A protest directed at the shooting by police of Jean Charles de Menezes in London, July 2005. The lyric, having affirmed Menezes’ ‘ordinary’ character, reflects on the machismo and incompetence of a police force mobilised by the ‘war on terror’. As a war with only a vaguely discernible enemy, in which everyone was a potential suspect, Menezes’ Brazilian origin was enough to see him targeted as a potential enemy of the state.