Frenetic ramblings from the start of the "War on Terror" logging my attempts to film outside Finsbury park mosque over 3 years and sitting through all the subsequent court cases. These days I am usually on Post Factual Society on Facebuk. Do visit Youtube.com/malungtvnews
Uncle Jimbo is naive if he believes courts are an arbiter of facts, or even of justice. They are arbiters of LAW, alone. Justice is only hoped for via the courts. Innocent people are convicted and the guilty are acquited, routinely.
To suggest issues of the day can't be timely examined via public scrutiny and opinion is ridiculous. Todays front page news is tomorrow's fishwrap, and the passing of time is crime's best friend.
As far as the military and its culture of death dealing goes, when soldiers celebrate the shooting of prostrate civilians -ON CAMERA- not much more need saying.
The Pentagon is an indoctrinating college of better ways to kill, only. Not one ounce of mental energy, or tax dollar, is spent waging peace. And at the first whiff of a new atrocity, its instincts and actions are to cover it up. Witness My Lai, Abu Ghraib, etc. etc. Imagine all the atrocities successfully covered-up?
The resources of America, and, hence, the World are squandered on this culture of death and war.
If the forces of peace had equal footing, the war machine would be stalemated, and there would be no war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon...
It's their spellbound parroting of propaganda that I find so disturbing.
Cut through the fog, and speak to the real issues, I say.
I never made any value judgements about the fineness of their bunch. It's the quality of the analysis, fueling the ongoing military miasma, that sucks.
A tenuous peace is better than war of any kind. Rightwingers in power rush to war. It's no mystery, it feathers their bloody nest. Bastards.
And most of them call themselves Christians. Hypocrite bastards.
People are dying and suffering for an absolute lie. There is no abiding it.
I play the law like a fucking chess game. Justice? I'll let my favourite band from Sao Paulo say it:
You will pay the price for my own sweet brother And what he has become And a hundred other boys and girls And all that you have done
No police, no summons, no courts of law No formal procedure, no rules of war No mitigating circumstance No lawyers speech, no second chance
There are eyes that see but say nothing at all There are ears that hear but they dont recall In this city of ours So we followed your man back to your front door And were waiting for you outside cos not everybody here is scared of you Not everybody passes on the other side
And we could spent our whole lives waiting For some thunderbolt to come And we could spent our whole lives waiting For some justice to be done Unless we make our own
Uncle Jimbo is naive if he believes courts are an arbiter of facts, or even of justice. They are arbiters of LAW, alone. Justice is only hoped for via the courts. Innocent people are convicted and the guilty are acquited, routinely.
ReplyDeleteTo suggest issues of the day can't be timely examined via public scrutiny and opinion is ridiculous. Todays front page news is tomorrow's fishwrap, and the passing of time is crime's best friend.
As far as the military and its culture of death dealing goes, when soldiers celebrate the shooting of prostrate civilians -ON CAMERA- not much more need saying.
The Pentagon is an indoctrinating college of better ways to kill, only. Not one ounce of mental energy, or tax dollar, is spent waging peace. And at the first whiff of a new atrocity, its instincts and actions are to cover it up. Witness My Lai, Abu Ghraib, etc. etc. Imagine all the atrocities successfully covered-up?
The resources of America, and, hence, the World are squandered on this culture of death and war.
If the forces of peace had equal footing, the war machine would be stalemated, and there would be no war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon...
It's all unnecessary, and futile.
WAGE PEACE...not war.
soldiers that blog seem like a fine bunch. In in or the right reasons. Its the multitude that don't I worry about.
ReplyDeleteI often woder if peace can be made so attractive to humans somehow.
It's their spellbound parroting of propaganda that I find so disturbing.
ReplyDeleteCut through the fog, and speak to the real issues, I say.
I never made any value judgements about the fineness of their bunch. It's the quality of the analysis, fueling the ongoing military miasma, that sucks.
A tenuous peace is better than war of any kind. Rightwingers in power rush to war. It's no mystery, it feathers their bloody nest. Bastards.
And most of them call themselves Christians. Hypocrite bastards.
People are dying and suffering for an absolute lie. There is no abiding it.
Fuck the law!
ReplyDeleteKick out the jams mothefucker!
I play the law like a fucking chess game. Justice? I'll let my favourite band from Sao Paulo say it:
You will pay the price for my own sweet brother
And what he has become
And a hundred other boys and girls
And all that you have done
No police, no summons, no courts of law
No formal procedure, no rules of war
No mitigating circumstance
No lawyers speech, no second chance
There are eyes that see but say nothing at all
There are ears that hear but they dont recall
In this city of ours
So we followed your man back to your front door
And were waiting for you outside
cos not everybody here is scared of you
Not everybody passes on the other side
And we could spent our whole lives waiting
For some thunderbolt to come
And we could spent our whole lives waiting
For some justice to be done
Unless we make our own
Yet struggle and war have always been.
ReplyDeleteWill the human race ever outgrow it?
Will war one day seem like the witch-hunts, a barbarous memory?
I don't know. How can I know?
But isn't that spirit to fight part of what makes the human spirit what it is? The dark side of that spirit, yes, but there is a light side to it too.