Wednesday 29 May 2013

redressing the record: religion, retribution and responsibility



despite periodic and concerted efforts to deviously detain us, disturb us, and distract us from our duties, we on this blog are somewhat erratically engaged in an absurdly sisyphean attempt to make sense of the senseless.

for my own part, i do not support any religion, but instead believe that a process of individual reasoning, resulting in conclusions derived from personal experience, is the sole grinding route to enlightenment. nonetheless, i respect everyone else's freedom to follow their various faiths, as long as they in turn do not prevent others from finding their own paths in life; the more shrines, temples, churches, synagogues and mosques the merrier, say i.

however, the misuse or wilful misinterpretation of religious teaching, in order to vent one's violent frustrations or justify murder, is clearly wrong, even when the target may previously have committed the self-same sin himself, and this is why i do not condone the statutory re-introduction of the death-penalty in this country - not-to-mention that such a move would simply be hijacked then subverted by malicious ideologists perniciously predisposed to the savage discrimination currently endured by citizens of our communities who are accustomed to historic vicious and habitual victimization from this so-called tolerant society.

on this account, i am bound to maintain that, no matter the seemingly maniacal manner of last week's murder in woolwich, the two assailants were fully conscious of their pre-meditated actions and must, if they have not in effect already done so, assume complete responsibility for them - thus setting a better example to the younger generation than members of our political hierarchy, security services, armed forces, and police services, who are equally guilty of such crimes, yet do not admit culpability.

finally, although i am no particular devotee of this philosopher, i would like to thank monsieur jean-paul sartre for his indirect assistance, via his stage-play les mains sales, in disentangling the amoral mess which has been manufactured, albeit mostly in my own mind, as a consequence of the macabre incident presently under the microscope of public criticism - and hence never hereafter let it be said that i have not given due and proper credit to personages of froggy heritage.


Thursday 23 May 2013

why ministers need to get out



despite yesterday's so-called 'terrorist' attack on a member of the british armed services in south-east london, and home secretary theresa may's self-assured security assessment that this incident "was an attack on everyone in the united kingdom", passengers on the london underground last night refused to buckle to government fear-mongering propaganda and proceeded to travel home in a cheerful and bubbly mood.

the ultimate reason for this indictable discrepancy between official and public perception of wednesday's bloody political assassination (of government apathy towards the state-sanctioned-slaughter and suppression of common people worldwide) is the profound inability of our political classes to discern the truth of any given matter, even when that truth is as plain as the snide stuck-up nose on a cabinet minister's fraggled old face.

due to the chillingly cool and communicative post-mortem analysis by one of the ordinary islamist street-guys who carried-off this piece of performance butchery, even the close witnesses to yesterday afternoon's horrific slaying clearly comprehended that this sick-spiritual-forces assault was really a scene in a theatre-of-war which did not actually or directly affect them as general citizens - because it was simultaneously a symbolic, psychological, and physical mash-up of the ruling establishment itself.

this biblical road-rage revenge did not shock london - we suffer the rhythmic self-annihilation of our ideologically mismodelled youth, week-in, weak-out; our great leaders' unspoken mantra of dog-eat-dog liberally cut with the rawhide rote of ram-raid ideology has provided the cruel cokehead cornerstone of our evil-by-example education system for at least a thousand years.

this extraordinary event was not (as implicitly reported by certain cynical media) a racially-motivated crime perpetrated by two black men against one white man - if indeed there was any insidious incitement, then this tragedy's flames were ostensibly fanned by religious fanaticism, the same form of freaky fundamentalism which drove st tony "the baptist" blair and st george "burning" bush to wreak a heinous holy holocaust upon hundreds of thousands in iraq, afghanistan and pakistan, where the casualties continue to include many civilian families.

this carriageway carnage was not an act of 'terrorism' in our prime-minister's perverted self-serving hijacked sense of the word, since it was an act of war by self-confessed comrades-in-arms against a contracted combatant figure of authority and completely indistinguishable from the actions of our own government's forces in afghanistan, for example - yet in its intention and effect, the slaying was in fact fundamentally designed to terrorize, manipulate and politicize the individual british citizen in the same tyrannical manner as our own troops have terrorized and blackmailed citizens in the middle-east over many hundreds of years on a monstrously industrial scale which can only be described as supremacist.

if these judicial jihadists' actions must be characterized as a crime, then surely it can only be considered a crime passionelle?  they just lost it, together with the whole humanitarian plot - and if their hatred was cultivated, it was most probably home-grown under the hothouse of british police barbarity; after all, when mark duggan was extra-judicially executed by the metropolitan police's flying squad, was that sensationally slick operation decreed a crime or the uniformed protagonists portrayed as terrorists?

when innocent civilians (often children) are 'collaterally' damaged and destroyed by death-drones or royal-approved apache attack-helicopters in war-torn-zones of afghanistan and pakistan, how many pilots are painted as terrorists and how many paraded as heroes?  unknown foreign bodies, it seems, are not in principle worthy of a paltry crumb of publicity at the highly-biased-table of the british broadcasting cartel.

if the ethereal ethical guardians, both christian and muslim, who pose as this country's theological élite, had ever bothered to rush to condemn the ever-stretching string of immoral western-inspired wars of aggression, in afghanistan, somalia, mali, ivory coast, syria, libya, iraq, yemen, and pakistan, and congo as lightening-quick as they have hot-hoofed-it into the capital's television studios to distance themselves from, and impiously vilify, these two democratically disturbed desperados, would perhaps our children have been forced today to watch this recurring digital nightmare on john wilson street?

does the british electorate understand that our governments, be they nominally left-wing, centre, or right, care not a jot for our livelihood, well-being and security, as they send off our soldiers like lambs to the sacred abattoir of power-without-responsibility for the impure purpose of vainly primping and propping up their megalomaniacal egos and decadently feathering the state-subsidized status of their own nasty narcissistic nests - only to import mayhem and murder at an exorbitant price to our own stressed-out streets.

(my, i bet our brave boys were chuffed-to-fuck about the security services' 20 minute response-time to yesterday's brazen bit of live-broadcast open-heart brutality - although how it happened on the doorstep of the poor cunt's barracks without anyone on-duty lifting a frigging trigger-finger or even noticing al qaeda outside playing ring-a-ring-a-roses round the truncated trophy corpse of their dead chum, god-in-heaven only knows, but obviously the other buggers in the battalion all now know exactly on which side the big fat bastards in westminster have buttered their mean army-regulation rations of sliced-bread for them.)

does david cameron not realize that these islamic resistance-fighters will "never buckle" in the face of anglo-american invasion, neo-colonialism, oppression and exploitation, any more than this island's population would ever have surrendered to the yoke of hitler's foreign fascism during the second world war?

ironically, it's our own extremist establishment which has been crushing the sweet juice of civilized culture from the hard-pressed communities of britain - however, 'removing' the crusty controlling classes will not be necessary, for our hopelessly hamstrung hierarchy is now steadily disintegrating under the dead-loss weight of its own conceited corruption.

in the wake of such stunning and sharply surreal news, i suppose this following remark must rank as a pretty inconsequential afterthought...but for many of us, the day when barack obama's misguided mercenary was ritually sacrificed on the altar of democratic hypocrisy in woolwich, south-east london, was the day when the american president's skin-colour patently became an incidental irrelevance.

i dedicate this response to mr david william donald cameron - in war there are no rules, and less reason.


Monday 20 May 2013

curtailed words



one of our most admired commentators, ms katie kwik-fit, has just been blocked from contributing to the on-going discussion of existentialist values over on the slog.

john ward, who preaches liberty, but practises carte-blanche censorship of expression on his charade of a discussion thread, wrote the following in reply to a zeusgoose comment on this at the end of the day blog-post:

zg
spot on. most animals live in now 95% of the time, and less ‘sophisticated’ they are, it goes nearer to 100%. there is no ‘time’: man’s frontal lobes invented it to explain multivaritiate data coming at us that would fry your head unless you simplify it.
now, about who’s going to win the cup next year…..

our girl, katie kwik-fit, who clearly operates on a higher plane of consciousness than ward, was cynically sandbagged as she submitted the following tips:

yes, john, quite...just two little points arising from all that...

...i often think that my dogs are more in touch with real life than i am myself, and slightly more intellectual too...
...you see, my job is basically all about showing good examples to the common underclass - which seems terminally addicted to the twin activititties of taking in trash-tv and milking other people's hard-earned money from the government benefits system - and in the small gaps between work, when i get off, i like to relax my overtaxed brain by reading a bit of rainer maria rilke - he's an amazing animal-loving poet who's well into country stuff and all things natural...
...out of the set of duino elegies, i personally recommend the eighth elegy, which connects nicely with your own point, as it so happens...
...my preferred translation is by a guy called cf macintyre - his book has double scripts, one on the left and one on the right, so you can appreciate the form of the original german version and the reworked english one, all at the same time...
...yeah, i'm really into rilke coz he didn't get subsidies from the state and liked to live in castles and shit like that.

typically disgraceful slog-hypocrisy - consistent with ukip-wally-philosophy.


Saturday 18 May 2013

too many kookie flag-wagglers spoil the british broth



owing to the twin trials of a close shave with frisky frisian separatists and an unscheduled mental abstraction by over-zealous froggie fans who left me digitally stranded with a gadget possessing the technological sophistication of a high-falutin fucking flapjack, blogging has not been possible in recent weeks...

...but now things have been succinctly sorted, spark up! can exclusively break the shocking news that, in the face of a very britannic civil war over exactly where english fruitcake ends and scottish dundee-cake begins, our evergreen prime-minister, dave "cucumber-patch" cameron, has abruptly back-tracked on parliamentary proposals to construct the highly-subsidized-choo-choo to economic ruin and instead diverted the £333 billion pre-allocated treasury funds into integral structural improvement and modernization of adrian's roll, the ancient british pastry-dyke running between tyneside and the solway firth, which has historically acted as a traditional boundary of ethnic demarcation and civil disunion.

it is further reported that celebrity exponent of true-blue-cuisine, cordon ramsarse, has been duly consulted and is currantly engaged in the process of testing the consistency and composition of the underlying cultural crust in order to establish the exact location of the disputed political fault-line - indeed, there is also confirmation that ramsarse has agreed to judge a great british fuck-off competition to design the decorative piping on the project.

in response to questions raised in the house of commons today, chef de partie cameron has been quoted as indicating his preference for a 'jimmy-jock' collaborative approach to resolving any aesthetic and artistic differences that may be encountered during the anglo-tartan co-production of this structure of vital national importance, and remains adamant that "good fences make good partnerships"; however, president "humbug" hollande of france has voiced concerns over the culinary specifications of cameron's turnover and stated his intention to supersede this « patisserie pathétique » with a giant all-encompassing european crâp - par-ce qu'il est un putain de cocksuckeur américain.