What needs to happen to Trump!!

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America needs to knock the treasonous criminal for six!!

Lock him up!!!

Poetry – The Story of Fascism

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The Story of Fascism

It starts with fear and hatred

Of the outsider,

Of all who are different.

It proceeds through blame

To attribute the wrongs

To the chosen targets.

It creates simplistic panaceas

Of black and white.

It is idealistic.

If only these problems

Were addressed,

These people removed,

Perfection could be achieved.

It operates through an air of superiority

Through arrogance and certainty.

Only some are worthy.

There is a hierarchy of evils.

There are means to an end.

Power is the vehicle.

Morality is shelved.

The solution requires

The methodology.

Compassion is a weakness.

It is a cancer.

It is a cancer.

It is a cancer.

That cancer is destroyed through the chemo of education, love, friendship and the final recognition that we are no better than anybody else.

We are all one, all equal.

If we work together we are stronger.

Opher 11.12.2017

It seems we are always going through this cycle where we embrace this ideology of fascism. We are going through a phase. The right is on the march. Populism, with all its ugly hate and fear, is a growing phenomenon.

Fear of Muslims. Fear of immigration. Fear of the outsiders. It seems to generate a response. That response is a great lurch to the right. Hysteria. Fascism.

We’ve fought wars to rid ourselves of this scourge but still is regularly arises.

These people see themselves as warriors standing up for the purity of their race. They feed off the stories that generate fear and hate. They exaggerate and invent the horror stories until the minds are clouded and the defence mode is paramount.

Woody Guthrie had a sign on his guitar – THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS.

Yes – that is true. You kill fascism through education, intercourse and understanding. Music is more powerful than bullets.

The Creation of a Fascist State – Please sign the petition!

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First step – draconian suppression of all opposition and control of the media.

Embarrassing the government should not be a crime | 38 Degrees

Poetry – Time to make up your mind

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Time to make up your mind

What sort of world do you want?

How are you going to vote?

Time to make up your mind!

There are fascists on the streets,

Fake news on the web.

Time to make up your mind!

Men abusing women

Cops shooting men.

Time to make up your mind!

Kavanaugh an abuser?

Trump a lying fraud?

Time to make up your mind!

Brexit a disaster?

May a weak fool?

Time to make up your mind!

Greedy, selfish executives

And A/I on the wind.

Time to make up your mind!

27.9.2018

It seems to me that we are not very good at making up our minds. We tend to vacillate. We get caught up in the mood of the moment, to go along with the flow.

There is so much going on, so many issues that need addressing. There are so many problems and so many fools, manipulators and self-servers who would love to convince us that they have the answers.

They don’t have the answers. I think they are using us.

Poetry – Brexit Blues

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Brexit Blues

I’ve got the Brexit Blues

And the Trump grump

Being fed the toxic news

By the great orange chump.

Divide and rule

The faithful get their dues.

Dismantle all that’s good

The victors get to choose.

Billions gone

At the stroke of a pen

Through the caustic lies

Of power-mad men.

I’ve got the Brexit Blues

And the Trump grump

Being fed the toxic news

By the great orange chump.

Opher 23.6.2018

We’ve been led up the garden path by power-mad men who have duped us with their lies.

They work on fear and hate, target certain groups – immigrants and Muslims this time – and create division.

Their actions will cost us dear. Already Brexit has cost us billions. It will make us all the poorer.

This is the face of the new populist fascism.

This is the Face of Brexit!!

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Ban the Racist Bastards Booing antiracism!!

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Let’s not pussyfoot around!! We’re either against racism or we aren’t!

If a bunch of racist thugs want to boo when sportspeople take the knee they need kicking out! There’s no room for racism. Booing antiracist is the same as cheering racism!!

They are a bunch of racist scum!!

We have the means to identify them! They aren’t fans. They are fascist scum! BAN THEM!!

Why is there even a debate????

Booing equals racism!!

The Boos of the Witless

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I have to ask what has gone wrong with our country? It seems that Brexit has empowered every mindless racist yob to come out from under their stones.

Booing an antiracist gesture is obscene. If I was a footballer I wouldn’t want to perform for such an unpleasant bunch of morons!

They make me ashamed to be British!

The Boos of the Witless | Twohundredpercent

Poetry – Flags, Anthems and Pledges

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Flags, Anthems and Pledges

Flags, anthems and pledges

Brainwashing instruments

That restrict freedoms.

Nationalist fascism,

Flaky around the edges,

Warlords and fiefdoms.

Tying us in to allegiance

To forces that exploit our desires.

Strangulating our freedoms

With their economic empires.

Consumer units under control

Slotted into the patriotic hole.

Opher 26.12.2017

As Samuel Johnson said – Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Patriotism, with its entire flag waving tribalism, is nothing more than a fiction to manipulate people by. It comes straight out of its partner nationalism and is the cause of much war and conflict.

Populist politicians use it to gain power. Businessmen harness it to gain profit.

It is visceral not cerebral and it panders to the gut rather than the brain. Many a brave lad full of ideals has been beguiled and used. Many a brave lad has returned with his legs blown off, his mind scrambled and his future in tatters all for the love of a notion of country. To quote the great Wilfred Owen (himself a victim twice over) – The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

Poetry – Election Blues

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Election Blues

Brexit and Trump are setting the scene

As crisis grips the world.

The fascists and right are on the march

As the liberal dream is felled.

There is a divide between young and old;

A divide between rich and poor;

A divide between leave and remain;

Between changers and hard-core.

The country is split as hatred rules.

No consensus is in sight

As arguments violently rage

Giving no glimmer of light.

Friend takes on friend with vile and bitter words,

Personal attacks and passionate abuse from computer nerds.

No idea how to heal the wounds that gape

To reconcile conflicting views and beat them into shape.

There is a divide between young and old

A divide between rich and poor

A divide between leave and remain

Between changers and hard-core

It is bridges that end divides – not walls

Talking is better than fighting –

Heed the calls!!!

Opher – 9.6.2017

There are always power-mad people who look to exploit everyone. They will lie and cheat to gain power and line their own pockets. They lead us up the garden path.

Fascism is an evil.

The scapegoating of those in need and the endorsement of division and hatred is deplorable.

I look towards a future which is outward looking and based on justice and freedom. I don’t want to be locked up behind walls. I want to be out there enjoying the differences.

Let’s break down the barriers and chose to live!