Scapegoating

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.

Poetry – Layers

Layers

Beneath the layers of the mundane

                Lie a multitude of others.

Levels of intrigue,

                Layers of lies,

                                Echelons of power.

Buffeted on waves.

                Ordinary life an illusion.

Stability

                A chimera.

We live a lie we believe.

                The invisible power struggle go on unseen.

Bacteria floating on a thin skin over a cauldron of lava.

The cynical underworld,

                Covert operations,

                                Manipulations of the state.

                                                Power games.

Black ops,

                Lawlessless.

                                Tyranny and control.

Civilisation a veneer.

                Pursuing the ordinary

In an illusory stability.

                Reality is more sinister!

Opher – 18.1.2022

We live a precarious existence; fragile creatures on the thin skin of the earth’s crust. Underneath us is an ocean of molten lava.

That crust splits, tears, erupts and shifts pouring forth fire, shaking the world apart and creating tsunamis.

The fault lines are not merely physical.

As we eat our Weetabix and prepare to pick up the newspaper gangsters are running protection rackets, planning raids, extorting, pimping, dealing and killing in a billion dollar industries.

Political and religious terrorists are plotting, The CIA, police and covert groups are running operations.

Governments are deploying tactics, troops and undercover operations.

We live ‘normal’ lives in the midst of vast power and intrigue.

Poetry – Ignorant savages

Ignorant savages

Ignorant savages

And psychopathic lunatics

Imbued with cruelty

And lust to inflict pain;

Using excuses

Of medieval texts

To justify

Their sadistic thirst.

Killing in the name of God,

Torturing for pleasure,

In vain hope of paradise.

If only Karma were real.

If only there was a just god.

Their ‘paradise’

Would be every bit

As horrific

As the hell

They create on Earth.

Opher 25.4.2015

Ignorant Savages

I wrote this following the spate of disgusting murders in Bangladesh carried out by barbaric, uncivilised, ignorant religious fanatics in the name of Islam.

They have taken to hacking people to death with machetes.

They feel it is their religious duty to kill all who do not believe in what they believe.

So far they have brutally hacked to death secular bloggers, university lecturers, westerners, people of other faiths, gays and people who have given up Islam.

In their eyes they are justified to mete out this inhuman punishment because god demands it through the selected texts they chose to twist.

They are planning to hack their way through 6.7 billion of us.

I do not understand this insane logic of intolerance, arrogance and cruelty. These insane imbeciles have no doubts and show no mercy.

They include the uneducated and brainwashed.

There is no place in the modern world for such depraved monsters from the Dark Ages. They blacken the name of Islam and religion. Their arrogant fundamentalist intolerance needs stamping out by the twin powers of the gun and education.

No sane god would tolerate such depravity or reward their viciousness.

If there is a god or karma they will all rot in hell.