Tens of thousands of supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr marched in Baghdad yesterday as a crackdown on his followers raged in southern Iraqi towns and rockets and mortars exploded across the capital.
Archive for March, 2008
Allude to the problem.
Committing the atrocity of inevitable respect
Renegade and outcast made by focusing dissent
Pleasing the monsters of ignorance,
The machines of death and despair.
Selfish pleas to humanity
Motion and impulses
Memento and tragedy now pair.
The memories of nihilism
Etched into skin and bone,
The pessimism that merges hence,
Never walks alone.
Fighting pyramids of solipsism,
The towers of destruction
Spontaneous aggravation,
Alleviate my eruption.
Allude to the problem,
But don’t directly meet,
And never greet
Him who seats,
Upon heretic treachery.
Incognito gaze,
We masticate the maze,
And dire tropics flee,
To the videos archived in books on shelves
Illusion of history.
Compulsary voting?
From the Guardian:
‘A significant overhaul of electoral legislation to give voters a second vote, open polling stations at weekends and make it compulsory to participate is being proposed by the government to increase turnout and improve the legitimacy of the Commons.’
Let me paraphrase that. The most important and shocking section of that paragraph is the ‘ compulsory to participate’ . This means under the new voting system in the UK, people over 18 will be forced to vote.
This is ridiculous for many reasons. Voting is an essential part of a healthy democracy. Voting is a choice – a conscious, political, voluntary participation. If people don’t want to vote – that’s their decision. Choice is freedom. So forcing what should be a choice upon people contradicts the purpose of a democracy – freedom and choice.
This new voting system would be like the death penalty for attempted suicide – in essence, while they are supposedly trying to bring back democracy, they are actually destroying it. It is a political paradox.
Like fucking for virginity, these radical changes will be futile and stupid. That is what this new voting system is like. The traditional voting system works because people who want change choose to vote. Those who aren’t bothered don’t. And the people who don’t vote are usually not politically opinionated, so would be a bad electorate to be made to vote – people who aren’t interested with the government or don’t like any of the candidates simply don’t want to vote – and that’s obvious. Making people vote is insulting to democracy.
Perhaps they should put more effort in to what the people want rather than going ahead with frankly retarded ideas like this without asking for the People’s views on it. The People giving their views is democratic and is what should separate our country from dictatorships in which the government makes unwanted and unnecessary changes.
I oppose this new plan. It’s not realistic and it’s definitely not democratic. VOTING IS VOLUNTARY.
Unity and Compassion: Overcoming Intolerance.
Teaching intolerance
Under the pretext of care
Preaching love and compassion
When it’s hatred they wear.
Disgusting excuses and doctrines
That many people adopt,
Why can’t people’s differences
Be accepted for once?
Lost for words
At the vast hypocrisy
Saying their dogma is freedom,
And then they force you into their autocracy.
We should be equal
Not looking down at each other
There’s a paradox in some words.
We can’t let justice be smothered.
Tolerance,
And peace have got to lead the way
So we can live together
In harmony,
Let’s all be ourselves,
And still accept one another,
Work for a better future,
That the next generation
Will then gladly take over.
The right to have a religion,
Is crucial and just,
And their are a myriad of other liberties,
That also have our trust.
We can co-exist,
And thrive with one another,
Celebrating our diversity,
And loving each other.
But we can’t allow,
Intolerance and hatred to break apart this unity,
Which is why we struggle on together,
As a strongly bound community.
Peace.
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Note: This isn’t aimed particularly at religion, and definitely isn’t about hating religion, or any believers. It’s about accepting each other for who we are, and the right to diversity.
I have seen people be oppressed by religion, and I have seen hypocrisy. But I have also met amazing people of all faiths who want freedom, peace and justice in this world, and the majority of people do. It’s about everyone – regardless of religion, race, sexuality, gender or age – coming together and working for a better world.
Notebook
Telling my life
Through blue and white.
The pages and the lines
Of everything I strive to hide.
The workings of a fucked-up system,
Makes me into a monster
And shapes the mind.
I tell you everything.
There’s no lies.
Not living for the stereotypes that
I despise.
This culture hates our youth.
We’re not just another demographic,
We’re people who’ve had enough.
So open me up
Read my code,
The cryptic trails of
These troubled souls.
Always confusion,
Questions never answered
To make us into monsters,
You must shape the mind.
Allegiance won’t be pledged
To psychosis anymore.
My feelings are laid upon a map
But life’s directions remain obscure
We have fractured paradigms,
Of what is normal.
We stand and waste our time,
Just as messed up as before.
Paranoia becomes acceptable,
And fear becomes the truth,
It’s not the kind of world in which
I want to spend my youth.
It’s sectarian collectivism,
Taken to extremes,
They say we’re in it together,
But we’re alone as human-beings.
Cold War.
Dragged under water,
Crushed in the vice.
The files of Giles Corey
Has been brought back to life.
It’s the same these days,
With everyone.
The strings are tightened to the max
And we carry each other’s bombs.
It’s a cold war,
All the time.
Too many of us,
Wish to die.
The world has put it’s weight upon all our backs
And the pressures of modern life
Don’t allow us to relax.
The tyranny of the clock is seen,
When the flowers within in spite.
The train of vitality is moving too fast,
And for some, it’s endlessly night.
We long to ride the waves of serenity,
But the sirens of distraction
Won’t stop screaming.
Losing all sense of hope,
We’re losing all sense of feeling.
Fuel is coming in faster,
Than it can be used.
Pollution’s imperialism
Wrecks our atmosphere,
The worlds takes our abuse.
When the notes fly across the score,
Faster than can be played,
It seems the tunnel is never ending,
And we won’t see the light of day.
It’s a cold war, all the time.
It’s a cold war, all the time.
Another way.
This is all we know
The shadow we were born in to.
There has to be another way
Then society’s shouted diatribe,
of ‘Fuck You’.
The dreams of this world
Have yet to come true
We’re still asleep
To unthinkable possibilities
And say, ‘what are we going to do?’
The reason we continue
Is because we believe in change
The state we are left in
Is growing more insane
Oppression is becoming a weed,
That evolves immune to resistance
Oppression is refusing
It’s own inevitable fall and self-admittance.
Another way.
Another way.
Another way.
While theirs color in our eyes
We struggle on.
We have to help each other.
For us all.
We must right the wrongs.
