A recent headline
really shows the arrogance of the millionaires in the Westminster
Houses of Hypocrisy and Corruption, it states “Politicians condemn
Olympic strike threat”. This is all about the leader of Unite
Union, Len McCluskey, stating that there could be industrial action
during the Olympics. His statement "I believe the unions, and
the general community, have got every right to be out protesting. –
If the Olympics provide us with an opportunity, then that's exactly
one that we should be looking at." seemed to have hurt their sensitivities.
Our elected
politicians never miss an opportunity to “condemn” any protest,
demonstration or industrial action taken by the ordinary people to
try to defend themselves against the savage attack being hurtled at
them by the said elected politicians.
Why should we
listen to them, the pay themselves excellent salaries and generous expenses,
secure for themselves wonderful pensions, get all sorts of perks and
not content with that, lots of them fiddle the system. While
wallowing in their unearned grandeur they state that there is no
alternative to “austerity”. Then they have have the audacity and
arrogance to tell us to take what they throw at us and accept our
poverty with humility.
Because the
corporate world wants to hold a mainly public funded extravaganza in
the hope of making even more money, and remembering the most cities
that hold the Olympics are bankrupted after the event, why should we
see it as some sacred festival, and restrain ourselves from defending
ourselves against facing a generation or more of poverty? When it
comes to defending ourselves the last people we should listen to are
the politicians. The last thing that will benefit the ordinary people
is a world wide corporate event that will make millions for
broadcasters like Sky and Virgin etc. make millions for sponsors, and
cost us the public, millions. We need a National Health Service, we
need an decent education system, we need pensions that give dignity
to our elderly, we need nurseries, we need libraries and we need a
host of social services, we do not need an Olympic corporate money
spinner.
needs mean we are weak and insecure
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have you ever looked up the definition of anarchy
birds don't think
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We all have needs from the oxygen we breate to the food we eat from shelter from the elements to something other than food, does that make us all weak and insecure? if so then we are all weak and insecure, so what's your problem? All the needs I list are within this framework we live, and in trying to shift things in favour of social structures rather than commerecial events will be beneficial to us all and at the same time drive the society in the direction of social care and mutual aid. As for having looked up the definition of anarchy, the answer is yes. But I'm not idiot enough to think that I can live my life to the letter and spirit of the definition whilst living in a corporate world. I'm not one of those "purer that thou" type of anarchists. As for birds, I have never been able to find out what exactly they do think, perhaps you can enlighten me?
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