F.O.P. lo-fi

This is the last of our lo-fi recordings from a recent rehearsal. It’s about policing in America. I’m pro-labor. I grew up singing union songs with my family. I have been a member of unions. The problem with police “unions” is they are entrenched in the past. In fact, “past practice” is their mantra of reactionaryism. In this piece, we musically quote Salt Peanuts with the words “past practice”. Dizzy said “salt peanuts” was just nonsense words that worked. ‘Nuff said.

F O P
Fucked up Our Police!
Say What?

F O P
Fucked up Our Police!
Say What?

F O P
Fucked up Our Police!
Say Wh….?

Wait a minute.
Whatchu mean OUR police?
Ain’t never been OUR police!
Rich white people’s police – yeah.
But never OUR police.

Lot of ‘em started out slave-catchers.
Most of the rest were Pinkerton or the like
They were jackals working for
the WHITE Man.

The white MAN recruited brutalizers,
vicious men kill without thought
Take brass knuckles over bare
slit a throat easy as take a piss
men with Fists Of Pain
F O P
Fists Of Pain

They recruited bullies and rapists
Belittlers and petty tyrants
Men who take advantage of the weak
Men enticed by the Flatulent Odor of Power
F O P
Men Full Of Petty Power

when the people fought the power
These were the men who put them down.
F O P
Fists Of the Powerful
Criminals in service to the rich

The palace guard of white su-pre-ma-cy
NOT OUR police!

The Fraternal Order of Police
F         O        P
uses “past practice” to justify and protect 
Full On Perpetrators F O P
Full On Perpetrators of murder and mayhem.

Past Practice.
Past Practice
The oldest past practice in American policing is hunting Africans escaped from forced labor camps
abusing them
murdering them.

The second oldest past practice in American policing is lynching – Emmet Till
Police in the Klan

Past Practice
Past Practice
Past practice in American policing is busting heads and busting unions –
Police in the firing squads at Ludlow.

Past Practice is attacking protesters –
Selma  Montgomery  –  Kent State  Columbus

Past Practice
Past Practice 
is murdering activists –
Police in the doorway at Fred Hampton’s
In the background of Malcolm X
In the Shadow of Hoover’s FBI

Past practice
Past Practice
Past Practice is white race riot murders
Police in the mobs of Tulsa East St. Louis Rock City

Past practice is the blue wall of silence
Police in militias, nazis and proud boys

Past practice
Past Practice 
is racism and sexism and religious discrimination
Treason and insurrection
Bigotry and hatred

Past practice is Full of Police
F O P
Full of Police for Black Lives Matter
But free of police
F O P
Free of Police for insurrectionists
And now that’s past practice

Past practice is Fuck Our People
F O P
New practice
Free Our People