When the Pot Calls the Kettle Black
Ahmadinejad, a nice sounding name, very nice considering he was the head torturer of Evin prison. Evin, another nice sounding name, and for decades torture HQ of the Iranian state. The Shah built it, may God bless the bastard. The elite cadre of the Shah's military state, highly trained in intelligence gathering methods, a euphemism for attaching electrodes to people's genitals, rape, physical and psychological annihilation of people, whose only crime is thinking for themselves. Thousands have died there. And Ahmadinejad was the head honcho there for years. Well, why doesn't that surprise?
Bush, not a nice name. A 'War President', according to himself. I wonder what that means! Does it perhaps indicate that he sees his administration being centred on military activity? At any rate he is the leader of the 'Free World'. And he is on a crusade against the Muslim's stealing his thunder...
Let's see, their track records are surprisingly similar. They are both of the fanatical mind set. They both regard the military as their spiritual home, they are both deeply devout to their version of their respective religions, and regard their holy books as containing full and absolute instructions towards methods of government, they both have a penchant for secret prisons for dealing with their perceived enemies. Christ I gotta stop now, I feel a certain nausea coming over me. You know that sick feeling you get when you realise just how fucked you are?
This pair have taken it upon themselves to battle it out and see whose warped version of the World will end up succeeding.
What we more or less normal people think is that Ahmadinejad is kind of like us, normal(ish). He is not. He wants war, he wants the Americans to attack and bomb the crap out of his people. He believes that there has to be a war, and much death and fire, for the cleansing spirit of Islam to achieve world domination, as the primal faith. Giving a man like that ultimatums will not dissuade him, it is an encouragement to the man to push things even further. Bush does not really need an excuse to bomb the crap out of Iran. He lied about Iraq and got away with it, why should he shirk from simply attacking Iran for trying to carry out its sovereign imperative?
Well here is my suggestion to my countrymen. Crawl under a heavy table. Put your head between your knees. Bend down as far as humanly possible. And kiss your ass goodbye. Nice vote for leader there, but I guess he would have won anyway. Bush style.
Bush, not a nice name. A 'War President', according to himself. I wonder what that means! Does it perhaps indicate that he sees his administration being centred on military activity? At any rate he is the leader of the 'Free World'. And he is on a crusade against the Muslim's stealing his thunder...
Let's see, their track records are surprisingly similar. They are both of the fanatical mind set. They both regard the military as their spiritual home, they are both deeply devout to their version of their respective religions, and regard their holy books as containing full and absolute instructions towards methods of government, they both have a penchant for secret prisons for dealing with their perceived enemies. Christ I gotta stop now, I feel a certain nausea coming over me. You know that sick feeling you get when you realise just how fucked you are?
This pair have taken it upon themselves to battle it out and see whose warped version of the World will end up succeeding.
What we more or less normal people think is that Ahmadinejad is kind of like us, normal(ish). He is not. He wants war, he wants the Americans to attack and bomb the crap out of his people. He believes that there has to be a war, and much death and fire, for the cleansing spirit of Islam to achieve world domination, as the primal faith. Giving a man like that ultimatums will not dissuade him, it is an encouragement to the man to push things even further. Bush does not really need an excuse to bomb the crap out of Iran. He lied about Iraq and got away with it, why should he shirk from simply attacking Iran for trying to carry out its sovereign imperative?
Well here is my suggestion to my countrymen. Crawl under a heavy table. Put your head between your knees. Bend down as far as humanly possible. And kiss your ass goodbye. Nice vote for leader there, but I guess he would have won anyway. Bush style.
posted by FLUX at 1:26 PM
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So basically they both want war.
Bush needs an excuse and Ahmadinejad will quite happily give him one.
It's a shame that the only people who suffer as a result of whatever is going to happen will not be Ahmadinejad or Bush, it'll be the innocent people who have absolutely no say in this whatsoever!!
Hi ED
Yeah, too right. It's like I'm always saying on this blog. They make their high handed speeches and take their pre-packaged actions, from the safety of their bastions, while we the poor bloody infantry, pay with our blood. If you look at it seriously you'll find very few of the 'average' people in the world ever cause any of this or want it to be caused. We may follow like sheep where they lead us, but we never actively seek it. The proportion of those who are creating mayhem is tiny compared to the bulk of news we hear about them. Every time Bush or any other of the assholes winds up the freaky-deaky propoganda machine about some country as being behind terrorism or some such crap, you have got to ask yourself 'What's really going on there? What do they have that makes our leader want to do them down?!'. I said it ages ago right here, the end target of all this feverish military/political activity/rhetoric was always Iran. You don't have to be a seasoned strategist to look at an atlas and work it out. I don't think it's accidental that Ahmadinejad became leader. There are idiots in Iran who think there should be a war, that if the infidels come for us we'll whip them out. Really, they think that! Ahmadinejad was dismissed as a dangerous idiot, when he said Israel should be wiped off the map. That's only half true. He is dangerous, but he is no idiot, he wants this. He is trying his hardest to bring about his version of the Armageddon. Just like Reagan believed that his role on earth was to carry out God's plan for the final destruction of the USSR (read Evil Empire or The Empire of the Antichrist, number of the beast and all that good shit). It said so right there in the Bible.
What we tend to forget is that there are fanatics in every religion. They are not so dangerous on their own, but as a group and especially in leadership, they are totally deadly. Historically the list is huge, from Ghengis to Bush and Ahmadinejad there is a direct, uninterrupted line of these bastards. The very rare great and good leaders we've ever had were very quickly done away with, witness Alliende or Sun Yatsen. Look at Kennedy. Everyone loves him and adulates him to this day. The guy brought the world to the edge of extinction at least twice in the short time he was president. People have even started saying that Thatcher wasn't so bad after all, It's like we suffer from continual lapses of memory.
In the end I guess I have to backtrack some and say that maybe it is our fault. We are basically responsible for buying into their crap, or even doubting for a second that they are lying, and have other agendas. Chomsky has been arguing the point for years, if they really want to uphold the law, and fight for freedom, why don't they ever attack countries that have nothing to offer, no rewards to reap. What makes Saddam worse than Ibn Saud? What made the Shah a good and admirable man and made Khomeini an evil bastard? They sold Iran to the dictators for oil, and now they are targeting it for the same commodity. Nuclear power, well balls to that, what about Pakistan, India, Israel, Korea, what makes them less dangerous than Iran? They have already got the plan of attack on Iran fully worked out and rehearsed for some four or five years. It could even be as far back as the hostage crisis. Fuck who knows, it may even have been a scenario as far back as WWII.
Point is simple though. They are playing their games for power. Which usually equals a lot of dead, lost, maimed and displaced civilians. We are the ones that always pay the price for them, and not just with taxes either.
ZARDOZ SAYS:
YOU LAY IT ON QUITE THICK
MY BROTHER. YET TRUTH PREVAILS
IN YOUR ANALYSIS,,
SO LETS SEE WHAT CAN WE DO,, ?
THIS IS THE QUESTION ?
ANY IDEAS...?
=== Z ===
Hi Z
Ideas... Hmm! Yeah well there's world wide revolution. But we know only too well what happens to those. Some power hungry bastard or group of bastards always takes over popular revolution, if indeed there is such a thing to begin with. Witness the Iranian, Russian, Cuban (need I go on) revolutions.
How about popular education? Or real media transparency? Or genuine Democratic process? Who's going to institute them? Who's going to run them? Who indeed is going to plan and create them? Where is the will to do so?
As long as there is rampant Capitalism, that route is closed to us. In fact as long as we live in this set of parameters and with this set of base philosophies, we are stuck with what we've chosen to call the "Human Nature" factor. This simply rules that there are those who use and there are those who ARE used. The Law of the Jungle. We keep imagining a world that has moved above and beyond that, but we just can't seem to break the old habits. Is it Natural? Is it Genetic? Is it in fact INSTINCT? I don't know. I know though that there are some who are less prone to the greedy gene than others. But they say that "Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
I have fantasised about the possibility of power. The possibility of power going to one who is willing and able to use it for the greater good. Impossible doesn't even come close to describing the problem. I've wondered if power in the hands of individuals, or indeed groups must of necessity always turn to shit. And the sad answer so far has always been a resounding YES. There are no historical models that I've seen that tell us otherwise. And it is not always those who get power that screw it up. Sometimes when by chance we do have a genuine 'saint' gain power there are always elements that surround him and make sure he fails in his attempt to do good, or better things.
Many have called me a Marxist and a Lefty. Well I've laughed at them. I have said so again and again, I DO NOT ALIGN MYSELF WITH MURDERERS AND ABUSERS OF ANY DENOMINATION. How many so called Left-wingers have proved as vicious and destructive as their Right-wing counterparts?
No the solution lies where it has always been, in our hands. Us the ordinary people. They say charity begins at home, well so does change. We need to re-educate ourselves. We need to look to ourselves for the solution. I paraphrase Cassius' speech to Brutus, that the fault is in ourselves that we are underlings, not in our stars.
zardoz says:
DEEP..!
BUT cant help admire the optimism
in your written word,
you must be young,,
anyways , keep strong.
=Z=
http://sapphomanifesto.blogspot.com/
ριξε μια ματια , καποια στιγμη,
ΕΧΕΙ ΕΝΔΦΙΑΦΕΡΟΝ ΑΡΘΡΑ.
ΕΞΕΛΙΞΗΣ.
=Ζ=
Well Z,
Young would not be how I could be described. For your info, I am now just 46. What I have said is not a sign, sadly, of youthful idealism. It is the only solution I can see. Too long we've put our faith into political parties, religious leaders, snake oil men and fire-water hawkers. And they keep fucking it up like clockwork. And we keep coming back for more of their shit. As a species we seem bent on letting the shamans amongst us rule our fortunes. It is sad, to say the least. To paraphrase Shelly, Someday we'll rise like lions after slumber to break the chains that hold us under! Some hope.
zardoz says:
ok so were almost the same age
still there is light in us,
after all these years.
A..shelly MY HIGH SCHOOL
english teacher almost kissed me
when i first was called upon to
explain meanings.
Then he remembered he was the
football coach.
NICE to have someone of my own
perspectives out here on blog land
seems that life will end
for us someday ,, and wouldve
liked to have shown something for it
for next generations,,,,
little things get done,,,
and im proud of them,,,,
its the bigger picture that distress
my thoughts of the future ......
and the present of a medieval
slave situation ... that alone
little can be done.....
even though do try to be a good
example
== z ==
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