4th july 2004
confrontation is a powerful word , the following links are photojournals of what happens when you go to try and confront your "enemy". as you will see from the pictures "the enemy" are nowhere to be seen , instead we are met time after time with a wall of police officers or riot squad heavies. as the anti-capitalist movement gains momentum the behaviour of the police has shifted accordingly. i always attend these events as a peaceful protestor and believe wholeheartedly that violence will solve nothing , non-violent direct action is the way forward everytime , yet increasingly i see strong arm tactics employed by the very people who are supposed to be there to protect us. our right to demonstrate is being pulled from under us at an alarming rate , we are now at a stage where you are liable to be violently attacked and incarcerated merely for voicing your beliefs , what stronger indication could there be of the impending fascist state that the powers that be are constructing to contain dissent. thier power base however is very fragile, it needs us to consume in order to feed itself. , it relies on our co-operation , our domesticity , our silence and our blind obedience. the day when we all stand up and say no will be the day they lose their delicate grip on the reins of control.
the final battle of the superpowers is being fought out right now , we the people are to be the victors , its inevitable , lets hope they , the aggressors , do the decent thing and give in peacefully rather than continue their futile battle to a bitter and bloody end.
15th august 2005
the beatings get heavier and the repression grows , how long since i wrote that first bit and look at us now , we live in fear of bombings , police are on the street shooting innocent people through the back of the head , peaceful protest is all bar outlawed and at the best at the whim of the police , our elected leader is recreating the days of the politburo , talk of i.d. cards is rampant and bush and his bunch of oil drunk bigoted warmongering rednecks have the reins again in the good old u.s.of a.
fuck , my house is older than their country.
how did this happen?
and just how heartening is it to know that their time is so limited?
their oil is all bar gone.
their economy is propped up on false promises.
and commucapitalist china is breathing down their neck at a rate of knotts.
its their war out there but its our children and parents that die for them.
they've totally screwed the environment , they are totally screwing the economy and they are totally screwing our innate faith in human nature , i know its a big step to take , but , trust me now , its for your own good ......
stop voting.
stop asking for permission.
stop expaining yourself.
and start doing what *you* want to do.
dunno where confrontation is going to take us next. the clandestine insurgent rebel clown army are one group doing it different , its up to you and me to expand and diversify.
7th december 2007
blair has gone and we have brown in his place and already his promises are beginning to crumble , the laws regarding socpa are , if anything getting more wide ranging and veteran peace campaigner brian haw is still coming in for stick , the u.s. has its sights fixed firmly on iran and the cold war is rearing its ugly head again. BAe systems are getting away with it. repeatedly. and now they've even been exposed as spies for their activities regarding the campaign against the arms trade. on top of this menwith hill is due another upgrade despite years of protest by the campaign for the accountability of american bases and lockheed martin are trying to secure the contract to run the next uk census.
the totalitarian state being spread worldwide by the rampant exponents of u.s. imperialism has a stronger grip than ever on world affairs and it seems inevitable that they will now no longer baulk at the thought of a military strike on *any* nation that dares stand in their way or disagree with them. the power to sway our own government in the uk has long since been irrelevant in the overall scheme of things and now only the american population can bring this monster to its knees.
for our part we can only continue to boycott those who we find immoral and distasteful , the list goes on and on , from nation states with vile foreign policy like the u.s. and israel , to the religious fundamentalists that try to take away our basic freedom and right to choose as do the regimes in the u.s. and iran and the taliban in afghanistan , down to the multinationals that will stop at nothing, not even rape , pillage and murder to plunder the last remaining wealth from our planet , esso , nestle , macdonalds , coca cola etc , to the shops which give us whatever we want as long as we want whatever they sell , tesco , asda, sainsburys etc.
vote on the street , vote with your money , vote with your feet.
and when you want to hold those to account who are supposedly elected to serve you them go to write to them.com and make your voice heard.
just because i don't believe in the vote it doesn't mean those that do are unaccountable.
and once again , to re-iterate , think global , act local
peace and anarchy.
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