Paranoid

But am I paranoid though? Get ready for the rant of all rants: several micro-rants in one post. These will be elaborated on in their own posts later on.

How many times have you been told to colour inside the lines? How many times have you been told to cut your hair, to tuck your shirt in, or to sit up straight? But more importantly, how many times have you ever questioned that? How many times have you considered that maybe, just because another human being has been hired to educate and protect you for 7 hours a day, that this human being has no right to tell you how you can or can't look. But that's just at a school level. Let's expand on that, shall we? Leave school, what next? Sure, maybe the law is fairly justified. Not too many laws I can think of that breach your personal rights. But what about the bullshit that we all know as "social conventions"? Perhaps more suitably known as "the norm". This "norm" is the problem in everything we do. Want to not give a shit how you're dressed today? Get ready to be sneered at by a judgemental bitch with a chihuahua in her Chanel handbag. FUCK THE NORM. And who wants to take a stab at where the norm comes from? That's right, that 7-headed dragon rising up out of the water, THE MEDIA. The people sitting around a desk deciding how to manipulate your mind into giving them your bank details. Mind you, it'd be tough work. They'd need to scour the country for the next teenager to glorify, the next teenager to vilify, the next Prime Minister to defame and the next Prime Minister to set up...

So why the complacency? Why is everyone so fucking happy to blindly obey? I suppose it's easier to walk when you're being pulled. The media's not the only issue. Look at what a government is. $20 says your first impression of the term "government" is people who make and enforce the law. So let me pose the question: what do you call a body of people who lie, cheat and steal their way through everything, who consistently lie to the people they're meant to merely keep under control, and who are perfectly comfortable with making laws and rules that a majority of these people don't want made? What fits that last description? Last I checked, 64% wanted gay marriage. Pretty sure if you ask most educated people, they'd agree that a person fleeing a war-torn country should be allowed the opportunity to escape. The government has forgotten its job. A government is there to keep the people stable. It prevents violence, riot and corruption. Their job description has JACK SHIT to do with making very important decisions based on their own personal views and opinions. Yes, Tony and basically every other politician, I'm talking to you. What the fuck kind of democracy involves ignoring the common man and making decisions based on your own right-wing, 1920s, fascist beliefs? The fact that you're a Catholic should have absolutely NOTHING to do with how you run this country, because in this body of 23 million human beings, some of us aren't.

Now a brief glimpse at America's government. Let's try and count the atrocities their government has committed, and the lies it has told. Here are just some.

1. The First Philippine Republic - in the early 1900s, the U.S. captured the leader of a formally established democratic government by insurgent revolutionaries. The U.S. thereby destroyed a democratically elected government in a country that was not theirs.

2. The Canicatti Massacre - in 1943, the U.S. invaded Sicily. The town of Canicatti had already surrendered to U.S. forces, when 8 unarmed civilians looting a bombed factory for food and soap were massacred, including an 11-year-old girl.

3. Dachau massacre - the U.S. rounded up 50 or so German POWs at Dachau and proceeded to kill them with machine guns. Several SS guards who had surrendered were also killed.

4. The Biscari massacre - TWO instances of mass murder in Italy by the US, the first the killing of 36 prisoners who were unconfirmed to have been acting as snipers, some of whom were civilians; the other the murder of 35 Italian prisoners and 2 German guards on the way to interrogation for no apparent reason. 

5. Operation Teardrop - the brutal torture of 8 captured crewmen from a sunken German submarine. 

6. Several instances of the mass murder (30 upward) of POWs.

7. Several instances of orders given to take no prisoners.

8. To skip forward a bit... GUANTANAMO BAY.

Guantanamo Bay, if you don't know already, is a prison in Cuba established with the purpose of detaining terrorists. Of course, knowing the United States of America, not a SINGLE ONE OF THOSE PRISONERS WAS A CONFIRMED TERRORIST. The flag-praising, Uncle Sam-blowing, propaganda spreading counter-Nazis take in suspects, and put them through humiliating and brutally torturous punishments. There's blatant torture and several other humiliating things. This was, of course, the Bush administration. So there was a bit of outcry when it was revealed that this shit was going down. To appease the masses, Bush said he was shutting down the institution. This obviously worked. But, keep in mind, I said he told them he was shutting it down. That hell is still open today. Several prisoners were and may still be (I'm not sure) on a hunger strike. So they were put into force-feeding. Which is worse than it seems. If you want an idea, check out a video where Mos Def voluntarily undergoes the force-feeding procedure. He had to stop because of the pain before the feeding part even took place. This is, I reiterate, being done to SUSPECTS. None of them have ever been confirmed. They're, to put it bluntly, being put through this because of their country of origin.

Which brings me back to my original point. Isn't that sort of racist propaganda meant to be outdated? Isn't the general idea that we don't lock up and endlessly torture people because of their nationality or skin colour? And why were the Americans so fucking complacent about being directly lied to by their President? THE MAN PUT IN POWER TO GOVERN THEM. TO PROTECT THEM. TO BE HONEST TO THEM.

I'm now going to quote Zack de la Rocha and post and write out the lyrics to a song by Rage Against the Machine to end this rant:

"if the same laws were applied to U.S. presidents as were applied to the Nazis after World War II [...] every single one of them, every last rich white one of them from Truman on, would have been hung to death and shot—and this current administration is no exception. They should be hung, and tried, and shot. As any war criminal should be."

Come on!
Uggh!

Come on, although you try to discredit
You still never edit
The needle, I'll thread it
Radically poetic
Standing with the fury that they had in '66
And like e-double I'm mad
Still knee-deep in the system's shit
Hoover, he was a body remover
I'll give you a dose
But it'll never come close
To the rage built up inside of me
Fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy

Movements come and movements go
Leaders speak, movements cease
When their heads are flown
Cause all these punks
Got bullets in their heads
Departments of police, the judges, the feds

Networks at work, keeping people calm
You know they went after King
When he spoke out on Vietnam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot

Yeah!

Yeah, back in this
With poetry, my mind I flex
Flip like Wilson, vocals never lacking that finesse
What have I got to do, what have I got to do
To wake you up
To shake you up, to break the structure up
Cause blood stills flows in the gutter
I'm like taking photos
Mad boy kicks open the shutter
Set the groove
Then stick and move like I was Cassius
Rep the stutter step
Then bomb a left upon the fascists
Yeah, the several federal men
Who pulled schemes on the dream
And put it to an end
You better beware
Of retribution with mind war
20/20 visions and murals with metaphors

Networks at work, keeping people calm
You know they murdered X
And tried to blame it on Islam
He turned the power to the have-nots
And then came the shot

Uggh!
What was the price on his head?
What was the price on his head?

I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard a shot
I think I heard, I think I heard a shot

Background: black nationalism
He may be a real contender for this position should he abandon his supposed obedience to white liberal doctrine of non-violence and embrace black nationalism through counter-intelligence it should be possible to pinpoint potential troublemakers
And neutralise them

Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!
Wake up!

How long? Not long
Cause what you reap is what you sow