Some years ago during a
demonstration in London, Churchill's statue had a piece of green turf
placed on its head, giving it a sort of punk hair cut look. The media
here referred to it as a shameful act of vandalism. However on
Wednesday 3 August The Times had a photograph of a a statute of Hosni
Mubarak which had been defaced. The comments were not a reference to
vandalism but how this shows the feelings of the people. When ever
any protests take place in this country the media always focus on
what violence they can find on the demonstrators side and portray the
authorities as the victims. Shift the scene to any country we are
meant to dislike and they reverse their point of view. The protesters
are always the victims and the authorities the purveyors of violence.
The usual double standards of the media, you simply can't believe what you read. We should know by now that authority is always the purveyor of
violence when ever the people decide to show their anger or even
dislike of what that authority is up to. Authority, i.e.; the state,
can only remain the authority by calling on force as soon as the
people wish change, more say in their affairs, or control of their
own lives. Until the people have control over their own lives and
remove the state, we will always have this confrontation of authority
and the desire of the people to be free, with the media backing up the authority.
