Blair’s “blood Price
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:47 pm
This was posted on another site by a friend of mine, I think it deserves a wider audience.
The four teenagers shot to death by other teenagers in Britain in four separate incidents this week were, to my mind, the latest British victims of Bush and Blair’s calamitous war in Iraq.
“But the two are completely unrelated, you will probably say.
I’m not so sure.
Our children learn by the deeds and example of their elders and peers. By their actions in and since the illegal invasion of a sovereign country in 2003, Bush and Blair have sent the message out loud and clear – if somebody pisses you off, well hey, you’ve just got to use force and kick ass to teach them a lesson and if a few people die in the process, well that’s just tough ****.
As Blair himself kept repeating back in the days when people actually believed a word he said, it’s all about “Education, education, education.
Teacher Tony has taught Britain’s next generation well. Violence, apparently, solves everything. Even if the recipient of that lethal violence is entirely innocent of whatever it was that pissed you off in the first place.
Blair glibly condemns those teenagers involved in gun crime as having “complete disregard for the Law whilst conveniently ignoring the contemptuous disregard he himself had for International Law in 2003. The word “hypocritical simply doesn’t do it justice.
If our leaders have no respect for the basic rights of others to live in peace, and can get away with the entirely unjustified attacking of innocent people with apparent impunity, why on earth should we be surprised when our children display the self-same aggressive and anti-social behaviour?
The answer, of course, is that we shouldn’t. The surprise, if there is one, is that it isn’t even more widespread. Give it time, though, give it time. There is so much more to come from Blair’s Britain.
My hatred for Blair and the sordid deceitful depths to which he and his cabal of toadies has sunk this once proud and decent country is well known on this web site. I have never been able to sum it up quite as eloquently, or as passionately, however, as the following excerpt from Neil Mackay’s brilliant “The War on Truth.
Read it and weep.
“The kind of lies this government tells are like a virus – like HIV. They weave themselves into the fabric and DNA of society, corrupting it, distorting it. Black is white, and up is down, and left is right. These lies are an abuse – an abuse of you and me and the society we live in. If you play with someone’s mind enough, eventually they will see the world in a different way – in a back-to-front, crazy way. The lies that our leaders tell us day in and day out have made us see the world the wrong way around.
If we see the world upside down, then our whole lives are lived on a false premise; our very existence becomes a sick joke. Our leaders, by lying to us, are robbing us of the reality of the world around us and stealing the truth from us – the one thing that each person should have an inalienable right to. The thoughts that we think after our minds are poisoned by the nonsense that our leaders spin for us bear no relation to reality. We see the world through a glass darkly – and the glass has been darkened by our Prime Ministers and Presidents lying to us and telling us that 2+2=5.
British soldiers are being drawn ever deeper into this terrible conflict; in Fallujah, a city was emptied by the Americans and Iraqi bodies were left to be eaten by cats and dogs in the streets; the insurgents kill daily; suicide bombers blow up lines of men waiting to join the police; US forces shoot dead injured combatants instead of taking them prisoner; our civil liberties are ripped up at home in the name of security; racism, hatred and fear become the common currency of day-to-day civil discourse.
How can we make any sense of any of these events – and events yet to come – if we have no context in which to understand them? If our framework for interpreting these events is based on lies then we cannot find the right answers to the right questions. To live in a world constructed out of someone else’s lies leaves each one of us unable to even identify what the right questions which we should be asking in the first place are. Our leaders have exploited us ruthlessly, and worse, they have corrupted our minds and our souls, making us culpable in their mass murders. Their ultimate sin is that they twisted our minds, took reality and the truth from us, fed us a diet of lies which infantilised us and made us dependent on them. Their lies were designed to frighten us (remember the one about us being only 45 minutes from destruction – that was a lulu wasn’t it?), stifle us, keep us quiet, meek and bewildered; our fear helped further their ends and keep them in power and us powerless. Trapped inside their lies, we are unable to challenge them. The truth, as the old saying goes, really will set you free.
George W Bush won four more years as the ruler of the United States, and Tony Blair was re-elected as the Prime minister of my country. America and Britain are drugged with lies and fear and confusion. That’s why both countries made such terrible electoral mistakes. It’s time now to wake up and throw the whole lying, filthy crew out. Forget Labour and forget the Tories, and forget the Democrats and the republicans – they all backed this war. Let’s look elsewhere for leadership. Let’s look for vision, independence of thought, humanity, honesty and integrity. If we don’t then we may as well shred the true concept of democracy. Democracies don’t exist through the rule of lies and fear and stagnant party politics.
Democracies thrive and become great through openness and freedom of thought. Our democracies need governments which treat their citizens as equally as those who have been voted into power and given the temporary honour and job of enabling us, the people, to live good and decent lives. They are not meant to be our leaders, they are meant to be our enablers.
Tony Blair has long told us that Britain has a “blood price to pay in this war; that the British people have to bleed collectively for a war he created out of a fog of his own lies. He asked us to send our sons and daughters and mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters to Iraq to kill and be killed for his deception.
Well, there IS a blood price that can be paid for his lies. And here’s how this particular debt can be honoured: if Tony Blair won’t send his own children who have reached military age to kill and die in Iraq, then he should do the decent British thing. He should call into the Ministry of Defence one day soon and ask if he can borrow a revolver from one of his generals. When he gets his hands on it, he should make sure that there is one bullet left in the chamber and then he should go back to Number 10 Downing Street. On his return he should write an apology to the British, American and Iraqi people on his hands and knees, with tears of contrition running down his face. He should then lock the door of his office and, like the good Christian he says he is, send himself to his maker for his final judgement. I sincerely hope his God forgives him. Because I can’t.
The four teenagers shot to death by other teenagers in Britain in four separate incidents this week were, to my mind, the latest British victims of Bush and Blair’s calamitous war in Iraq.
“But the two are completely unrelated, you will probably say.
I’m not so sure.
Our children learn by the deeds and example of their elders and peers. By their actions in and since the illegal invasion of a sovereign country in 2003, Bush and Blair have sent the message out loud and clear – if somebody pisses you off, well hey, you’ve just got to use force and kick ass to teach them a lesson and if a few people die in the process, well that’s just tough ****.
As Blair himself kept repeating back in the days when people actually believed a word he said, it’s all about “Education, education, education.
Teacher Tony has taught Britain’s next generation well. Violence, apparently, solves everything. Even if the recipient of that lethal violence is entirely innocent of whatever it was that pissed you off in the first place.
Blair glibly condemns those teenagers involved in gun crime as having “complete disregard for the Law whilst conveniently ignoring the contemptuous disregard he himself had for International Law in 2003. The word “hypocritical simply doesn’t do it justice.
If our leaders have no respect for the basic rights of others to live in peace, and can get away with the entirely unjustified attacking of innocent people with apparent impunity, why on earth should we be surprised when our children display the self-same aggressive and anti-social behaviour?
The answer, of course, is that we shouldn’t. The surprise, if there is one, is that it isn’t even more widespread. Give it time, though, give it time. There is so much more to come from Blair’s Britain.
My hatred for Blair and the sordid deceitful depths to which he and his cabal of toadies has sunk this once proud and decent country is well known on this web site. I have never been able to sum it up quite as eloquently, or as passionately, however, as the following excerpt from Neil Mackay’s brilliant “The War on Truth.
Read it and weep.
“The kind of lies this government tells are like a virus – like HIV. They weave themselves into the fabric and DNA of society, corrupting it, distorting it. Black is white, and up is down, and left is right. These lies are an abuse – an abuse of you and me and the society we live in. If you play with someone’s mind enough, eventually they will see the world in a different way – in a back-to-front, crazy way. The lies that our leaders tell us day in and day out have made us see the world the wrong way around.
If we see the world upside down, then our whole lives are lived on a false premise; our very existence becomes a sick joke. Our leaders, by lying to us, are robbing us of the reality of the world around us and stealing the truth from us – the one thing that each person should have an inalienable right to. The thoughts that we think after our minds are poisoned by the nonsense that our leaders spin for us bear no relation to reality. We see the world through a glass darkly – and the glass has been darkened by our Prime Ministers and Presidents lying to us and telling us that 2+2=5.
British soldiers are being drawn ever deeper into this terrible conflict; in Fallujah, a city was emptied by the Americans and Iraqi bodies were left to be eaten by cats and dogs in the streets; the insurgents kill daily; suicide bombers blow up lines of men waiting to join the police; US forces shoot dead injured combatants instead of taking them prisoner; our civil liberties are ripped up at home in the name of security; racism, hatred and fear become the common currency of day-to-day civil discourse.
How can we make any sense of any of these events – and events yet to come – if we have no context in which to understand them? If our framework for interpreting these events is based on lies then we cannot find the right answers to the right questions. To live in a world constructed out of someone else’s lies leaves each one of us unable to even identify what the right questions which we should be asking in the first place are. Our leaders have exploited us ruthlessly, and worse, they have corrupted our minds and our souls, making us culpable in their mass murders. Their ultimate sin is that they twisted our minds, took reality and the truth from us, fed us a diet of lies which infantilised us and made us dependent on them. Their lies were designed to frighten us (remember the one about us being only 45 minutes from destruction – that was a lulu wasn’t it?), stifle us, keep us quiet, meek and bewildered; our fear helped further their ends and keep them in power and us powerless. Trapped inside their lies, we are unable to challenge them. The truth, as the old saying goes, really will set you free.
George W Bush won four more years as the ruler of the United States, and Tony Blair was re-elected as the Prime minister of my country. America and Britain are drugged with lies and fear and confusion. That’s why both countries made such terrible electoral mistakes. It’s time now to wake up and throw the whole lying, filthy crew out. Forget Labour and forget the Tories, and forget the Democrats and the republicans – they all backed this war. Let’s look elsewhere for leadership. Let’s look for vision, independence of thought, humanity, honesty and integrity. If we don’t then we may as well shred the true concept of democracy. Democracies don’t exist through the rule of lies and fear and stagnant party politics.
Democracies thrive and become great through openness and freedom of thought. Our democracies need governments which treat their citizens as equally as those who have been voted into power and given the temporary honour and job of enabling us, the people, to live good and decent lives. They are not meant to be our leaders, they are meant to be our enablers.
Tony Blair has long told us that Britain has a “blood price to pay in this war; that the British people have to bleed collectively for a war he created out of a fog of his own lies. He asked us to send our sons and daughters and mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters to Iraq to kill and be killed for his deception.
Well, there IS a blood price that can be paid for his lies. And here’s how this particular debt can be honoured: if Tony Blair won’t send his own children who have reached military age to kill and die in Iraq, then he should do the decent British thing. He should call into the Ministry of Defence one day soon and ask if he can borrow a revolver from one of his generals. When he gets his hands on it, he should make sure that there is one bullet left in the chamber and then he should go back to Number 10 Downing Street. On his return he should write an apology to the British, American and Iraqi people on his hands and knees, with tears of contrition running down his face. He should then lock the door of his office and, like the good Christian he says he is, send himself to his maker for his final judgement. I sincerely hope his God forgives him. Because I can’t.
