Archive for February, 2008
February 29, 2008 at 10:59 pm
· Filed under Misc. Poems, Random Rants ·Tagged imagination, literature, mind, passive, pen, poetry, thoughts, white flag, writer's block, writing
Nothingness invades the mind,
Launching it’s long war.Emptiness; the siege of time
The beauty of seeing more.
The pen walks the page idly,
Retracing it’s tracks occasionally.
Encrypting its long history
Destroying my literate sobriety.
Why. Why am I blocked at this time.
With so much to contemplate.
Why. Why must I blank out the truth,
Why must I dare to look at you.
When no words enter my head.
I lie still, gazing into the spaces imagination ran from.
Simplicity encompasses my entire complexities.
The paradigm shift of my thoughts has taken me nowhere.
The hegemony of lethargy hijacked my system.
I wish in place of my lost skill.
But wishing only spreads the spill,
And makes me ill with morbid behavior.
And the tendencies of tentativeness join in allegiance
With the crusade of passiveness,
Exploiting my loopholes to the extent,
That the virus’s crawl into everything I know.
I’m nothing without controversy.
Nothing, without my epithet of ingenuity.
There is no epitaph on my grave.
For the world became ineloquent, immediately.
Mercy evades my gaze,
Again, I am cold to the heat of spontaneity,
Again, I am alone with my insanity.
I wave my white flag, but the persecution of continues.
The serenity is disturbing.
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February 16, 2008 at 10:29 am
· Filed under Politics ·Tagged america, ban, blog, bloggers, bush, congress, constitution, democracy, equal rights, government, habeas corpus, intelligence, law, left wing, legislation, prison, senate, survey, terror, terrorism, torture, usa, veto, vote, water board, waterboarding, white house
A recent poll showed that 68 percent of Americans said water-boarding was torture. And that result is from CNN, a particularly right wing corporation. Imagine all the people who do not participate in CNN surveys. I expect the result would be even higher than 68 percent in that case.
The senate have recently passed legislation to ban water-boarding, regardless of Bush saying he will veto the vote, on his usual, pathetic, lazy stance that it will encourage ‘terrorism’. Yes, because kidnapping, arresting, then illegally torturing foreigners (and Americans) without fair trials is keeping terrorism down. Well done Bush, you ignorant liar.
Bush also said that they are placing to much trust in the intelligence ‘community’, by placing their trust into the hands of left-wingers. Of course! How silly and solipsistic it is to trust people who believe in equal rights, habeas corpus, and the constitution…
Another recent line of Bush is:
‘The American people will find it baffling that on a day that House leaders are trying to put off passing critical legislation to keep us safer from the threat of foreign terrorists overseas, they are spending scarce time to become the first congress in history to bring contempt charges against a president’s chief of staff and lawyer’
No, Bush, the American people will finding baffling in the future, to think that someone as authoritarian and evil as you could get into power. That’s the confusing part.
57 percent of likely voters also oppose telecom immunity. In a real democracy, the majority call goes through. But the USA is not under a democracy. It is under despotism.
I can’t wait for Bush to get out of power. The world is getting tired of his ridiculous, irrational decisions and comments. Obama will be a breath of fresh air for the world if he comes into presidency, because the statue of liberty must be pretty depressed right now.
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February 11, 2008 at 12:05 am
· Filed under Journal typed things, Politics, society ·Tagged anfal, campaign, essay, iraq, kurdish, kurdistan, kurds, opression, piece, saddam, syria, turky, war
My next piece is going to be on Kurdistan and Saddam’s Anfal Campaign – the attempt to eradicate Kurds from Iraq.
I also hope to cover the current Kurdish situation, as I feel very strongly for the Kurdish people and their endless years of oppression. I will hopefully have something done by sometime next week, however I have been extremely lazy in my writing recently, so I cannot guarantee it. I hope it will be informative and helpful to those interested in the genocide and what’s going on in Iraq at the moment.
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February 6, 2008 at 9:04 pm
· Filed under Journal typed things, Politics, society ·Tagged anarchy, fifth of november, free speech, government, guy fawkes, liberties, liberty, november, parliament, plot, Politics, protest, rebellion, revolt, revolution, rights, rising, society, treason, uk, unity, v, vendetta
This weekend I watched an amazing film. V for Vendetta. Finally, a film about England that is, yes mainstream, but more importantly, inspirational, challenging, revolutionary and every so slightly anarchistic. When I say anarchistic, I mean that blowing up the houses of parliament is may not be the correct way to get things changed, but my god, those fireworks looked awesome in the finishing scene.
V for Vendetta is, without exaggeration, one of the best films I have ever seen. Walking along the streets, I keep hoping that I’ll see a large ‘V’ carved or sprayed onto propaganda in my city, sprayed on billboards and buildings. I want it to be everywhere. I keep hoping to see, along with a myriad of ‘V’ symbols, people in V masks, V cloaks. I want a revolution, dammit!
I was surprised, and ecstatic to discover that around 100 people protested outside the White House, all dressed as ‘V’. Click here to read the article.
I hope that this film has made people wake up to the serious issues, the real problems that we face in the UK; the way our liberties are being stripped away in the name of terror; how are privacy is being removed in the name of fighting crime – the issues in V for Vendetta are real. And, more shockingly, if you look around, you can see it happening now.
Despite the film being shunned by many anarchists (e.g. ‘A for Anarchy’) due to the removal of important anarchist scenes, it is still a great film, that I’m sure will have a large impact on the public in the UK, and hopefully, in dictatorships acrross the world.
This is an important film for the UK, and one that should be seen by anyone shocked or angry about what is happening before our very eyes. While the film is not a call for terrorism on the scale of destroying the houses of parliament like Guy Fawkes attempted in the 16th century, it is more a call to arms, a call for unity, revolt and transcendence.
Remember, remember the fifth of November. Because it should never be forgot. Guy Fawkes attempted to destroy parliament because of religious reasons, but our vendetta is different. This is a social, and political vendetta. We want our rights back. And, we most certainly are going to get them.
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February 6, 2008 at 7:10 pm
· Filed under Politics ·Tagged america, barrack, bush, clinton, conservative, democracy, elections, fear, government, iraq, liberal, mccain, president, romney, super, torture, tuesday, us, vote, voting, war
The US presidential elections in 2008 are a big deal. A really big deal.
With a global hegemony, massive arms supplies and a lot at stake, who wins in 2008 is going to make a large difference. Of course, this is obvious, but some people do not realize the seriousness of the situation.
I live in the UK, and from here, I feel fear for the world about who is going to become the new president. They are a superpower, so why shouldn’t we be scared. It is vital that whoever wins is going to make choices that will benefit not just America, but the rest of the world.
My heart is filled with dread. Dread that the person who wins the election could be like Bush. It reminds me of a cartoon I saw where a family were standing by the TV, waiting for the results of presidential elections with guns to their heads.
However, despite all this fear, I have immense hope for the future. Hope that the next president of the US will choose to end war, to end torture, to follow international law, to shut down Guantanamo along with other illegal, secret prisons over the world and give the inmates fair trials at last. On top of these things, the US needs to rescue the economy; to get rid of the PATRIOT act and to stop invasive, big-brother-like citizen surveillance, among many other issues.
Sadly, US government do not really have a left wing. If you look at places like Sweden, even the most ‘liberal’ of US politicians look like despots when compared to Swedish politicians.
Despite the lack of liberal candidates, I believe there is a great hope for America. Super-Tuesday has just gone, with Barack Obama achieving great success in the elections. Hillary Clinton also did well, which in my opinion is a shame due to her support of the Iraq war.
John McCain and Mitt Romney got a large number of votes for the republicans. This is shocking since McCain stated that he thinks the US should stay in Iraq for 100 years, and equally disturbing is the fact that Romney has previously tried to justify totalitarianism, and, shockingly, is part of a group set up to deny the facts of global warming. That will go down excellently with the oil corporations. As you can tell, both Romney and McCain are very conservative.
I think Barack Obama will make a great president if he wins the elections, despite the ambiguity concerning his support or opposition to the Iraq war. This is a vital time in America, and the elections could mean that, if the right candidate becomes president, the US could get back on track again – away from war; away from torture; away from the crumbling economy and the rapid destruction of civil liberties.
I hope Americans have done what they think was right in who they voted for. Whoever wins, the winner is most likely going to be better than Bush..
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