration ("Look up in the air! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's democracy falling!") and then ended up putting some new lines to Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" (first available on her Ladies of the Canyon album).



They trashed paradise
And put in a torture czar
With no habeas corpus
But you can still wish on a star
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They trashed paradise
And put in a torture czar

They took all the rights
And put them in a rights museum
And they charged all the people
5,000 dollars plus just to see 'em
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They trashed paradise
And put in a torture czar

Hey Bully, Bully
Put away that 'detainee' now
Strip me of all my freedoms
But leave me my flat-screen TVs
Please!
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They trashed paradise
And put in a torture czar

Late last night
I heard the screen door slam
And big useless Congress
Took away the rights I had
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone
They trashed paradise
And put in a torture czar