So the war atrocities are well underway. I would prefer to not even think about it, let alone rant about it, but there it is on the box incessantly.
Blair wants us to give our support to this sordid affair. His ‘address’ last night was even less convincing than usual, because he didn’t even seem able to muster his usual wild-eyed fervour. F**k you, Mr. Blair. Whether Saddam Hussein is stockpiling chemical weapons or not, we are the aggressor in this instance—we’re causing innocent deaths, the number of which our official propaganda will never disseminate. I can’t/won’t ‘support’ a cause that produces the hideous carnage we’re seeing all over our screens. I will sympathise with the troops who have do this filthy work; I hope most of them come out of it in one piece.
The Catch22 is obvious. Saddam is a vile scumbag, an oppressor, and no doubt an ever-present danger. How do you deal with that? I don’t know. I do know that Bush, with his apparent obsession with cleaning up his father’s unfinished business, and Blair, with his eye on being an Important Figure in history, certainly aren’t the people to come up with that answer. Might Makes Right is their language; stamp on the problem with force, and to hell with the needless damage that attends this action.
Nonetheless, protest is futile, and unfortunately dirtied by a yob element who gravitate to such things simply to make trouble. The public doesn’t have a voice in these matters. And it’s all well and good to say we’ll get rid of Blair next election, but who replaces him? The gung-ho Tories? The no-hope Lib-Dems? Unless his own party decides to give him the boot, credible alternatives don’t exist.
Oh well. We all know the world is turning to crap, right?
On other fronts, we got an offer for the house. Sadly, it was an abysmal offer, some £25,000 below the asking price! Another reason to be depressed!
ermmmm you might not give a s**t but I thought I’d have my say being as I’d read what you wrote.
Resistance may (for the time being) be futile but it is also necessary. We live in a democracy so we are responsible for the acts of our government – if we are silent when they do things we disapprove of then they can claim our consent.
Well they haven’t got my approval and if I have to shuffle through london on my saturdays to prove it then so be it.
I’ve been on every major antiwar demo since the movement started (apart from the pre-Afghanistan one for obvious reasons) I haven’t seen any serious trouble at any of them. Unless you count sitting down in the road or climbing trees naked. Eitherway, the best way to make sure the morons stay in a minority and don’t hijack the movement is to stay involved. Just shrugging your shoulders at the “bloody hippies and anarchists” is no excuse for apathy. If you actually care about this don’t just whine – do something.
really liked your blog. Hope you sell your house.
I appreciate the comments. I’m certainly not proud of my own level of apathy, to be honest. I hope putting my objections online counts for something, although probably not much. I don’t think the protests are futile as a gesture, anyway—but unfortunately it isn’t going to save lives, when we have leaders who don’t give a toss what anyone thinks.
My mother reads the Sun, much to her discredit! To be fair, she doesn’t take it seriously. Anyhow, she was reading me some of the disgraceful gung-ho trash they’ve been printing, and it really turned my stomach. I have a horrible feeling there are plenty of people around quite capable of being stirred up by such rubbish.
I get quite depressed and worried when I think about this too much.
Thanks again.
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