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Anarchy of the Rich

Lording it | 09.09.2002 13:57

The anarchy of the rich, who do what they want, at the expense of the poor, must stop!

When the Fabian Society’s Tony Blair was chosen by the Bilderberg Group to lead New Labour into a resounding election victory, John Smith, a man of integrity who had been instrumental in regaining the old Labour party’s popularity, had to be disposed of. Coincidentally, he died of a heart attack, but he always was an obliging fellow.

Then, after seventeen tedious years of Conservative greed, a carefully crafted news expose of sleaze within their ranks, sealed their fate. A couple of lesser Tories were publicly humiliated and took the rap for John Major’s Cabinet. The stage was now set for the ‘People’s Prime Minister’ – Tony - under the banner – “things can only get better” but they didn’t. They remained exactly the same, as the cronies continued “business as usual” implementing the same privatisation policies that Thatcher had begun.

Everything but our excrement is owned, but the Methane Corporation has it’s eye on that. So things, inevitably, could only get worse and they did, much worse! Blair dragged our armed forces into conflicts in Serbia, Sierra Leone and Afghanistan, where our troops were responsible, with the US, for thousands of civilian casualties and assisted their Northern Alliance allies to torture and murder thousands of Taliban fighters, against all the rules of war, written in the Geneva Convention.

The people who voted for New Labour, because they still think we live in a democracy and are against going into another war with Iraq, will have to be placated by the government, or terrified into compliance. Hence the headlines; ‘Britain could be nuked in a month’ The only support Tony Blair has received for a military campaign is from the opposition leader, Ian Duncan Smith - how unsurprising - considering they work towards an identical goal, Globalisation.

So what is the alternative to our present political system, which offers two choices; one or none. We need a revolution - not an engineered revolt to replace one despot with another, but people power! Take back your right to govern your own affairs, withdraw all support for the established institutions, which cream off vast profits while the social fabric of our nation, is in tatters.

Lording it

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I agree with your cynicism but get real!

09.09.2002 14:31

I agree with your cynicism but if you really want people to take your text seriously you have to rethink the implied 'assasination' of john smith - i mean, come on, get in the real world!

Please all those people that are not paranoid, post texts to this site so it does not get engulfed with mad ideas that i can only guess are there to put off the general public. I mean if they just see these kinds of posts then they will not take the rest with the seriousness it needs.

matilda


mathilda yur the fantasist

09.09.2002 15:12

matilda, like jews who were led passively to their slaughter, refusing to believe that such a fate awaited them, 'this can't be happening, its too horrific to be true, noone can be so cruel and babaric' were their cries as they were lined up along the edge of the pits. anything can happen, the greed and selfishness of our rulers and those with power knows no boundaries or limits. let us say that the main reason hitler murdered millions of jews was purely for greed, the bodies were robbed, of jewels, of their homes, of even their teeth. Greed and power are ultimately the roots of all evil, and those in power will do anything to keep their power, status and wealth.

chief cuntstable colin crapporn


The problem with conspiracy theories ....

09.09.2002 15:21

.. is that they flatter the ability of the powerful to decide the path of world history, and understimate the capacity of the weak, or mere chance, to shape outcomes.

Blair is a self-righteous, worker-hating, brown-noser of wealth and power, but he's not exceptional, or he wouldnt be where he is. He is representative of a certain element of the British middle classes. I think it is more helpful to try to understand where people like him come from, than to play parlour games with conspiracy theories (Bilderberg/Trilateral Commission/ the Masons/ the Pope/ Prince Philip and the Illuminati etc. etc. etc.).

I don't think that Neil Kinnock, or John Smith or indeed our friend Gordon Brown would have done radically different things when in power. It is the curse of generals to always fight the last war, and for the politicians who took control of labour in the 1980s, all they have been doing ever since is to not lose the 1983 election again: all their sucking up to businessmen and to the United States is ultimately an extended reaction to the trauma of that defeat.

Its pleasant to shout 'revolution' after a pint or spliff or two, but if you are serious about the world you will know that this is not on the agenda. We need to build the resistance to the terrorism of capital and imperialism, and this will depend on understanding, and forming links with many people drawn from the world which produced Tony Blair

Learn, teach, make allies: ORGANIZE

Mikhail Bakhunin


How could I disagree with Micky Bakunin?

09.09.2002 19:34

Mathilda is spot on in being wary of 'conspiracy theories' which only serve to devalue our ideas (even if they occasionally prove to have been right all along!).

Trouble is, the boss class aren't as conspiritorial as we sometimes like to think, and their sytem of exploitation and grand scale robbery is actually very open and transparent for those who choose to see it.

Bakunin, is being pretty sound as well - though I think you're slipping a bit here comrade. Revolution is always on the agenda. It just isn't always easy to see - particularly as we lack a strong culture of resistance in our class.

Our short term strategy then, needs to be the building of this culture of resistance (with a view to fulfilling our longer term goals of revolution and fully fledged anarchist communism).

Serge Forward


Everything is a conspiracy

09.09.2002 22:16

Thanks for taking the time to read my "off-the-cuff" remarks, and reply. John Smith himself was a Bilderberg Member, as is Brown, Blair, Major and Thatcher before that. So is Prince Philip and many other high ranking Lords and Leaders. That is not a theory but a fact, and that they hand-pick political pawns and formulate global policy is self-evident. Who did Blair report to immediately after meeting Bush at Camp David? The Royals at Balmoral! How lucky his "annual visit" was due, - not conspirators in oil wars, just coincidence, naturally. As for revolting, got a better idea?

Lording it