Terror
Oppression and terror
Throughout the land
Blood on the streets
Blood on their hands
Hijabs in chains
In god’s name
Bullets from snipers
In the vale of shame
Opher 14.1.2026
For all the brave men and women standing up for freedom in the streets of Iran.
The oppressive corrupt power of religion.
May they not simply replace one set of despots with another.
The threatening rant of an evil domestic terrorist intent on murder!
“I’m Not Mad At You” – by Charlie Sykes – To the Contrary
Shot three times in the face for daring to drive away (as instructed!)
I’ve watched a number of videos of the incident. ICE just shot an unarmed woman in cold blood.
Jake Tapper delivers blunt fact-check to Kristi Noem’s false claim
Sure didn’t look like she was using her car as a weapon. The guy just shot her!!
What is going on in America??
Obviously she was turning away to drive off when the ICE thug shot her in the head.
Last night I listened to doctors talking about the Israeli tactics in Gaza, how they are deliberately starving the people and using food distribution as a way of murdering victims.
According to them the Israelis are then setting up just four aid distribution centres and then deliberately shooting young men. One doctor described how one day they aimed for the head, the next day it was the testicles, the day after the legs.
These soldiers have become so desensitised that killing and maiming Palestinians is a game.
Every day I hear word of more atrocities – babies starving to death, hospitals bombed, deliberate destruction of homes, shooting of innocent civilians, cutting off of water, using food as a weapon, hounding exhausted civilians from one place to another and the torturing of prisoners. One would imagine that survivors of the Holocaust, pogroms and centuries of unjust persecution would be more aware of the need for fairness and compassion. Revenge seems to have turned them crazy.
What Hamas did was atrocious. What Israel is doing is fifty times worse. I fear that Trump’s support of this far-right government is condoning war crimes and genocide.
It’s time the international community stepped in and put a stop to this insult to humanity.
I’ve been to most places around the world, including some danger zones – Egypt, Jordan, Oman and Israel. I’ve been to South Africa and Brazil. I’ve even travelled to the Iraq border and right through Mexico, through Zambia and Zimbabwe. The only place I’ve had a gun pulled on me is in the USA. That was before all this MAGA hate and the rise and empowerment of these gun-totin’ fascists.
When I lived there these racist extremists were a minority who were ridiculed and kept their heads down. Trump has empowered them. Now every slime-ball and moron with a gun has crawled out from under their rock with the view that they know better than everyone else and have a right to force their moronic views on everyone else!
The USA has become too dangerous to travel to. It’s like a third world country now. The education system is broken. It exports ignorance and superstition. The US is now a pit of conspiracy, arrogance and stupidity. America seems to breed racism, white supremacy and Nazis. Half of them still believe they are living in the frontier Wild West. This complete stupidity about the right to bear arms is insane. Every nincompoop, racist motherfucker with a chip on their shoulder, a psychological disease or emotional turmoil is armed with assault rifles! It’s nuts! Then there are the gangs, the religious nutcases and political extremists. The place has always been a hotbed of macho violence with dollops of race hatred and religious extremism but it’s taken a big step further into the maelstrom of lawlessness. They spout freedom but they mean conformity. Not only can’t you trust the police but you can’t trust the corrupt politicians or the courts. The only thing that is expanding are the prisons.
How do intelligent, educated, sane Americans manage to live there? The place is an insane asylum run by escapees from drop-outs-ville. The people setting the pace may be stupid and completely uneducated but that doesn’t stop them thinking that they know better than any expert in any field. Science has become a dirty word!
Into what was already a heady mix of insanity comes Trump and the MAGA movement. He has cynically assembled a confederation of racists, Nazis, white supremacists, conspiracy believers, extreme right-wing Christians, trailer trash and discarded working class into a fanatical cult, undermined all experts, science, the media, law, courts, government, education and all other institutions to create a furore. The only truth is MAGA and Trump. And Trump lies and makes everything up. What he is good at is undermining stability and rational sense, stilling up division and hate, and convincing the stupid that he has the answers to every problem. To do that he scapegoats, belittles and inflames.
Now the MAGA nutcases are flouncing around brandishing machine guns and threatening anyone who doesn’t agree with them. It’s mob rule! This is precisely like the blackshirts of Nazi Germany! The MAGA caps are the new SS symbol.
I love America! The most beautiful countryside in the world!
I love the sane American people! (at least the sane, educated ones)
I despise Trump and MAGA, the ascendency of stupid and the rule of violence.
Until the States have become civilised again I won’t be going back! It’s too dangerous! I might go to Afghanistan or Libya, Sudan or Yemen instead! They’re safer!
Nineteen Fourteen
It is twenty twenty two
But in Ukraine
It is nineteen fourteen.
Russia has unleashed
A reign of terror
Like we have rarely seen.
In Chechnya and Syria
They practiced
Their Evil art.
Firing shells and missiles
To blow
The cities apart.
They are digging trenches
One again
In European cities civilisation
Is down the drain.
Putin is gaily singing
Death’s refrain.
It is twenty twenty two
But in Ukraine
It is nineteen fourteen.
Russia has unleashed
A reign of terror
Like we have rarely seen.
Opher 22.4.2022
We like to think of ourselves as civilised – but we’re not.
We like to think we are intelligent – but we’re not.
We like to think that human civilisation has become advanced – but it hasn’t.
We like to think we have become wise and sophisticated – but we haven’t.
We’re still the same aggressive, violent, stupid, greedy, paranoid apes we’ve always been. We’re still the short-sighted idiots who fight.
Everything is a thin veneer.
Madness
Madness,
Stupidity,
Insanity!
Wars,
Forest fires,
Hunting!
Pollution,
Population growth,
Politics!
Who allows these leaders to get away with it?
Opher – 25.9.2019
Sometimes I think human beings suffer with mass insanity!
We elect psychopaths.
We do the most ridiculous, foolish things.
We are so cruel and thoughtless.
