True horror begins to spread as
pictures of bodies are shown across the media. How can this happen to
our children? the questions ask. But the papers do not show the arms
dealers traveling with Theresa May to Saudi Arabia. Why do they hate
us ? We are not shown pictures of missiles and bombs raining down the
children of the Middle East. Theresa May appears on television having
chaired,. the Cobra committee , soldiers are on the streets and the
threat level is raised to "critical". Yet it is we who have
begun the process and when we ask why they are coming after our
children ? We are denied the truth by our media and politicians.
There is no parliament, no one to ask questions .This is a right wing
crypto fascists dream. The threat is external, the left silenced,
police are supported by troops and the media whip ordinary people in
a creeping demand for the suspension of basic liberties. Theresa need
not worry anymore about social care, about privatization , about cut
backs in the police force because everybody is looking outwards made
afraid and anxious. It's the perfect time for a landslide election
and she will have five years to do her worst. The military are on the
streets because 20,000 police jobs have been cut since 2010...it's
that simple.
The values that are hated are here.
They are carried by the arms dealers, by the cabinet minister
embracing Assad . The far right calls for violence and people fall
for the women behind the desk _ she invokes the "spirit of
Britain" and we line up like sheep. The tears we must shed are
for all children killed by landmines, by bombs and by the evil that
treats us all as pawns. We all see our children"s faces in the
dead, we all shed tears and a pall settles over us. But it is those
now claiming to lead us who began it all. Both we and the victims of
Manchester and Aleppo are as sheep to the wolves who rule over us.
The wolves allow the pigs of the authoritarian right to divide us and
separate us from those who suffer and cry as we do. They cut us off
from those whose children die by the arms made by British factories
and our arms dealers traveling with our leaders. From the dead
children in Manchester to the drowned children of the Mediterranean
and the little drowned boy on the beach: the cause is the same and
the culprits the same. Wake up and let the scales fall from your
eyes...think...innocent children will die in foreign lands because of
arms made here and sold by arms dealers supported by British
politicians like Tony Blair and Theresa May....
When a homeless man goes into the
devastation , when Muslim taxi drivers switch off their radios and
meters, when local Mancunians take in survivors ...I know that love
overcomes hate....and that vile politicians here and throughout the
world are removed.....I know another world can be made....it's
written on the walls of Manchester, Paris and Brussels ...another
world dawns
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