terrorism Archives - Call me cynical, but...

IT’S A FREE COUNTRY
When was the last time some cheeky little twat answered his accusers with the sentence “it’s a free country”. We used to say it regularly if anyone tried to stop us from doing what we wanted.

Is it still a free country?

I think, as children, we had an instinctive feeling for ‘common law’, at least for right and wrong. Therefore, we knew if we didn’t cause harm to anyone, then most things were okay. We went where we wanted, and if we didn’t steal or damage anything, we felt justified in doing whatever we liked.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying we never nicked or broke anything, and fuck, we lit a lot of fires. But it was the principle that ’it’s a free country!’ that was important to us. It somehow gave us a feeling of pride.

Does the sight of armed police make you feel secure? It scares the shit out of me

Nowadays there is not that sense of freedom. Coppers with guns wandering around our cities, CCTV in every shop and on every corner. Strict searches upon entering any large public event. I don’t know about you but I feel violated – it lowers the human spirit. Bit by bit we are having our basic freedoms removed, all in the name of terrorism.

What makes a terrorist?

Call me cynical, but what is a terrorist?
Would we even have terrorists, if we weren’t exporting our ‘freedoms’ and stealing other’s resources? Why does anyone become a suicide bomber? How pissed off do you have to be, to strap explosives to your body and blow yourself up? Or to fly a plane into a skyscraper – if you choose to believe that story.

Who funds the terrorists?

There is more and more information coming out that the major backers of terror are the West’s own security services. https://www.theguardian.

Is this man a war criminal or a terrorist or both?

Photo by Paul Morse,

State terror

Now that’s what I call a terrorist. Yes, and he’s a war criminal too

‘Terrorism, the systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective. Terrorism has been practised by political organisations with both rightist and leftist objectives, by nationalistic and religious groups, by revolutionaries, and even by state institutions such as armies, intelligence services, and police.’
https://www.britannica.com/topic/terrorism

By that very definition, this is exactly what the British Government have been doing for hundreds of years, both domestically and abroad.
For example:

‘Between 1728 and the devastating hunger of 1845-50, there were 28 artificial famines in Ireland that cost the lives of half a million Irish. Throughout this period, Ireland had produced enough food to feed her native population twice over, but almost all of it was being exported, under force of arms, by the English.’ https://www.sott.net/article/245044-The-British-Empire-A-Lesson-In-State-Terrorism

They probably think they are being patriotic

What are the causes of terrorism?

‘British military officers and Special Forces are reportedly training – in Jordanian territory – foreign-backed militants to step up their campaign of terrorism across Syria. Ample evidence shows that the mercenaries, recruited from various countries including Libya, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, are covertly supplied with weapons and training from the US, Britain and France via the conduits of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey.’ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33327.htm (it appears this article is no longer available)

However, you don’t have to look far to find British and U.S. involvement in supporting terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_involvement_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War . It may seem that these actions of the British Government are conducted far from home, but do you believe they would never do such a thing in the U.K.

Controlled opposition is the way the powers that be, maintain mastery over both sides in a dispute. They set up and support all the protagonists in any major confrontation, Whatever the outcome, they win. Call me Cynical again, but are the so-called terrorist groups just pawns in a sick geopolitical game?

Anyone remember free speech?

Now you don’t even have the right of freedom of speech. Even if what you are saying is absolutely true, you do not have the right to say it in case it offends someone. I’m with Steve Hughes on this one.
No-one was ever harmed by being offended. There are wars, famines, genocide, unlawful imprisonment, the bombing of civilians etc. happening around the world right now, and people are more concerned about having hurt feelings.

Seriously

What sort of society do we live in that takes itself so seriously that we can’t take the piss out of each other? It’s tragic.

It’s very important in human culture to have a close friend who is a complete fucking idiot. Every group of chums should have at least one shit-for-brains among them. If you don’t think you have a total fuckwit amongst your friends, then maybe you should look in the mirror – I think he might be there.

Almost all humour is at someone’s expense. I believe that’s because we are human, and modern humans are a particularly amusing but stupid species. How often would we chuckle in a day if we didn’t laugh at each other? Whether it’s how daft we behave, or talk, or dress, or misunderstand etc. etc.

Sometimes we amuse people intentionally, and on other occasions, it’s an embarrassing accident. Often, it is the most inappropriate and disgusting things which we find the funniest.

Is it a bad thing to be laughed at if it makes others happy?

Surely what is important about what a person says, is the intent behind the words. If you are bullying or intending to cause or incite actual harm to someone – don’t do it you prick.But if you’re just expressing an opinion, or maybe even having a laugh…

TECHNOLOGY
How has technology improved our lives? Of course it has in some ways, but are the trade-offs we have had to make, really worth it? I wonder if modern technology is more of a double barrelled shotgun, than a double edged sword – with one of the barrels pointing right back in our face.

Is the internet a benefit to our children?

Bizarre pornography – once seen never forgotten- piped straight into the subconscious of very young children, via their phones, maybe on the way to school. If it’s particularly strange or weird, then it is immediately shared with friends. Boys especially seem to have an appetite for viewing the unusual and the extreme.

Social insecurity

Social media seems to mean social pressure, social pressure becomes bullying – and bullying makes people feel diminished – thereby causing loss of dignity and self-worth.
Some young people self-harm, and even go as far as suicide.
Some have other mental health issues., such as anorexia, paranoia, etc.
Some get into drink or drugs.
Some become bullies themselves.
Some withdraw from social interactions.

The list goes on, of the damage inflicted by people on each other, via social media. Upon the vulnerable, and especially children.

Yes, all of these social ills existed before Facebook etc., but they did not occur on anything like the scale that they are happening now.

There are of course many other related pressures contributing to the malaise.

Chat rooms

You’ve got chat rooms and forums on any subject you can imagine, – some from the depths of the sickest minds. Many of these are too dark and twisted for me to even think about. Please forgive my lack of research on the matter. There are things in the world that I just don’t want to know.

I see you’re wearing that little rabbit onesie like I told you

We don’t need to go int the details of what practices may be promoted, but when you consider a bunch of perverted sickos in a chat room, egging each other on, cross-pollinating their most abominable ideas, it must be truly horrifying.
Because they are sick bastards, they try to infect our pure and – am I going too far here? – innocent minds, with their disgusting disseminations. But enough of Hollywood.

Caught in the web

The world wide web (sinister name) created hackers, and hackers created the need for cyber-security; cyber-security systems are then established, and hackers are used to test their effectiveness. Then more – unauthorised/black hat – hackers, hack the system, creating a data breach. How can any of our data ever be truly secure? The next big information violation is only a couple of clicks away.

It seems like hackers have the same effect on the internet, as terrorists have on society. They are both, the cause of, and excuse for, ever-increasing security. Which basically ends up as more and more authority figures telling us they have the right to search us and spy on us and coerce us into agreeing to their terms (and conditions). Bit by bit we are giving up our freedom and privacy. Well, I don’t fucking like it.

So what am I going to do about it? Write an angry blog? Yeah! That will make all the difference.

Freedom to do as you’re told

I don’t go abroad, or to clubs or gigs, because I do not give anyone the authority to search me. It’s a matter of principal. I suppose it is sad really, that my lifestyle is curtailed by the establishment’s enthusiasm to clamp down on my freedom – although to be honest, it might just be my age.

It also appears that hackers like terrorists may be working for, or against our security services. It becomes very difficult to know who is on who’s side, and to be honest, if anyone is actually on ‘our side’ at all.

Optimistic memories

It takes longer today, to buy a packet of baccy or to put petrol in the car than it did 20 years ago. I thought we were supposed to have flying cars by now. That never happened, did it?

We were led to believe that we would have robot servants in the future; now it seems like we’re more likely to have robot masters, any day soon.

Records were always more functional than c.d.’s. C.d.’s were meant to be indestructible – what a load of shite. Mine were always skipping or sticking, and sometimes even auto-remixing, and unfortunately, a sharp knock didn’t remedy the problem, as it did with a record player. We were certainly bent over and colonically pounded when we replaced our records with c.d.s.
Now, when you buy music you don’t get anything tangible at all, it’s a digital download. What’s the use of that – you can’t even butter toast or play frisbee with it.

Much of the music doesn’t need to be of decent sound quality, because most people – particularly the young – listen to compressed music files, through mediocre headphones or poor quality speakers from a phone or computer.

Mindlessly non-judgemental

Most of the main-stream music has very strange videos to go with it – for playing on M.T.V., YouTube and the like. Many of the images and behaviours in these videos appear to be conjured directly from Aleister Crowley’s darkest fantasies. https://allthatsinteresting.com/aleister-crowley.

God knows what horrific phantasmagoria are conjured up in the imaginations of the open-minded young people who watch these videos. Maybe they would be safer if they weren’t quite so mindlessly nonjudgemental.

To be honest, what would I know. I avoid these videos, and most pop music sounds shit to me, in fact, many popular songs make me feel actual physical pain when I hear them.

The music you listen to has a massive effect on the way you feel, including your emotional and mental wellbeing. Miserable depressing music surely creates a mood of depression and despair in the listener. There may be a time and a place for all music, but if you listen to angry or depressing music all day long, it’s going to make you angry or depressed.
It’s a good job I don’t listen to angry music, or fuck knows what I’d be like.

It’s no surprise that kids in the big cities are going around stabbing each other, if they are growing up listening to grime. I think I’d be stabbing my own ears if I had to listen to much of it.

I know that certain music has been played at high volume, as a form of torture for suspected terrorists, by the U.S. military in Guantanamo for example. My daughter regularly tortures me with stuff like Post Malone or Sam Smith, and it would only take a few bars of Nicki Minaj, or Elton John, for example, to make me betray my country. https://mic.com/articles/87851/11-popular-songs-the-cia-used-to-torture-prisoners-in-the-war-on-terror#.VpKeKdXtc

So has technology improved our lives? Well if you are a child grooming, porn peddling, social bully, who enjoys hacking computers, and watching fucked-up music videos, you must be loving it right now. Particularly if you hate freedom and good music. For the rest of us, technology is more of a mixed blessing.