Kiddy Lines and Clichés

'Innocent until proven Muslim'

One of the things that kids used to love saying, I dunno, maybe they still do, is 'I can do what I want, it's a free country'. Even now, in relation to politics and revolutions, we often use the word 'freedom'. Why is it so important yet it remains so elusive? Not just in terms of actually gaining this thing called freedom but what it actually means. One person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter, typifying that the definition is not clear.  Free doesn't cost anything yet it is still being fought for (by people) and is so feared (by governments).

When we are finally 'free' like we are in good ol Blighty, we tend to follow the law senselessly anyway. 'The law of the land', another cliché we like to cite, especially when it comes to immigrants and bearded clerics who we barely register as human beings equal to ourselves. We regard 'the law' so highly, but lots of laws are shit. They are chopped and changed by shitty people when it suits them. Current government: let's change the law to make life more shit for the bottom but not for the top, because the reason the country hasn't got any money is because of the poor, oh wait, hold on, that's not right.... we've actually given all our money to remedy the bad investments made by millionaires, that is LAWFUL but over-claiming benefits is not. Yup that makes sense. Oh never mind, law is still really important, especially when Defence Secretary Phillip Hammond comes on Question Time and says if we don't like the law we should just change it, we meaning white men in suits who do not know about the normal struggles of normal people. That's how important our laws are, he says we should just change the law and chuckles.

The right-wing press and our right-wing government are baying for Abu Qatada's blood. They have already blatantly ignored the law of the land and our free country by keeping him in prison for a whopping six and a half years without charge. It has taken that long for the European Court of Human Rights to rule his detention unlawful, I could have told the government that in six and a half seconds, not that they did not know his detention was unlawful. Now he has paid by losing six and a half years of his life because of the nature of our free country, a prolonged justice system. Not only has his detention proven we don't need Guantanamo to ignore the laws of our land but the government also want to deport him, because of the huge symbolism that would represent; that WE are in charge of our borders and not Brussels/ Strasbourg or whoever else can be possibly blamed for our 'problems'. If you are brown/black and especially bearded, and you don't like our country you can get out! proving that we still have not moved passed the 'let's just move all the criminals to a country we don't care about (Australia)' theory. Our government are bullies, and as much as they can try and infuriatingly and patronisingly deny it, they have still not moved on from their colonialist tendencies. WE can go into other countries and basically do what we please, or even put a stranglehold on their economies from the safety of our free country but if one 'hate preacher' comes to our country and denounces us, Cameron forbid!

It is obvious that 99% of governments are more into the glory and symbolism of being able to kick so-called extremist clerics out than real governance, but if we really had to fear him, wouldn't it be best to keep him here and keep an eye on him? Until they can kick him out (pshhh we'll see), that is exactly what they are going to do, enforcing a 22 hour curfew, a phone, internet and Mosque ban on him, which will inevitably be ruled illegal anyway. If there is anything that would make me want to terrorise, it would be exactly what they are doing to him, no? Proving that mind over matter is only right to a certain extent. But how oh how would the government be able to avoid the inevitable headlines such as 'Qatada is costing the taxpayer millions'? Hmmm it's a tough one, let's just pass him onto our Western puppet, sorry I mean buddy, and then we can rub our hands of him and claim a victory against terrorism. Terrorism, that thing we were fighting remember? In order to preserve the law of the land and our free country.

Right-wing Daily Maily reading apes are in agreement that this country is a bit of a joke, but for totally different reasons, the top rated comments on the Abu Qatada story include,

'If the horrible creature refuses to recognize the western culture surely he should refuse their protection on principle? He obviously is a hypocrite and a fat ugly one at that.'

'Just DEPORT the nerd,i have to get up 6 mornings a week on just above minimum wage to pay my taxes for people like him to live in comfort.I have not had a holiday for three years for my three children and wife.Come on lotto please get me out of this country.'

I started to write about these comments but where do you start?! Of course the worst rated comments luckily remind me that there are people who have common sense in my beloved country.

'Actually, the case against Abu Qatada is very weak. I mean, I don't like the things the guy says, but I also don't like a lot of things other people say, so should they all be locked up too? There has been NO EVIDENCE ever provided where we can see or hear him telling people to kill Jews, or kill Brits. So until someone shows me the evidence, he is innocent, because unlike my fellow brainwashed Brits, I don't believe all the nonsense that the politicians and media pump into our minds to keep up perpetually scared.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2100070/Abu-Qatadas-release-imminent-Downing-Street-says-considering-options-remove-him.html 

 

 

An open letter to William Hague

Dear Mr Hague

I am born and raised in Britain, I like to have a good moan and all the rest of it but (cliche time) at the end of the day I love my country. Not in an overtly patriotic way because I'm English and frankly we find that embarrassing.

Every country has its problems but we have a lot to be grateful for, the pinnacle of true justice; relative freedom and democracy. Although I bear no grudges against the Queen, and I don't normally make a habit of abusing pensioners, I am glad I am able to say fuck the queen! Without being imprisoned for 20 years (*cough cough* Thailand).

The NHS isn't perfect but even if we are living on the breadline we do not have to necessarily worry about becoming ill because seeing the doctor is free bitches! I have been on forums in the US and the fact that they are on a forum consulting strangers on the net about the state of their health because they cannot afford to see the doctor or buy health insurance is thankfully an alien concept in Britain.

We don't have a reputation for being the friendliest but once you do have a chin wag with most people one on one, you find that most people are good people.

I am even grateful for our legendary 'terrible' weather, bear with me for a second! This year especially, has seen so many devastating natural disasters around the world, and even though our summers last about 2 weeks long and are in the wrong month we should be grateful that, touch wood, we rarely if ever experience truly terrible natural disasters.

We may also have sections of subtle and not so subtle bias media. But it is generally free and compared with other countries 'news' stations like Bahrain, North Korea and even America's revolting Fox News, dare I say it, I am even glad to have the ignorant and hateful rantings of The Sun.

Our strange hybrid government is still nowhere near as bad as some other European countries where the far right parties are deemed credible enough to have seats in Parliament.

I am grateful that when you fall on hard times that there is help such as job seekers allowance and hostels for vulnerable people. There is a lot of things to be grateful for in Britain, and although I will always speak out against something I perceive as wrong, I do heart my country.

My questions are; why are we joining in on the I hate Iran brigade? Or whoever is politically convenient at the time or whoever is not a Western puppet? We are putting sanctions against a country thousands of miles away that has nothing to do with us, we make their people suffer and then you are outraged that the Iranian people storm our embassy? We engage in hypocrisy in the Middle East and now they don't like us? NO SHIT SHERLOCK, you are lucky storming our embassy is all they've done.

Surely we the British people are more important than the US and whatever Pro-Israel lobby you are trying to appease? Your behaviour just conforms to the old adage of imperialistic behaviour. The worst ex-colonialists; the Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, have left their colonial pasts back in the ashamed past where they should be, I think it's high time we did too. Everyone can see through the spin and you do not care about any civilian in the Middle East so save us the bullshit and keep your beaks out of their nuclear plants. They say whoever does not know history is doomed to repeat it. Surely your private school education taught you a bit of history? So why are you repeating it?!

We are not the centre of the world, neither are we America. Even though we have foolishly followed them on every foreign escapade, we've still somehow managed to not be as hated as our American counterparts. So my undying question is Mr Hague, if you love this country as much as I do, why are you trying so hard for us to be hated?

Eagerly awaiting your honest reply,


N.E.E.T.

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