There is a problem with mass immigration that needs sorting out. Perhaps we should try looking at the wars, political persecution, extreme poverty and climate change that have led to it?
It is complex.
Fascists love mass immigration. They can use it to distract, divide and breed hate. In the 1930s it was the Jews who were scapegoated by the Nazis. They used the fear to divide and conquer. That resulted in a World War. Fascism was temporarily put back in its box.
In the 2020s it is Muslims and South Americans. They are portrayed as all being terrorists, rapists, drug peddlers, gangsters and murderers. They are robbed off all humanity. The vast majority are hard-working people, working in the fields or poorly paid jobs, who are just trying to escape from terrible situations. But fascists focus on the tiny minority to sow fear and hate. They live vby division and simple answers – build walls, threaten governments.
Meanwhile it’s the billionaires who are making hay, exploiting, manipulating and robbing us.
Osama Bin Laden set out to undermine and weaken the Western World with its liberal view of democracy.
He organised the flights that flew into the Twin Towers on the 11th September 2001 – 9/11. He couldn’t have believed how successful he would be.
Bush stupidly performed a knee-jerk response, declared a war on terror, and attacked Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan. (The real culprit was probably an extreme cult in Saudi Arabia).
This had two devastating effects:
We then suffered a number of further nasty terrorist bombings and Muslims, who had previously been integrating into Western culture, became radicalised.
We had waves of Muslims fleeing the destruction, bombing, discrimination and poverty.
Suddenly, the West was consumed by fear and was seeing mass immigration on a level not seen before. This was exacerbated by global warming making regions uninhabitable and extreme poverty driving desperate people to seek a better future.
Lo and behold, a bunch of extreme right-wing populists sprang up with simplistic answers. Instead of dealing with the causes of the mass immigration, extremism and terrorism (ending wars, addressing global warming and dealing with crippling poverty – which would have required huge funding and resources) they chose to stir up fear, divide, build hate and bring in simple answers:
Build walls
Ban Muslims
Mass deportation
Build immigrant camps that resembled concentration camps
They got themselves elected on the basis of fear of immigrants, racism, xenophobia, antimuslimism sentiment and nationalism. They stole from the 1930s Nazi playbook (replacing Jews with Muslims).
Seemingly, all these desperate immigrants were terrorists, rapists, murderers and drug dealers. They were (using Orwellian double-think) both taking all our jobs and scrounging on benefits.
The reaction to Bin Laden was:
Bin Laden succeeded in weakening the EU, weakening Britain, totally dividing the USA, bringing to the fore a bunch of totally incompetent leaders, wasting huge amounts of resources on wars, walls and repelling immigrants, undermining confidence, and radicalising a whole generation of Muslims.
Now the West is in decay.
The whole Muslim world has been driven back to the Dark Ages (with Kalashnikovs) with women back in hijabs and men with robes and beards all memorising sets of archaic verse.
Christian Evangelicals are equally busy brainwashing their kids with a different set of archaic verse.
The whole West is hugely weakened.
The whole world is poorer, less stable and in turmoil.
Bin Laden was more successful than he could possibly have dreamed!
Sweet Melodies
They play sweet melodies
Inside the electric fences of Auschwitz.
An orchestra of inmates
Driven to excellence
By the threat of terror.
They serenade the prisoners
As they are marched to death
With joyful tunes of carnival
To breathe with their last breath.
Notes rise in the air
To mingle with the smoke;
Rising above the putrid stink
That dissipates all hope.
Opher – 27.12.2024
I wrote this while watching the tattooist of Auschwitz. An orchestra serenaded the newly arrived as they went to be sorted. A bunch of Nazi troopers watched, eager to execute any that failed to provide the right note. They projected a gay, jaunty melody. Behind them the chimneys belched smoke.
The Flaw
There is a flaw
At the core
Of the psychotic ape
Great pain
In the brain
Of the fucked up primate.
Pleasure in agony;
Joy in destruction;
Pleasure in art;
Joy in construction.
The schizophrenic life;
Jekyll and Hyde strife;
Up and down, round and round;
Until we’re in the ground.
There is a break,
Genetic mistake,
Genome of the ape.
Mutated code,
Will explode
Every time we mate.
As we rampage
In the cage
Of this planet.
Shit in our nest
As we infest
This lump of granite.
Opher – 28.12.2024
I’ve thought long and hard about it. My conclusion is that we are too intelligent. We are always on the brink. We lurch towards insanity. Our supersized brains are at full capacity. We cannot handle the stress, constantly teetering on the edge. We topple into paranoia.
Humans are damaged goods.
We cannot cope with our own fragile minds. We’ve exceeded the bounds of sanity.
Our history demonstrates it clearly – violence, war, power, greed, betrayal, fear, hate, religion, division, defence, attack and insanity.
If the world was run on intelligence we wouldn’t have billionaires and starvation, war and crime; we’d have music, love, beauty, compassion and art. Paradise.
It is our damaged minds that create hell.
As an atheist, who not only doesn’t believe in god but thinks Religion has been the most destructive force in human history, responsible for more death, destruction, torture and hatred than anything else; that religion is based on fear and division; that American evangelicals are no different to ISIS Muslim Neanderthals; and that atheists have a higher morality, I thought this article was quite accurate.
People Who Don’t Believe In God Often Have These 15 Qualities Too
Buffy St Marie is a full-blooded Native American. She pours all her anger at how her people were mistreated into this song. This epic is one of the greatest!
This is a song that sends shivers through me every time I play it.
Never have the words run more true. At this time of the fascist corruption of Trump, Musk and the whole MAGA movement it is very true to say that My Country Tis Of Your People You’re Dying. All morality is being set aside, along with compassion and empathy. The environment is to be plundered. All that matters is greed and profit! America is a heartless business in which the bosses exploit the workforce. This is now the land of inequality, run by billionaires for billionaires. People conned, duped and fleeced. Profiteers run the media. Profiteers pour fake news and propaganda onto the internet. The social media has become the main method of control.
They spread fear, hate and division through mass of lies!
People are indeed killing anything good. The land of guns, hate and callousness. The land of destruction and gross exploitation. The poor and weak are dumped. The wealthy gloat.
It’s a land of racism, violence and shame.
Tis of your people you’re dying!
How on Earth have billionaires persuaded ordinary people to:
a. Vote them into power?
b. That they have the interests of ordinary people at heart?
c. That they care?
d. That Trade Unions are bad?
e. That fairness is wrong?
f. That equality is wrong?
g. That we can have a fairer society without poverty?
h. That the problem is immigrants not billionaires?
i. That it’s OK for a few profiteers to exploit people to become billionaires while people have to live and die on the streets.
j. That the rich deserve tax breaks?
k. That politicians are in the pay of the billionaires and earn millions?
l. That politicians are unaccountable?
m. That the poor are parasites?
n. That fair pay is unaffordable?
o. That it’s OK for them to own the media and spew out fake news, propaganda and scare stories?
p. That the lies they tell are the only truth?
q. That health care should be for the rich?
r. That education is unnecessary and should be defunded?
s. That the poor deserve to be poor?
t. That billionaires are geniuses who deserve their wealth?
u. That everybody can become billionaires?
v. That poor people are motivated by pay cuts and rich are motivated by pay increases?
w. That spending money on public services is a waste?
x. That giving money to billionaires is going to create growth and is good for the country?
y. That their country is better than all other countries and people?
z. That they deserve to be in power?
