The Old Lie - Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

The truth has a way of leaching out from under the cold steel boot of oppressors. Modern-day Britain is an inherent disgrace to all freedom fighters of the French and Russian revolutions and those shining leaders of equality such as Malala Yousafzai. We must be rendered repulsive to the eyes of others and hopefully, to our own. I stumbled, very gladly, upon a wondrously truthful article written on an idealistic British revolution of which I am a big dreamer. Kevin McKenna, I salute you Sir!

Some of us are asking the same questions of ourselves in 2013: why, in the face of so much inequality, corporate dishonesty, police brutality and political corruption, do we simply grumble and stage good-natured and orderly marches, with multigrain sandwiches and infants in prams? Why do we continue to be bought off with endless royal jubilees, worthless Olympiads and the creeping militarisation of a country whose soldiers are treated like heroes for fighting wars against developing world nations?

This is a very important revelation. Why have we not rid ourselves of oppression and corrupt governments? We, the people, are the cogs of our country, it is our pockets that should dictate the economy that we found ruined by green-finger bankers and scheming politicians. I share with Mr McKenna the disdain for purposeless Royal occasions that glamourise the wealth of a sole ruling family, an extremely outdated idealism that the British people should view as totally superfluous. How is it that deep-pocketed Cameron, in his whimsical delusions, believes sporting events with the world's athletes bring England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales together? Meanwhile, this Tory git will have us brainwashed into leaving the EU?! Wake up people! To have a proper Union means equality, not a dictatorship by English government draining all resources from it's neighbours and belittling it's own citizens! We pat our children shoulders when they are off to war yet we do not stop to think they are murdering innocent human beings in another country or even still, fighting groups such as the Taliban, but it is not our war to fight. Yes, we MUST help those people. Yes, we cannot sit still twiddling our thumbs. However, we are an intelligent people lucky enough to have the resources so readily available in the West. We have the ability to treat the wounded, send aid and money, find compromises, form treaties. We abuse our power like America and allow them to lead us to slaughter like the pied piper removing the vulnerable children from their hometown. Who says that other countries cannot have weapons? If we have them, which we should not, why should they not be allowed the "protection" we deem necessary for ourselves? The hypocrisy is rife!

And again, Cameron would wish us to isolate ourselves from the EU, to abandon our allies. This is a petty move of an inexperienced leader.

While Vodafone, Google, Rangers FC and hundreds of other major companies have been allowed to deprive the exchequer of billions in tax revenues, the Westminster government remains focused on doing what the Conservatives have been doing for hundreds of years: penalising the poor.

The Conservatives are only interested in the coins in their hands and the notes in their obese wallets. Find a redeeming quality of this outdated party and I will diligently eat Bart Simpson's shorts! The problem in Britain today is the lack of parties for the people, by the people. Labour have withered away with Ed Milliband's incoherent speeches anesthetizing the electorate and the influx of posh Eaton schoolboys humming and hawing and copying the Conservatives. Meanwhile the Libdems scored several damning own-goals almost, it seems, deliberately under Whats-His-Face's order. Ah yes, Nick Clegg. I'd forgotten his name for a while... It's a pity because I had decent respect for Libdem policies until they got into bed with Cameron avec cronies and came up with fleas (or Gonorrhea). As a sufferer of depression, when asked my mood on a scale of one to ten, I feel pictures pre- and post-election of Mr Clegg's face sum it up nicely. Need I even bother mentioning the scum of BNP/UKIP a.k.a borderline-Nazi racists? I am not a supporter of Scottish Independence personally, however I can see the glittering nation in the horizon as easily as the next Nationalist and it sure beats the pathetic spineless crowd of tight-upper lipped buffoons squabbling over who has more money, that are running the UK at the moment. My only hope seems the Green Party and even their efforts are, at best, weak and ignored easily. Perhaps some young revolutionists would like to step up and campaign? They have my vote already.

Many of those who are seeking their battered tins of spaghetti hoops or bashed packets of pasta are not the feckless drug- and alcohol-addicted workshy of popular rightwing myth. According to one charity organiser in Glasgow's East End I talked to last week, these are people who often have to accept scandalously low-paid work simply because they don't want to take benefits. In the winter, they will be penalised again when the cartelism of the energy companies kicks in and they can only afford to heat one room in their home.

I think some of you may have forgotten the times before pensions and decent human rights. The government believed the poor were poor because they were lazy. This is the exact level of mind control the Tories are polluting us with today! Benefits are not for the lazy - they are for the poor, the sick, the single parents, those who are desperate for a job to feed their family. We work just as hard as the billionaires, perhaps even more! Those who strike are not time-wasters, they are utilising a right that more of us should exercise. You'll sit there and compliment the cinematography of Les Mis yet you are blind to the message; you feel sorry for the characters in the movie? Then plug in your brain, see what is happening on your own turf.

Not long ago, these people would have been able to turn to the Labour party and the trade unions to fight their corner, but those days are long gone. These days, strike action is confined to boutique one-day stoppages. If people begin to make rude messages with their fingers or snarl at the police who will outnumber them two to one, then they will be kettled and jostled by our state-licensed knuckle-draggers.

The Labour party, meanwhile, has been kidnapped by a shower of unprincipled Oxbridge careerists and their utterly useless Scottish concubines.

The real wonder of the 2011 riots in England and Wales isn't that they happened at all but that there weren't more of them, that they didn't last longer and that there was so little violence. A British revolution is long, long overdue … but perhaps we simply don't deserve one.

We must fight for our own rights because these snobs we name politicians will only fight for their own. I was baffled by the opinions of ignorant twats that claimed the riots were "evil". Yes, I understand that complaint from a parent that lost their son or daughter in the violence but not ordinary citizens. Am I missing something? Has everyone gone mad? The old lie -  Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - what is the point when you fight for a country that does not fight for you?

[http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jun/16/britain-needs-a-revolution]

The Jolly Old Tommy Robinson and His Band of Not-So-Merry Followers

Perhaps it's been too long that I have not posted. However several topics have come to my attention that I was compelled to bring up. The first on my kill list was most definitely Tommy Robinson, founder of the English Defense League. Most assuredly, will it go on my list of badly abbreviated groups with un-flowing initials.

Now you'd be forgiven for thinking this man shares a similar name to the lovely Tony Robinson of Blackadder and the voice for many intriguing historical documentaries. Upon watching this morning's Sunday Morning Live, I was faced with the twisted slime-ball that is the Tommy Robinson of the English Defense League. Deceivingly, he strikes one as the typical football-mad loud-voiced English gentleman but watch and listen a little longer and you will be slapped in the face with extremist Anti-Everything views that regurgitate in a putrid green slime from his over-sized gob. Too harsh? On the contrary, as this man, despite his protests and badly-deflecting arguments, is just another echo of the likes of the BNP and UKIP and you could even go as far as comparing EDL to the same species as the brown shirts of the 1930's. A bigot is he, that believes that all Muslims, yes, ALL are to blame for the minuscule populace that dabble knee-deep in extremist codswallop. Perhaps a little hypocrisy is flowing through this dim-wit's half brain because I think the statement that is very appropriate at this moment, and takes us all back to our school days, is the wondrously-useful "It takes one to know one!"

I have become increasingly concerned with the British media's portrayal (We shall come to the issue of Media Regulation in another post soon) of ALL Muslims as a people to be fearful and suspicious of. Again, the depiction is reminiscent of the disgusting Nazi cartoons that showed Jews as rats to be stamped out. As a young person with many friends of different religions, nationalities, sexualities and beliefs, I find is repulsive that this stereotype is allowed to live and breathe. To quote a fantastically-insane Royal, "Off with their heads!" Religion and State have no place being entangled and we do not wish a repeat of the Theocracy of the Puritans in America. All religions, no matter how strange they seem, everyone on British soil has the right to a freedom to practice their belief system of choice. However, extremists sadly take this as an invitation to live without being attacked yet pick and choose the laws that they themselves wish to follow. Islam is a religion that teaches peace. As a wandering atheist, I would say that all religions have their flaws, all religions have those that misinterpret messages, all religions have extremists. Also we must not forget the majority of religious scriptures were composed in ages where women had next to no rights, homosexuality was regarded a disease and the disabled were shunned from society. So with a pinch of salt, we must put on our 21st-Century spectacles when we examine any teachings. It is wrong to punish a collective for the mistakes and sins of an individual or band of individuals.

Maybe a little example is in order. Take a serial killer. Imagine for forty years, they got away with hundreds of crimes, tallying up a high rate of victims. But they maintain the pretense of an ordinary man or woman, married, with children. Ask yourselves now, would it be right for those children to be constantly punished, bullied and even put on trial for their father or mother's crimes? No, of course not! Then why should all Muslims be held accountable for the actions of a minority of extremists? The answer does not change.

Not shockingly, when attempted to be spoken to, when others opposing Mr Robinson's views wish to discuss in an adult manner, Tommy enjoys squealing at the top of his lungs like a pig ready for slaughter. And may I say, the noise of the pig is certainly cuter. Dear old EDL like to claim that their group is not for Nazis and the like and is integrating with homosexuals, Sikhs and the working class. Ha! I scoff at your vile lies, Tommy! Someones been a naughty boy. And not in the cool sense.
Of course, many in Britain would propose that Tommy does sew the seeds of some rational ideas and opinions but merely builds on them in an aggressive manner. Perhaps there could be flecks of truth dwelling at the bottom of the pond but you must fish them out carefully to avoid being sucked into Mr Robinson's games. Yes, extremism must be taken care of, yet more importantly I think the bullying of others, those of a different religion or nationality or group, should be a priority. Why is it on a plane, the Muslim gentleman with a beard is given daggers but yet the violent verbally-abusive parent screaming at their child is not and the rowdy students chanting in a pre-drunk squawking enough to make migraines infectious throughout the cabin, are completely respected? Individuals are accountable for their own actions. Do not fall into the trap EDL have covered up with leaves.

Now to the English Defense League, I send my hopes for the best, the best being the dying out of their vomit-inducing beliefs that pollute the air of our beautiful island. Dear old Tommy Robinson, for you my ignorant little racist, I ask that you return from whence you came, this being whatever dark realm you slithered out of when the rancid aroma of bigotry swept up your reptilian nostrils. Good day to you Sir.

Viva La Multiculturalism!