Now that all the 'snot and trane' over the Virginia Tech shooting last week is on the edge of being buried it is perhaps time to note that while suicide bombers have come to dominate the news to such an extent that they have become a cliché, we are increasingly faced with this random phenomenon of the suicide murderers.
Have you noticed how those who carry out learning institution massacres have a disconcerting tendency to end up dead? The Columbine kids for instance, and then the German kid that went amok in a German high school a while back and then there was the whacko that killed a bunch of Amish kids in a traditional one roomed school classroom, almost all the people who massacred an entire school in southern Russia and now on the campus at Virginia Tech where some allegedly insane South East Asian student apparently chains a group of kids in a classroom and then methodically guns them all down before chewing the barrel of his gun.
Interestingly the class that was the primary target was apparently also German and the Amish are of German extraction, I believe. Is this meaningful? I don't even know if it's true! The ultimate story that came out about the Amish child butcher was so absurd as to be downright improbable- Allegedly he was teased by little girls when he was a boy and now he came back to revenge himself on their daughters-. Yeah right!!!!!
What is true is that these gun slaughter fests always end with the perpetrator conveniently dead so that the living, in the form of a controlling authority, can present whatever story they want about the murderers without fear of contradiction. In this latest case the suicide murderer conveniently sends his life story to the media and achieves a bizarre posthumous notoriety, of a kind not accorded to the more 'respectful' suicide bomber- and definitely not accorded to the murderees.
So I see from the various reports and current headlines that the South East Asian American immigrant student who was responsible for the biggest mass murder in America since 9/11 was suffering from a broken heart [romantically] and killed his girlfriend allegedly and a.n.other. Then a couple of hours later he arrives at school in a highly organised state with at least two guns, illegal extended magazines and spare ammo, and other kit and proceeds to do a most professional job of taking out a room full of geeks, nerds and generally half-asleep partial adults, oh plus one convenient Holocaust victim just in case the incident fails to capture the frenzied imagination of a media starving for sensation.
He later publishes a carefully prepared hate-site piece on the Internet, in which he blathers about not being loved by the self-absorbed citizenry that surrounds him; and they therefore have forced him to commit this purging exercise. His diatribe is accompanied with rage photos of the acolyte in death's head mode ready to perform his brave act of talent cleansing.
Again - Yeah right!!!!!
Obviously fundamentalist Islamites are not the only zealots to use suicide to advance the cause of chaos and societal breakdown- given that the act of suicide itself is a negation of society.
The various knee-jerk reactions to this event are to discount the ever-ready 'Manchurian Candidate' thesis, so beloved of the conspiracy clique. Instead it becomes a modus for yet another assault on the rights of the citizen to defend itself from mad persons and the ever-encroaching State by promoting the civil disarmament agenda.
Two members of the Washington based 'McLaughlin group' almost came to blows over the issue of Gun rights, in that programme's heated debate in the aftermath of the slaughter. And a number of local chat shows and phone-in have presented the same gun control idea notwithstanding that so called gun free London has become a more gun violent city than New York, according to Pat Buchanan. [The BBC recently reported that London hospitals handled more than 4000 gun wounds last year. Various commentators have been noted over the past year referring to post-disarmament Britain being the most violent society in the Industrialised world.]
Gun crime in Britain is up about a thousand percent since private gun ownership was outlawed eight years ago, perversely proving Buchanan's hypothesis that when you outlaw guns only outlaws have guns. The anti-gun lobby refuses to see a correlation here. The politicians are also evasively avoiding the correlation; but that doesn't mean there isn't one.
I am not a proponent of the Manchurian Candidate theory either. I am more than aware that the world is full of whacked out maniacs, many of whom strap bombs to their bodies and blow people up. I also note that all the armour and protection against them in the world cannot prevent a determined wannabee murderer from executing what they believe to be their destiny.
What neither Buchanan nor his usually more voluble conservative associate Tony Blankly on the Mc Laughlin group panel manage to clarify was that the American Second amendment was specifically passed to make sure that the State authority never had a complete monopoly over the use of armed force. It was a unique act by what must be history's most selfless politicians- probably because they weren't politicians they were Statesmen- who knew that the self-serving, pork-gobbling, corruption prone politicians who infest the 21st century like the stench of an abattoir would later be around in spades.
The Second Amendment giving American citizens the right to bear arms was predicated on the premise that there are times in the affairs of the State when the citizen may need to rise up and protect the State from the actions of a usurper. Ironically George Bush would seem to have come closest to usurping the State than any politician in America's history: certainly those dangling 'chads' have a great deal to answer for.
It is doubtful that Robert Mugabe's military thugs could bully an armed populace with the impunity they demonstrate to overwhelm the disarmed populace of Zimbabwe, if it weren't for the less obvious fact that the populace of that brutalised place has been disarmed. The architects of the American Constitution did not intend that the USA should ever become the tool of aristocrats, autocrats, gangster liberationsits, or any other vested interest group. There are those who would argue that the USA is controlled by a bunch of competing vested interest groups. But the democratic rule: that the citizen has an inextricable and inalienable right to change the thieves that govern it intermittently, to give other thieves a chance to steal from the public trough, remains intact.
Of course there may be no smoking sub-text. It may be no more than what it seems to be: all random chaos - The exploding transformations that are taking place in the global economy have ripped open oozing wounds derived from personal greed, lust and avarice, crashed expectations and precarious judgements. Denied what they want - the 'me' generation throws its toys out of the cot and seeks five minutes of fame via the only medium capable of satisfying the itch.
The most recent machine-gun killer with c movie script aspirations apparently realised recently that he was a self-declared redundant and superfluous human: and so he took revenge against life.
Perhaps the real solution to the threat of random murderers is to develop a new type of digital user-restricted firearm that can only be fired for self-defence purposes; and issue them to all the planet's citizens: so anyone who finds themselves in danger of immanent murder by crazy or other people can whip out a lightweight electronically controlled derringer and defend themselves. Would our most recent forgettable South East Asian uprootee have managed to kill so many people had the room in which they were cornered contained thirty-four armed citizens?
Of course achieving this outcome would truly lie within the realm of an equally improbable future world order. Barring this, development, what we know is that the suicide murderers will strike again; and again; and conveniently each perpetrator will die: leaving only an enigmatic message of nihilistic futility.
So we find ourselves here in this opening decade caught within a new variation on the opening decades of the past half a dozen centuries with religious zealots wreaking terror in pursuit of a metaphysical agenda, random terrorists wreaking havoc in pursuit of a political agenda; and dysfunctional proto-humans committing murder because they can and because they want to.
Happy blogging
NiK
Monday, April 23, 2007
Sunday, April 1, 2007
All Fools Day: the Iranian Standoff
The present dilemma facing Iran and the so-called 'coalition-of-the-willing' must be giving all the 'New World Order' conspiracy theorists brigade a serious 'wet-panty attack', if I may use so indelicate a phrase. The central unasked question at this stage has to be why the Poms, whose troops [aka pawns] have been so presumptuously snatched by the big bad Iranians, have withheld their trump piece. Could it be because there is no trump piece: that the trump piece is part of an illusion? Or could they be holding the piece back long enough, to implement the next part of their 'evil' strategy; in the alleged 'global New world order conspiracy'- And what is this conspiracy?.
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Surely the 'trump' piece in this exercise has to be computer satellite images. Google allows us to see any part of the planet with Google earth these days. The Americans who presumably supply the material to Google earth are supposed to have the entire planet under constant surveillance. Why are there no satellite images of the ship the troops were allegedly inspecting at the time of their 'arrest' by Iranian border guards. Are there Satellite images? And are the Poms waiting for the situation to escalate to a new level of 'control' to play that hand? And how come the paparazzi haven't been baying for the photos.
Alternatively there may be no satellite pictures because the Poms were in the wrong place and the Iranians have fallen into a trap. Could it be that this whole exercise is for the sole purpose of 'doing a Lebanon/Serbia/Libya' [take your pick] on those seriously recalcitrant fellows the Iranians, whom everyone believes are building their own atom bomb and may will choose the Jihadist route of blowing the island of Cumbre Viega in the Grand Canaries and dumping an eighty metre tsunami right into their sworn enemy's eastern seaboard.[regular readers will know that I have predicted this event before and place it on the 23rd December 2012 to coincide with the Mayan prediction that the earth moves into a new age on that date].
A third option could be that there are no satellite pictures because the Americans own the satellites and either their department of Defence doesn't have the funds to access the photos from the agency controlling the picture taking equipment or they are choosing to squeeze the Poms, for some unexplained tactical reason, by refusing them access.
On the other hand I was watched a fascinating Carte Blanche programme a few weeks ago about the development of the so-called 'Islamic atom bomb'. During the course of the presentation the presenter made the astounding statement that the process of bomb development in Pakistan leading up to the infamous 'nuclear triple-double-tap' [to which I have referred in earlier blogs and which I regard as having making a significant, unacknowledged, contribution to the sudden apparent escalation in the 'global warming' issue] went on for eighteen years. During all that time it was undetected, apparently, by the supposedly super sleuth US Central Intelligence Agency- CIA.
We all know now that the impeccable source information that led to the Iraq invasion was a tissue of fabrications. We also read daily how the Taliban of Afghanistan are far from being vanquished because they are making daily incursions against the NATO invasion force.
We also remember that the Tsunami that hit the Indonesian city of Banda Acre a few years back was allowed to proceed unmolested because all the relevant authorities were on 'lunch' and couldn't take the calls. Who's to say that the guy taking the satellite shots of the shipping activity in what some media types have described as 'the most contentious waterway on the planet' went off to the lavatory while the action was taking place and forgot to put a tape in to replace the one that ran out. Maybe like that hotel in Jamaica where the late Pakistani cricket coach Whatisname was now 'allegedly' murdered a few weeks ago, the videotapes were so old and reused that the pictures turned out to be twenty years old and unusable.
Who knows.
What we do know right now though is that as at time of going to blog the Poms have produced no more compelling evidence in support of their case than some random ho hum GPS coordinates that are inherently meaningless to everyone, and are treated with the contempt they apparently deserve by the Iranians. Are they waiting for an appropriate opportunity to pull satellite imaging out of the bag- or does it not exist.
So what's the big 'conspiracy'.
For years we've been fed on the broad claptrap that Bush took out Iraq because he wanted to control their oilfields. Hello? They now produce a fraction of their pre-invasion flow. Some control- unless?
What if Bush and Blair are conspiring to force the world to adopt alternative fuels? Maybe they've bought shares in the new hydrogen fuel cell technology that, it is alleged, will replace fossil fuels as the fuel of choice by 2020. What if the stuff needs oil to be at about $100 a barrel to make the development of Hydrogen fuel feasible? Who knows? I do recollect that Bush referred to the immanence of the hydrogen fuel era in the State of the Nation address he made two weeks prior to the Iraq invasion.
So either the Poms are deliberately spoiling for the opportunity to whack the oil price to $100 a barrel; thereby accelerating the rate at which the world moves towards alternative fuels, while still convinced the idea is impossible; or they have been busted for taking liberties. Chaos theory which I broadly favour over conspiracy theories as you well know, favours the 'fuck-up' theory- The Poms were taking liberties, got careless, got busted and are now well and truly snookered: Iran 1 Poms nil. Phony Haire: Blusterman- blusted.
It is intriguing that Sky television after a day or two of sabre rattling rhetoric on the subject of the 'hostages' has now been running hours upon hours of 'remember the Falklands' nostalgia; reminding the Pom public what a good fight that was, just when everyone thought the old bulldog had lost its teeth.
One suspects that we are slowly moving to a denouement over the hostages. If the Pom leadership, specifically Blair, don't have the balls to take the incident to the ultimate conclusion: the savaging of Iran-then they should apologise for being silly with their troop deployment, eat shit and get the hell out of the Middle East before they are more humiliated than the Israelis were by their unbelievably incompetent assault on Lebanon last year.
Somehow I have difficulty in picturing even Phony, doing the latter. I never quite forget that these Blairites are of the same class who sacrificed one of their [Pomland's] most beautiful cities [Coventry] in November 1940 to protect the bigger picture. Wasn't it Haig who said something like they've got ten million and we've got eleven so they'll run out before we do? Let's just hope that whatever they decide to do is executed with far more competence than this current abortive Iraqi disaster.
Lyndon Johnson later made similar remarks about having more troops than the Vietnamese and look what happened to his theory. Currently I estimate that the Jihadists are running at about 50 dead per suicide bomber - this means that if there are forty million middle-eastern suicide bombers they could in principle eliminate the European Union. On the other hand perhaps if Iran had something substantive of their own to worry about they may become less involved in the Iraqi's affairs and the Iraqis could perhaps begin to get their own beast under control.
People who use people as bombs and as toys have to be put down and sometimes you need a firebreak to stop an oncoming bushfire. History has never been kind to people who lose courage and fail to take the steps they have to take to protect their interests- one only has to be witness to the current whining amongst one of our own home-grown former Possessor classes* to see the truth of that statement. The Jihadists are convinced they are on a sixth century rampage again, presenting the sacred words of the beloved prophet to the infidels without. Commercial logic suggests they should lose access to their oil for a decade and then have to compete with the new technologies for a slice of the fuel market. When people have too much ill-gotten wealth they lose sight of reality. Losing some or most of it might focus their minds on the current world and help them leave the next one for people who live on mountains and say things like: Troops die, villages die, trees regenerate- summer comes.
Happy blogging
* Refers to South Africans of Afrikaner descent who have just woken up to the fact that they are in a terminal squeeze to nowhere.
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Surely the 'trump' piece in this exercise has to be computer satellite images. Google allows us to see any part of the planet with Google earth these days. The Americans who presumably supply the material to Google earth are supposed to have the entire planet under constant surveillance. Why are there no satellite images of the ship the troops were allegedly inspecting at the time of their 'arrest' by Iranian border guards. Are there Satellite images? And are the Poms waiting for the situation to escalate to a new level of 'control' to play that hand? And how come the paparazzi haven't been baying for the photos.
Alternatively there may be no satellite pictures because the Poms were in the wrong place and the Iranians have fallen into a trap. Could it be that this whole exercise is for the sole purpose of 'doing a Lebanon/Serbia/Libya' [take your pick] on those seriously recalcitrant fellows the Iranians, whom everyone believes are building their own atom bomb and may will choose the Jihadist route of blowing the island of Cumbre Viega in the Grand Canaries and dumping an eighty metre tsunami right into their sworn enemy's eastern seaboard.[regular readers will know that I have predicted this event before and place it on the 23rd December 2012 to coincide with the Mayan prediction that the earth moves into a new age on that date].
A third option could be that there are no satellite pictures because the Americans own the satellites and either their department of Defence doesn't have the funds to access the photos from the agency controlling the picture taking equipment or they are choosing to squeeze the Poms, for some unexplained tactical reason, by refusing them access.
On the other hand I was watched a fascinating Carte Blanche programme a few weeks ago about the development of the so-called 'Islamic atom bomb'. During the course of the presentation the presenter made the astounding statement that the process of bomb development in Pakistan leading up to the infamous 'nuclear triple-double-tap' [to which I have referred in earlier blogs and which I regard as having making a significant, unacknowledged, contribution to the sudden apparent escalation in the 'global warming' issue] went on for eighteen years. During all that time it was undetected, apparently, by the supposedly super sleuth US Central Intelligence Agency- CIA.
We all know now that the impeccable source information that led to the Iraq invasion was a tissue of fabrications. We also read daily how the Taliban of Afghanistan are far from being vanquished because they are making daily incursions against the NATO invasion force.
We also remember that the Tsunami that hit the Indonesian city of Banda Acre a few years back was allowed to proceed unmolested because all the relevant authorities were on 'lunch' and couldn't take the calls. Who's to say that the guy taking the satellite shots of the shipping activity in what some media types have described as 'the most contentious waterway on the planet' went off to the lavatory while the action was taking place and forgot to put a tape in to replace the one that ran out. Maybe like that hotel in Jamaica where the late Pakistani cricket coach Whatisname was now 'allegedly' murdered a few weeks ago, the videotapes were so old and reused that the pictures turned out to be twenty years old and unusable.
Who knows.
What we do know right now though is that as at time of going to blog the Poms have produced no more compelling evidence in support of their case than some random ho hum GPS coordinates that are inherently meaningless to everyone, and are treated with the contempt they apparently deserve by the Iranians. Are they waiting for an appropriate opportunity to pull satellite imaging out of the bag- or does it not exist.
So what's the big 'conspiracy'.
For years we've been fed on the broad claptrap that Bush took out Iraq because he wanted to control their oilfields. Hello? They now produce a fraction of their pre-invasion flow. Some control- unless?
What if Bush and Blair are conspiring to force the world to adopt alternative fuels? Maybe they've bought shares in the new hydrogen fuel cell technology that, it is alleged, will replace fossil fuels as the fuel of choice by 2020. What if the stuff needs oil to be at about $100 a barrel to make the development of Hydrogen fuel feasible? Who knows? I do recollect that Bush referred to the immanence of the hydrogen fuel era in the State of the Nation address he made two weeks prior to the Iraq invasion.
So either the Poms are deliberately spoiling for the opportunity to whack the oil price to $100 a barrel; thereby accelerating the rate at which the world moves towards alternative fuels, while still convinced the idea is impossible; or they have been busted for taking liberties. Chaos theory which I broadly favour over conspiracy theories as you well know, favours the 'fuck-up' theory- The Poms were taking liberties, got careless, got busted and are now well and truly snookered: Iran 1 Poms nil. Phony Haire: Blusterman- blusted.
It is intriguing that Sky television after a day or two of sabre rattling rhetoric on the subject of the 'hostages' has now been running hours upon hours of 'remember the Falklands' nostalgia; reminding the Pom public what a good fight that was, just when everyone thought the old bulldog had lost its teeth.
One suspects that we are slowly moving to a denouement over the hostages. If the Pom leadership, specifically Blair, don't have the balls to take the incident to the ultimate conclusion: the savaging of Iran-then they should apologise for being silly with their troop deployment, eat shit and get the hell out of the Middle East before they are more humiliated than the Israelis were by their unbelievably incompetent assault on Lebanon last year.
Somehow I have difficulty in picturing even Phony, doing the latter. I never quite forget that these Blairites are of the same class who sacrificed one of their [Pomland's] most beautiful cities [Coventry] in November 1940 to protect the bigger picture. Wasn't it Haig who said something like they've got ten million and we've got eleven so they'll run out before we do? Let's just hope that whatever they decide to do is executed with far more competence than this current abortive Iraqi disaster.
Lyndon Johnson later made similar remarks about having more troops than the Vietnamese and look what happened to his theory. Currently I estimate that the Jihadists are running at about 50 dead per suicide bomber - this means that if there are forty million middle-eastern suicide bombers they could in principle eliminate the European Union. On the other hand perhaps if Iran had something substantive of their own to worry about they may become less involved in the Iraqi's affairs and the Iraqis could perhaps begin to get their own beast under control.
People who use people as bombs and as toys have to be put down and sometimes you need a firebreak to stop an oncoming bushfire. History has never been kind to people who lose courage and fail to take the steps they have to take to protect their interests- one only has to be witness to the current whining amongst one of our own home-grown former Possessor classes* to see the truth of that statement. The Jihadists are convinced they are on a sixth century rampage again, presenting the sacred words of the beloved prophet to the infidels without. Commercial logic suggests they should lose access to their oil for a decade and then have to compete with the new technologies for a slice of the fuel market. When people have too much ill-gotten wealth they lose sight of reality. Losing some or most of it might focus their minds on the current world and help them leave the next one for people who live on mountains and say things like: Troops die, villages die, trees regenerate- summer comes.
Happy blogging
* Refers to South Africans of Afrikaner descent who have just woken up to the fact that they are in a terminal squeeze to nowhere.
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