The Sacrificed, On War's Red Altar Lie.

      To mark Remembrance Day, with an abhorrence of war, and all those who plan, engineer and profit from its vile destructive power, two short passages from the recently re-discovered Political Essay by the young Percy Bysshe Shelley. One the first passage, the second is the last passage from the poem. 

DESTRUCTION marks thee! o’er the blood-stain’d heath
Is faintly borne the stifled wail of death;
Millions to fight compell’d, to fight or die
In mangled heaps on War's red altar lie.
The sternly wise, the mildly good, have sped
To the unfruitful mansions of the dead

Oppressive law no more shall power retain,
Peace, love, and concord, once shall rule again,
And heal the anguish of a suffering world;
Then, then shall things, which now confusedly hurled,
Seem Chaos, be resolved to order’s sway,
And errors night be turned to virtue’s day.

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AND BORIS SET FIRE TO THE TOILETS.

       Listening to Cameron spout his usual one dimensional response to the events unfolding in some of the English cities it was difficult not to laugh. Standing there in front of the world's press and stating that violence and criminality are unacceptable and will feel the full force of the law, he surely should have remembered a previous statement that he made;  "Things got a bit out of hand. We smashed the place up and Boris set fire to the toilets"

D Cameron,Oxford,1986.

 No doubt his violence and criminality was just a bit of jolly good fun. He also talks of responsibility of parents towards their children, does he and his millionaire cabinet not have a responsibility to those parents. The same parents that he is slashing their social services, educaution sytem, and privatising their health service and seeing millions condemnd to a life on the dole. What Cameron and his cabal fail to recognise is that when he talks of society there are in fact at least two. one in which he and his millionaire friends inhabit with all the comforts, security and opportunities that come with money in this capitalist system. Then there is the other society the one that they try to rule over, the disenfranchised, the disconnected, the struggling mass that see little opportunity, no security and with ever increasing fuel bills very little comport. Our millionaire over lords have no conception of what life is like in that other society, they can't unvisage the problems let alone come up with the answers and quite frankly, the don't give a shit as long as it doesn't threaten their comfort, wealth, security and opportunities.  

      As far as the events of the last few days are concerned, I feel that the posting that I put up on December 11 2010 after the students demonstration applies equally well in this situation: THERE IS NO LAW AGIANST SELF DEFENCE. 

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