Not a week goes by these days when I am not ashamed and disgusted by our politicians, and by the media they rely on. Take all the furore about the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the so-called Lockerbie bomber. A man who was convicted by a fairly dodgy court who ignored the lack of any real evidence and instead relied on the testimony of a (heavily US supported) so-called witness . That’s another issue, but it must not be forgotten that with a proper trial the man may not have been in prison in the first place. When can we leave behind all the old ‘eye for an eye’ crap and start behaving with some humanity. The guy will be dead soon anyway!
Now we get down to our own wonderful politicians and the intelligence of the British press. Some mention found somewhere or other of Brown saying that he did not want Megrahi to die in prison is being used as a political whip, mutterings of double – standards, and that human jellyfish (thanks Steve Bell) Cameron is calling for a public enquiry! What a bunch of idiots and they are either running our country, or soon will be. Our current elected government have totally forgotten that honesty is the best policy, especially when we have a press who will twist any piece of nonsense they pick up on to shout ‘Outrage’ and ‘Conspiracy’. And the main opposition lap along behind the media morons ready to run with any scrap of stinking shit they dig up.
Who is the most at fault here? One can’t help thinking that the press is largely responsible. The fact that they (you know which press I’m talking about) cling to an old-fashioned, elitist, paranoid and privilege based world view, means that any politician speaking the truth would probably find themselves in the hands of a brain-cell free lynch mob. And we don’t have any politicians that have the guts to be honest and declare their independent humanity.
But, at the end of the day, it is not the fault of these trashy, self-seeking newspapers. It is society itself that needs educating. When the great mass of people who make up this country can stop thinking of ’me, me, me’ and start to look at the bigger picture, that’s when we will see real change for good. If you look at the history of UK politics, the socialist movement was responsible for a lot of good things, the NHS, Co-operatives etc., whilst the Tories were always the ‘Me, Me, Me’ movement. That is no longer true. We now have several political parties to choose from, but they are all, essentially, good old fashioned Tories.
We really do need a revolution and every single one of us need to stop being so selfish and greedy and always looking to better OUR lot rather than society’s.
Ok – you can start throwing the bricks now…
Spooky how a deal with the Libyans for oil went through around the same time isn’t it….
Really…? Oh, I’m sure that’s not connected at all…
No of course not, you know me and my random brain mis-fires….
LOL – Carry on mis-firing
Yes, it’s weird how there are facts about the Abdelbaset al-Megrahi case that are simply ignored by the press. The Guardian included sadly, apart from a brilliant article by Paul Foot a few months back, no one has given an account of the gaping holes in the case against Al-Megrahi. I would have expected The Daily Mail to have been very vocal about this miscarriage of justice and exposure of double-dealing for oil, sadly their story was probably pipped to the front page status by “Britain’s got Talent Star in Cocaine fueled lobster fiddling sex romp”.
Yes – I remember Paul Foot’s article. Shame that just finding someone ‘guilty’ often does the trick for so many people. Still, who needs truth if justice has been seen to be done? And apart from whether he is guilty or not, he appears to be dying. Surely, decent folk don’t want people to die in prison? Maybe I’m just weird? And I wish I hadn’t missed that article about the lobster fiddling sex romp!