It's still indiscriminate hypocricy though. Many thousands more are killed and silenced by cluster bombs and bullets, buried under warped truth. History repeats itself like a curse. Do we seek to stoke the flames of reactionary forces and division.Terrorists kill, Governments kill, what is the difference? Civilisation, oh look at us, aren't we clever, still playing the old blame game, finding bullshit redemption.Undercover of the night, bodies lost at sea. Evil bogeyman killed, people rejoice and the killing carries on regardless.
Anyway here's a quote
" I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not recognise in the death of one. Not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. "
- Martin Luther King
Anyway,
I'm not going to surrender to hate, I believe in a future one day soon where love will overtake. Another word is ours for the taking.
Even sadder news with the death of Mr Ira Cohen, freed from the fetters of hope. A poet and universal visionary , filmaker, bookmaker, friend to many,disciple of eclectism, shaman of insight, R.I.P.
and the dust so fine
these are suggestions
wave on wave
reach out
each ring
will be upon the wind
some of us forever invisible
carried on honeyed breeze
far in to oceanic jungle
staring out
as mountains erupt
volcanic storms
sway forever, forever , forever
Link to wiki entry on Ira Cohen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Cohen
Song to Nothing -Ira Cohen
And surely we will die without memory
coming to cold in the shadow of space
& if it isn't too late
for the star to love you
spraying the sky with whispers
attuned to galaxies hungry for flame
And if the togue of night sings
of Albino winos
till the morning light shafts
the doorway
then surely we will die tonight
faceless at the White Gate
sharing the smoke
with ancient shapes in future garb
and you stand somewhere there
on the other side
feeding on the painof dreamlessness
Where from the misty morning of
white shadows
& the unresisting need to destroy?
Samuel, Samuel, I beg it may be forgiven
that they may be driven
out of the black into the white
Only let the dazzle remain
for gamblers to surprise
the stragecic diamond, the throne
of compressed bone
in the unshored dark
where only light can forgive
& your mind is singed
Embers of echoes in the vastness
disguise the yearning to burn blind eyes
in arrogant displays of feeling?
Running wild these beasts will feast
on the newborn kind
for surely we will die tonight
unless we learn to ignore
what the others live for
on the other side of morning
& the skin of Nothing left by the same summer
masks the faceless wanderer
O let it happen
this wierd to discover
the shape of Beauty in everything extreme
for surely we will die tonight
whether we will or whether we
dream
O Samuel, forgive the dreamer
forgive the dream
The Song of Nothing is your lullabye.
It is kind of interesting that the U.S. are saying this was the result of a six year operation.
ReplyDeleteOne that then results in a murder (why not an arrest?); and a murder apparently much celebrtaed by those who still mourn the death of their own loved ones.
It's a funny old world.
Or should I say, a shit one?
However, the Taliban - and of course a pretty tenuous link was made between them and Bin Laden, who was a Saudi, not an Afghan, but of course that's something, mainly through manipulative media thought control, that people forget - are truly evil.
Fascistic beyond belief; they need taking out; if Obama pulls out of Afghanastan on the premise that Bin Laden is dead, he will be leaving the Afghan people to a fate far worse than the likes of Saddam Hussein or Gadaffi ever imposed upon their own people.
Just a thought.
I have them occasionally. roy
your thoughts are always well put. We should also remember who funded the fascistic Taliban in the first place. Initially they were welcomed by a country torn apart by warring mujaideen warlords.
ReplyDeleteLest us not forget that back in the 1980s the C.I.A actively supported and financed them. Life in a vacuum.
Then the good old U.S.A have a habit of making common cause with dubious regimes across the globe.
Perhaps they should spend more time looking in thei own backyard. It is indeed a funny shit world.
xx
Yes, you're right.
ReplyDeleteReagan loved the Taliban when they assisted with U.S. agenda.
Kissenger: 'America has no perminent friends or enemies, only interests.'
Sounds like a typical piece of thought control fed to Winston Smith, et al.
However, and it doesn't matter who created, financed, encouraged or radicalised The Taliban; they're cunts, you know; they'd slit our degenerate, subversive throats, that's for sure, mate.
Anyway. Must catch up on the dog & bone sometime.
Don't forget to vote, now! roy
yeah, they wouldn't allow me to be sitting here with my la di da, i'd be long gone. speak soon....
ReplyDeletestill undecided 'bout tomorrow.xx