{"id":45222,"date":"2025-07-12T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T12:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=45222"},"modified":"2025-07-13T19:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T19:36:37","slug":"boots-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2025\/07\/12\/boots-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Boots on the Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XIV\/Boots-on-the-Ground-Best-Of.mp3\">Boots-on-the-Ground-Best-Of.mp3<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XIV\/Boots-on-the-Ground-Best-Of.mp4\">Boots-on-the-Ground-Best-Of.mp4<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XIV\/Boots-on-the-Ground.mp3\">Boots-on-the-Ground.mp3<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XIV\/Boots-on-the-Ground.mp4\">Boots-on-the-Ground.mp4<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XIV\/Boots-on-the-Ground-Unplugged-Underground-XXIII.mp3\"Boots-on-the-Ground-Unplugged-Underground-XXIII.mp3><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XIV\/Boots-on-the-Ground-Unplugged-Underground-XXIII.mp4\">Boots-on-the-Ground-Unplugged-Underground-XXIII.mp4<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kingarthur.com\/MegaEpix-Enormous\/multimedia\/XIV\/Boots-on-the-Ground-intro.mp3\">Boots-on-the-Ground-intro.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve found&#8230;<br \/>\n(We&#8217;ve boots on the ground)<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nUnder our nation &#8212;<br \/>\nMass deportation<br \/>\n(Within, and without)<br \/>\nNo doubt<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve found&#8230;<br \/>\n(We&#8217;ve boots on the ground)<br \/>\nOught to astound?!?!<br \/>\n(But look around)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nBoots on the ground<br \/>\nBest we impede<br \/>\nTheir stampede<br \/>\nLess they succeed<br \/>\nIn ending&#8230;<br \/>\n(Humanity)<br \/>\nOh, can&#8217;t you see?<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nIn front of our noses<br \/>\n(No one knows) or cares to share<br \/>\nPaid for, an addiction<br \/>\n(An infliction)<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve found&#8230;<br \/>\n(We&#8217;ve boots on the ground)<br \/>\nOught to astound?!?!<br \/>\n(But look around)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nBoots on the ground<br \/>\nBest we impede<br \/>\nTheir stampede<br \/>\nLess they succeed<br \/>\nIn ending&#8230;<br \/>\n(Humanity)<br \/>\nOh, can&#8217;t you see?<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Organ Solo]<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve found&#8230;<br \/>\n(We&#8217;ve boots on the ground)<br \/>\nOught to astound?!?!<br \/>\n(But look around)<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SONG<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\">America\u2019s Secret War in Gaza: U.S. Boots on the Ground in Genocide, Funded by You<\/h1>\n<p data-start=\"191\" data-end=\"596\">I\u2019m starting to realize that hardly anyone in the United States knows the truth: the U.S. now has boots on the ground in Gaza, participating directly in genocide. Under President Trump, a private military force disguised as a \u201chumanitarian\u201d organization has been deployed, with American citizens in combat roles actively shooting unarmed, starving men, women, and children who are desperately seeking aid.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"598\" data-end=\"1131\">This militia, operating under the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)\u2014a company quietly incorporated in Delaware\u2014has murdered hundreds of civilians under the banner of \u201caid distribution.\u201d It is not just part of an extermination effort; it is systematically starving civilians, destroying what remains of their shelter and water sources, and preparing for the mass deportation of millions from their homeland. This is nothing less than the total depopulation of Gaza to clear the way for Trump\u2019s vision: to build a resort on the ruins.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1133\" data-end=\"1393\">Remember, Trump already named a development in the Golan Heights after himself during his first term, right after moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. The current plan goes even further, turning genocide into real estate and mass murder into a business model.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1395\" data-end=\"1916\">This administration is not merely enabling genocide with weapons sales or diplomatic cover; it is <strong data-start=\"1493\" data-end=\"1519\">actively participating<\/strong> in war crimes with American boots, American bullets, and American bombs dropped on babies. And it is all funded by you. Your tax dollars are paying for the bullets tearing through children\u2019s bodies. Your tax dollars are financing the starvation of families under siege. Your tax dollars are building the siege walls around Gaza, enforcing an apartheid system, and bulldozing entire neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1918\" data-end=\"2108\">This is not a faraway conflict we can ignore while claiming innocence. This is direct, on-the-ground participation in genocide, carried out with full impunity, in your name, with your money.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2110\" data-end=\"2222\">It is time to stop pretending we do not know. The question is: <strong data-start=\"2173\" data-end=\"2222\">Now that you know, what will you do about it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"116\" data-end=\"177\">The Christian Zionist Agenda: Ethnic Cleansing as Prophecy<\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"179\" data-end=\"500\">There should be no doubt in anyone\u2019s mind: what you are witnessing is an ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people, orchestrated by a white supremacist, racist, Evangelical Christian, antisemitic U.S. government. This is not simply about geopolitical interests or security; it is a religiously fueled, extremist project.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"502\" data-end=\"873\">Trump, along with his \u201csupervisor of racism\u201d Stephen Miller, are leading figures among Christian Zionists who believe they are fulfilling prophecy by bringing on the \u201cSecond Coming\u201d and the \u201cEnd of Times.\u201d This belief system calls for an apocalyptic war and the eradication of Jews and Muslims from \u201cThe Holy Land,\u201d to clear the way for Jesus\u2019 return on the Temple Mount.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"875\" data-end=\"1195\">In this worldview, the systematic starvation, mass displacement, and extermination of Palestinians is not a tragedy to be avoided, but a <strong data-start=\"1012\" data-end=\"1035\">goal to be achieved<\/strong>. This ideology, once confined to fringe pulpits, has captured the highest levels of U.S. power and is now directly shaping foreign and military policy in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1197\" data-end=\"1533\">Christian Zionists are weaponizing religion to justify genocide, using U.S. military might and taxpayer funding to implement policies rooted in ethnic cleansing. This is not an abstract theological debate\u2014it is the material reality of bombs falling on children, food blockades starving families, and bullets killing people at aid lines.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1535\" data-end=\"1600\">And it is happening <strong data-start=\"1555\" data-end=\"1568\">right now<\/strong>, in your name, with your money.<\/p>\n<h3>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/songwriter\/tag\/shot\/\">Shot!<\/a>&#8220;<\/h3>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/everything.membrane.com\/trumpenomics-the-decline-of-the-us\/\">Trumpenomics: The Decline of the US<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boots-on-the-Ground-Best-Of.mp3 Boots-on-the-Ground-Best-Of.mp4 Boots-on-the-Ground.mp3 Boots-on-the-Ground.mp4 Boots-on-the-Ground-Unplugged-Underground-XXIII.mp4 Boots-on-the-Ground-intro.mp3 [Intro] I&#8217;ve found&#8230; (We&#8217;ve boots on the ground) [Verse 1] Under our nation &#8212; Mass deportation (Within, and without) No doubt [Chorus] I&#8217;ve found&#8230; (We&#8217;ve boots on the ground) Ought to astound?!?! 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