we hold these truths to be self-evident ...

 .. that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, ...

  subtitle (with all due respect), what complete and utter bullshit!

-=*=-

From my admittedly poor recall, I think it was David G (g'day) who 1st alerted me to the error in the above.

It's only partly correct (a feature of lots'a (lying!) propaganda); for although there's equality in that every human born will sooner or later die, there's lots in between that's drastically *not* equal.

(As a not just BTW aside, it is this rather inconvenient truth, that all must die, that the religions of most concern to us are 'hung.' Specifically, they promise some sort'a 'life after death' for the so-called 'immortal soul' (utterly unprovable, also undetectable, both by definition) part. On the way, they (these religions) more or less promise some sort'a justice - after death, say. The more clever will appreciate that justice delayed - sooo long - is justice denied - absolutely, at least as far any non-believer is concerned. Justice, daaarlings, must be seen to be done.)

-=*=-

Now back on track; the most amazing binary splits occur, sorting people into us, we the sheople® on the one hand, and a so-called élite, aka 'rulers' on the other. These rulers may be of the political type or the commercial type - or a special sub-class, the military-command type. This ruling élite is the "military-industrial complex" warned about by Eisenhower, now extended by the integration of Congress (i.e. parliaments); what I refer to as the M/I/C-plex, which is 'served' by the mostly corrupt '4th Estate,' aka the venal MSM.

We the sheople can laughingly be called "The Mushroom Club" (as in kept in the dark and fed on bullshit. Har, har - but not really funny at all.) The 'dark' is caused by a corrupt education process - which fails almost totally to encourage any sort'a critical thinking, and hides the true history of the world - a history of almost unrelieved barbarism - behind a smokescreen of trivialities. The 'bullshit,' aka lies are served up to us by the (venal!) MSM. One of the worst, most cruel lies is that we live in democracies; this is a lie because our so-called democracies deliver us no real choice. In the US, UK, Aus & Israel, no matter who is elected, basically the same policies will be followed; Ta Ra! - namely, any number of variations of murder for spoil.

Of the three most basic requirements for a properly functioning democracy, to wit a) a switched-on, informed and engaged electorate, b) free and fair information flows and c) a meaningful choice of honest candidates, we have effectively none.

-=*=-

Then, to the 'rulers.' They have adopted the "Rights of Kings," namely the right to go to war, to rip us off; basically to drive the systems into the current catastrophic environment which we the sheople find our hapless selves in.

(As another not just BTW aside, the current 'market' system is built not on a "Fair go, ya mug!" - but rather on "Buy low, sell high;" in other words not "Cost plus a fair profit," but rather 180° in direct opposition, "What the market will bear." One might say "So? Nobody is *forced* to buy!!?" - but we the sheople have little choice; we've gotta eat, clothe and house - and drive, say, lacking better options. But no *must* vis-à-vis TV.)

It used to be (somewhere, perhaps only in hopeful imagination), "One rule for all," but it is in fact "One rule for us, we the sheople, and hardly any rules at all for the 'rulers.'"

And right there, we see how to fix this horrible mess: return, with no exceptions, to "One rule for all."

-=*end*=-

PS (Reprised) How? Just how can we save our once jewel-like planet?

a) Get a morality, see my attempted formalisation the chezPhil morality.

b) Demand honesty, from the MSM (AusBC!), from business and from our so-called leaders.

c) Demand honest representation (or devolve to direct citizen government - by CIRs, say.)

After all, daaarlings, it's 'only' our democratic right.

the sound of one hand clapping ...

 .. Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent?

-=*=-

Independent perhaps, but if so that'd only be one out'a four. (But what of that story, actually admitted via email, of intimidation? Ooops! Down to zero out'a four?)

-=*=-

The definition of a dialogue[1] implies 'more than one side.' But what if one side or other is criminal?

I don't like criminals, and I don't think they have anything (positive) to say.

I really shouldn't need to be specific about which criminals are 'in discussion' here, but if anyone has been 'out to lunch' (detested Ameri-speak; spit!) - out to lunch these past 5+ - or 60+ years, I speak of USrael, the entity formed from the US and its M/I/C-plex plus Israel and its I/J/Z-plex, 'melded' by the neoCon cabal, say, and M-W's Israel Lobby etc.. This entity demonstrates its filthy, dishonourable criminality daily by 'executing' its policies of murder for spoil; the US mass-murdering for oil in Iraq (not only; one place of many!) - and Israel mass-murdering for land and water in and around the mostly now ex-Palestine.

I found 'I, E, A & T?' in the run-up to B, B & H's illegal invasion of Iraq now turned brutal occupation, each ugliness more murdering than the other. (Vicious war crimes of Nuremberg severity.)

I beseeched "No war!" and bemoaned 'murder for oil,' all to no avail; Howard called us, we the sheople® anti-wars 'a mob' and disregarded our every entreaty.

But I stuck to 'I, E, A & T?' in the hope of finding similar souls, and making some progress - towards truth and justice, say.

I was frustrated in my attempts; various apologists, accessory/agitators and outright lying trolls impeded progress by indulging in distortions, disingenuity and outright dishonesty to provoke dissension, division & distraction in vile attempts at derailing worthwhile discussions; phew!

Extracting a single word from the preceding para, namely 'accessory[2],' we wonder how one can have a 'civilised' (aka CWA-style, jolly hockey-sticks etc.) chat with same, and in general, I won't. Talk to them, that is; they have, as I've said, nothing (good) to say. (Note that such advocates for criminality take on shades of criminality themselves.)

Imagine the frustration, then, when 'I, E, A & T?' not just tolerates the crooked side, but actively encourages, i.e. coddles(cuddles?) them.

Yuk! So who's listening to 'em? Not me. And not too many others, it now seems...

Under the principle, brought to our undivided attention by GWBush&Co (an entity of the utmost black, aka criminality), of "If y'ain't with us, yore agin' us," then 'IEA&T?' is not part of any solution, it's actually made itself part of 'the problem.' Sooo, if we are seeing its demise, we may say it's a bit'a 'natural justice,' admittedly only served on a minnow, whilst the 'big fish' are still raging 'free' - to plunder our once jewel-like planet.

While our world cries out for succour, 'IEA&T?' encourages the help-hinderers[0].

Now, who will remove the ugly blot that is USrael?

-=*end*=-

PS

Q: How can we liberate ourselves from this ghastly criminality?

A: Well, (a) get real, (b) rein them in, and (c) vote them out.

a) Get a morality, see my attempted formalisation the chezPhil morality.

b) Demand honesty, from the MSM (AusBC!), from business and from our so-called leaders.

c) Demand honest representation (or devolve to direct citizen government - by CIRs, say.)

After all, daaarlings, it's 'only' our democratic right.

-=*=-

Ref(s):

[0] the 'last standing' were not all goodies (haw!):

-----Thu, 8 May 2008 04:27:25
8 Eliot Ramsey
4 Fiona Reynolds
4 Paul Morrella
2 Kathy Farrelly
2 Richard Tonkin
1 BasilSmith
1 Craig Rowley
1 Jenny Hume
1 John Pratt
1 Scott Dunmore
-----Tue, 6 May 2008 20:52:13

[1] dialogue n. (US dialog) 1 a conversation. b this in written form. 2 discussion between people with different opinions. [Greek lego speak] [POD]

[2] accessory n. .... 3 (often foll. by to) person who abets or is privy to an (esp. illegal) act. [medieval Latin: related to *accede] [ibid.]

just whose country/planet is this, anyway? ...

 .. ask me no questions; I'll tell you no lies.

  subtitle: in conspiracy vs. cock-up, always favour the cock-up[1].

-=*=-

In arguably[2] the most monumental - and murdering - cock-up of all time, B, B & H 'sent' the US, UK and Aus (plus a few other psychophantic[3] odds'n sods, all collectively 'the koalition of the killing') off to disarm Saddam of his (non-existent!) WMDs, with which Saddam, in alliance with al-Qaeda (back then not involved/connected at all; each lie more unbelievable than the other), i.e. this wholly imagined concoction allegedly threatened the world in general, and Bliar in particular, him announcing his famous 45mins from annihilation.

935 lies have been collected and collated; undoubtedly there were more, see for example Howard's 'human-shredding machine.'

-=*=-

OK, I hear you mutter, so Q: why 'most monumental?'

A: Well, consider the following Q/A model:

Q: Why do crims try to rob banks?

A: Because that's where the money is.

Ha ha; but not really all that funny. However, following that model, a new Q/A:

Q: Why did they lie to us?

A: To conceal horrendous crimes - what else, daaarlings?

This, then, was/is the (evil!) genius of B, B & H, they and their hubris[4] have brought the whole charade undone. And what a monumental - and criminal - charade it is.

Because? Well, it isn't just murder for oil in Iraq that was disclosed, but further investigations reveal Israel's murder for land and water, and the (mainly US, some UK + minor others) globalized capitalism's rip-off resource-harvesting (aka "Economic Hit Men") scams, all together murder for spoil.

And again, not 'just' that; they, the filthily hubristic B, B & H enabled us to see that the very foundation of our nations, the much ballyhooed democracy - is a sham.

-=*=-

An aside on 'murder for oil.' In my blogging since 1st hearing of the utterly dreadful "Shockin' Whore" then being mooted for Iraq (with the equally chilling US grunts' "Let's go play in Iraq!" - in order to 'pink-mist' hapless collaterals), many have tried to nay-say the US' plan for eventual oil-theft, but none have disproved it. That is, in a nutshell, because it's simply not disprovable; it's what's gunna happen - unless the brutal occupation of Iraq is stopped, and US forces completely ejected. Make no mistake; it may well be, that the US is *partly* in Iraq to enable Zionist dreams of a "Greater Israel" to fester, but consider Sun Tsu[5], Ch#2 "... and how success requires making winning pay."

They (the US administration) said that Iraq would pay for its reconstruction via its oil revenues; but what they always tried to deny was what they planned all along: to grab the lot, integrating their filthy capitalism 'from the sand to the sea;' to suck as much oil - and $s out'a Iraq as they possibly could. One (possible) side-effect of this could be to 'control' who may buy the oil; so much for so-called 'free' markets. Finally, it only makes 'good' (rip-off!) capitalist sense, so denying 'murder for oil' is a crime of the order of denying the holocaust.

Once more for emphasis: it's simply inconceivable, that the US would do anything, let alone murder 100s of 1000s, if not 1.2mio+ Iraqis, if they didn't think they could make their crimes pay. That is, after all, exactly what (US-style, but not only US) capitalism is all about.

-=*=-

Now back on track: democracy. At this point, you might care to read (all!) of this, War Is a Government Program by Sheldon Richman.

(I doubt if all will read the cited article, so let's see; the following «text» is from the article:)

1. «War is politics.» {Me: Not too controversial...}

2. «Politicians start wars for political reasons. (This is not to imply that economic reasons aren't involved.)» {Me: Again not too controversial... and see 'economic reasons,' aka murder for oil.}

3. «Ruling classes hold power so that they may live off the toil of the domestic population.» {Me: Ooops! 'Ruling?' The shit, so's to say, has hit the fan. Further, 'live off' - what?}

"Houston! We have a problem!"

I reiterate: this is the (evil!) genius of B, B & H, they have let the cat out'a the bag, as mentioned above, our democracies are sham. Boo! Hiss!

To round this off, there are at least three prerequisites for a properly functioning democracy, 1) a switched-on (i.e. involved) and fully informed electorate, 2) full and free information flows and 3) a valid choice of honest representative-candidates.

As the illegal invasion of Iraq, now turned brutal occupation, each more murdering than the other - and the Israel debacle now 60+ years long, all examples of murder for spoil show, our so-called leaders are actually rulers, criminally exploiting 'the system' for nefarious purposes, usually self-enrichment.

(And speaking of debacles, what about Iemma's electricity fiddle?)

The crimes of our putative leaders (and the so-called shadowy élite) are hidden by the lies pushed/assisted by the (venal!) MSM - and the TV-comatozed sheople® doze on.

Is that (murder for spoil, etc.) honest?

Is that (rip-off capitalism) fair?

Shouldn't the crimes now be stopped?

It is said, that in a democracy, the sheople are sovereign.

Shouldn't we now move heaven and earth, to make that so?

-=*end*=-

PS How? Just how can we save our once jewel-like planet?

a) Get a morality, see my attempted formalisation the chezPhil morality.

b) Demand honesty, from the MSM (AusBC!), from business and from our so-called leaders.

c) Demand honest representation (or devolve to direct citizen government - by CIRs, say.)

After all, daaarlings, it's 'only' our democratic right.

Just whose country/planet is this, anyway?

-=*=-

Ref(s):

[1] cock-up
noun Brit. informal something done badly or inefficiently: we've made a total cock-up of it [POD]

[2] arguably
Øadverb
these criteria are exceedingly vague and arguably provide too much scope for judicial interpretation
POSSIBLY, conceivably, feasibly, plausibly, probably, maybe, perhaps, potentially; debatably, contestably, controversially.
[New Oxford Thesaurus of English]

[3] psychophantic, from psycho + sycophant:

psycho colloq. —n. (pl. -s) psychopath. —adj. psychopathic. [abbreviation] [POD]

sycophant n. flatterer; toady.  sycophancy n. sycophantic adj. [Greek sukophantes] [ibid.]

[4] hubris
n. arrogant pride or presumption.  hubristic adj. [Greek] [ibid.]

[5] Sun Tzu, The Art of War:

«Ch#1; Laying Plans: explores the five key elements that define competitive position (mission, climate, ground, leadership, and methods) and how to evaluate your competitive strengths against your competition.
Ch#2; Waging War: explains the economic nature of competition and how success requires making winning pay, which in turn, requires limiting the cost of competition and conflict.»

[wiki/Sun Tzu]

stark, raving mad ...

 .. invoking utter despair

-=*=-

The US of A is "The land of the free," no?

"Truth, Justice and the American Way!" - Right?

More of "Free:" free markets, and level playing fields.

-=*=-

But if you don't 'play the game' their way, they will kill you.

-=*=-

Today, 6May'08 is 2,429 days 'down the track' from the equally infamous and enigmatic 'trigger event' known as "9/11." Sooo, what's been achieved?

1. Some Afghani-sand was re-arranged, and the so-called legitimate government of Afghanistan, i.e. the Taliban (themselves not of good reputation), were routed and the country given over to a puppet regime. The fighting continues, invaders against locals. Apart from revenge (a temporary resident, namely one OBL, was thought to have been implicated in 9/11), there was a small matter of the US wishing to build a pipeline across Afghanistan, refer to the carpet of gold/bombs story.

2. Saddam Hussein, by accounts a cruel tyrant/despot (but sometime 'ours') has been executed - under the auspices of another puppet regime, itself a war crime. A minor detail, considering that the operation, "Shockin' Whore," was an illegal invasion now turned brutal occupation, each more criminally murdering than the other. The carnage is terrible - and also continues.

3. The nominal 'justifications' given by B, B & H revolved mainly around lies - 935 of which have been conveniently collected. Their central theme was WMDs, none of which existed - and they all knew that beforehand.

4. The true intentions are more realistically deemed to have been oil-theft (even if 'only' control over) and aiding Israel's quest for a "Greater Israel," all else being commentary (risible democratisation, say. The old saw: you don't free people by killing them.)

5. The true natures of the US, with 'junior side-kick' Israel are now perfectly clear to all who wish to see - and take the trouble to look.

6. As if all the above wasn't enough, both the incumbent US president and presidential hopefuls all threaten Iran with "All options!" - meant is a nukular Armageddon.

-=*=-

All the above, i.e. 1-6, run under the rubric of the so-called "Global War on Terrorism," aka GWoT, but who are the real terrorists?

Suicide terrorism is often alleged to be part-and-parcel of the so-called Islamo-fascist desire to impose a caliphate (including onto us, we of the Anglo/Judaic world.) All I can say, is that if you believe that - well, shame on you. See the reading list #10.

Or perhaps better, see someone's actual suicide-threat**.

Fazit: Unrealised expectations can lead to enormous pain, and so it is with Usrael, the entity formed from the US and its M/I/C-plex plus Israel and its I/J/Z-plex, 'melded' by the neoCon cabal, say, and M-W's Israel Lobby etc., and this entity is the worst criminal/terrorist the world has ever seen, and is ever likely to see. We the sheople® expected to get a peace-dividend after WW2. Didn't happen, instead we got the cold war, the very 1st act of which was the (war crime!) A-bombing of Japan. It is thought by many that the A-bombing was aimed as a signal at Russia - and so the cold war was created. Then, when The Wall came down, we again expected a peace-dividend. Again it didn't happen, we ended up with 9/11 (terrorist or black, false-flag op?) then with Afghanistan as warm-up, the rape of Iraq with Iran possibly next. The behaviour of USrael is not honest - not at all; the exact opposite. The world situation is now worse than at any time 1939-45, almost indescribably worse.

The US has approximately 5% of the world's population, Israel a vanishingly small %. The so-called élite controlling Usrael is thought to be less than 1% of that 5%. Both 'sides' of US politics are as good as indistinguishable, and Israel has never had a government without an (ex?)Irgun, aka Zionist/terrorist component. The US murders for oil in Iraq, Israel murders for land and water in all directions outwards from Israel, itself though by many to be an illegal state.

In addition to immoral & illegal wars, so-called globalised capitalism, mostly US with a UK component, rips-off world resources, paying scant and drastically insufficient recompense to the sovereign resource-owners. Criminality rules - and the excess-CO2 caused climate change, aka the greedastrophe® bears ever more down upon us.

Those who could possibly save us continue on their greedy, destructive - and mass-murdering theft ways.

-=*=-

Most of the world 'stands by,' apparently doing nothing.

Where are the other world leaders on this?

Where are the religions, the Churches?

Where are the honest sheople?

-=*end*=-

**PS the most ghastly suicide-threat of all time?

«...I interrupted her to say: "Prime Minister, I want to be sure I understand what you’re saying... You are saying that if ever Israel was in danger of being defeated on the battlefield, it would be prepared to take the region and the whole world down with it?"

...Golda replied, without the shortest of pauses for reflection, and in the gravel voice that could charm or intimidate American Presidents according to need, "Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying."»

[Alan Hart/Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews]

[Me, note:] Not so much a threat, more like a promise.

...NYT: «"We had better believe her."»

[ibid.]

[Me:] If that's all true - and, of course, I've no doubts whatsoever on that score, then that makes Israel THE BIGGEST, MOST DANGEROUS SUICIDE-BOMBER threat of *all* time.

Which rather destroys Israel's (and Lobby's) snooty insouciance, I would'a thunk. Plus a whole lot'a other ramifications...

-=*=-

Reading list:

1. "A century of War," Anglo-American oil politics, William Engdahl.

2. "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man," the inside story of how America turned from a respected republic into a feared empire, John Perkins.

3. "The Shock Doctrine," the rise of disaster capitalism, Naomi Klein.

4. "A Game as old as Empire," the secret world of economic hit men and the web of global corruption, edited by Steven Hiatt.

5. "Hegemony or Survival," America's quest for global domination - and the catastrophic consequences that will follow, Noam Chomsky.

6. "Rogue State," a guide to the world's only superpower, William Blum.

7. "Killing Hope," US military and CIA interventions since WW2, William Blum.

8. "The Great unravelling," the truth about crony capitalism, Paul Krugman.

9. "Stupid White Men," and other sorry excuses, Michael Moore.

10. "Dying to Win," the strategic logic of suicide terrorism, Robert Pape.

11. "Don't think of an Elephant," know your values and frame the debate, George Lakoff.

12. "The God Delusion," the irrationality of belief and the grievous harm it has inflicted, Richard Dawkins.

13. "Heat," how we can stop the planet burning, George Monbiot.

Merkel & Sarkozy fiddle ...

 .. while the planet burns: thanks (but "No, thanks!") to the US.

  subtitle: Merkel & Sarkozy learnt nothing from WW2.

-=*=-

"Don't try to fix what ain't broke!"

True conservatives preserve what's good and works, and dump what ain't good and don't work.

And so it was wrong of Howard (only one among many such wrongs), to construct opposition to an Or-stray'n republic, because the detested English monarchy is less use than a chocolate teapot (aka ain't good), and doesn't do a fing[1] for us (aka doesn't work.)

Moving on. The 30-year reign, of "Greed is good!" (it ain't) has also been shown not to work. Time for true conservatives to dump that as well.

Look around, at the state of the 'States. Shockin'. (As distinct from "Shockin' Whore," what B, B & H did to Iraq - now a brutal occupation equally as murdering as the illegal invasion itself.)

Getting back on track. The 'experiments' of Military Keynesianism, privatisation, globalisation and wholesale export of jobs, coupled to rip-off resource 'harvesting,' more "Greed is good!" (it ain't) and deregulation (and etc.s) - all these things have worked - in a totally negative way - to almost kill a once-mighty nation/economy. If nothing is done then the 'almost' is likely to be replaced by certainty.

Just as Howard didn't listen when we beseeched "No war!" so the politicians 'leading' the US don't listen. GWBush&Co understand only force - when their only weapon is the miliary hammer, then all problems look like nails. And so the US military breeds war. The contenders all scream "All options!" at Iran, threatening a nukular Armageddon.

There appears to be no way of the US getting itself out of its Sloughs of Despond, aka the quagmires that are Afghanistan and Iraq. As if that wasn't bad enough, the US daily threatens Iran with obliteration.

-=*=-

Well, it's gotta be stopped.

No, not by a revolution - the sheople® are just too TV-somatized.

A world-wide boycott, called by non-Anglo/Judaic leaders.

Not even needed to engage the dozing sheople.

Just get up in the UN and condemn...

condemn... condemn... condemn... condemn...

Over to you, Merkel & Sarkozy. And Putin (Medvedev), Hu Jintao - & Ahmadinejad.

-=*end*=-

Ref(s):

[1] fing = contraction of 'eff-ing thing.' Contrast with SFA.

urgent appeal to world 'leaders,' ...

 .. are you all mad? Insane? Simply lost it?

Note: This message is not addressed to the so-called 'leaders' of US, UK, Aus & Israel; we know that you are all mad, insane and have lost it - looong ago. At least by, if not before, the time that B, B & H demonstrated their (criminal!) insanity by illegally invading Iraq - "Shockin' Whore!" - now turned into a brutal, bloody, occupation. (Never softly; MURDER FOR OIL! Bastards.)

And as for Israel, much longer again, from '47-8, say. If not earlier, King David Hotel Terrorist Attack (1946) anyone?

-=*=-

Back to the non-Anglo/Judaic so-called world 'leaders,' I repeat: are you all mad? Insane? Simply lost it?

If you lot continue to sit on your (fat? Lazy? Corrupt?) arses, it won't be just you who loses it - but likely the whole, wide world, as the GWBush&Co crazies attack Iran.

See our link-wizard's latest ref here, to this.

(For those too lazy to look, get this: the US has already begun 'low-level' war-operations against Iran. But war is war; it won't be too long before it 'hots up.' And if the US goes nukular, that'll be very hot indeed. Kiss-your-arse-goodbye hot, even.)

So now, so-called world 'leaders,' it's time to pull your eff'n fingers out!

Phillip Adams on drugs ...

 .. and other fatal 'leadership' failures

-=*=-

1. Marijuana was not always illegal. Under prohibition, alcohol was made illegal - and created a crime-boom. Prohibition was subsequently reversed. But around the same time, marijuana was made illegal, and - Ta ra! - that created its own crime-boom, which continues to this day.

2. It is considered by many, that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol, vide the 'drink-driving' never-ending story. In any case, it is also thought, that marijuana has been used since yonks, without ending civilisation as we know it, either then or now.

3. Then, consider heroin. This could be considered to be where some defining line is crossed; heroin may well be termed unsafe drugs, equally as dangerous as unsafe sex; one can die from either.

Phillip Adams: «Forever afterwards, he would argue against our cruel and stupid drug laws.»

I'm not exactly sure of the relevance of Adams' mention of a young heroin addict's death today, but for me (and the world), the 'tragedy' is not specific to any single 'user' (dead or alive), but to our entire society.

-=*=-

There are at least two points to be made:

1. Despite more than adequate warning (everyone *knows* heroin can kill), some people still try it, and an unfortunate few go on to die from it. (Q: Why?)

2. The 'simple' answer to that 'why' is that *exactly because* heroin is illegal, its supply is both irregular and impure; the hapless user gets the wrong dose and WHAM! (actually, more of a whimper) - dead.

-=*=-

The process of dying from heroin could be called 'evolution in action.' The 'why' of drug-taking in general (alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, heroin, 'speed' aka ice; such a looong list) - is because that's what people do.

A note could be made here: drugs of any sort may be considered as a form of escapism. But exactly what is to be escaped from? Perhaps hopelessness; our rip-off oriented society, with globalisation shipping jobs - and with them, entire futures - overseas (and therefore out of reach), may have something to do with it. I mentioned nurture; there is no authoritative "Bringing up Baby" manual. Why not? So people are free to do it by their own, ill informed, trial and error? (With a lot'a error pretty-well guaranteed?) Then, add my perennial: TV. On the principle of "Monkey see, monkey do," over time TV portrays all possible perversions. People are 'free' to incorporate any peccadillo that suits into their 'life scripts' - and this may, often does, include the tendency to become a self-made victim, aka failure.

One of the 'principles' we hold dear, is that it's a free country.

Another way of saying that is "Fair go, ya mug!"

Nobody forces any druggy to take anything; surely one's greatest freedom is to be able to manage one's singularly, far and away most valuable possession: one's own life? (Refer also to euthanasia.)

And following so-called 'free market' principles, so-called 'pushers' are merely attempting to provide a supply to match a demand. That's also freedom, ain't it?

Sooo, following on from that's what people do, wouldn't it be clever - to clean up the drug scene? I don't mean try to put hapless users and their accompanying pushers in gaol, I mean make drug-taking safe: safe from crooks'n cops alike; by reverting to a non-illegal supply of pure drugs at known potency.

(Oh, yeah. Lets have a proper, authoritative "Bringing up Baby" manual. With rational, known-to-work dos and don'ts, including a proper morality to boot, see my attempted formalisation the chezPhil morality. And while were doing 'pie in the sky,' banish religion - at least until after "the age of reason," i.e. until any sprog has the mental ability to distinguish bullshit when s/he hears it. No more abusing immature children's minds, no more insidious corruption of the helpless and vulnerable young, no more sneakily insinuating an imaginary, life-long impediment to rational thinking.)

-=*=-

It may or may not be, that some so-called 'Islamofascists' "Hate us for our freedoms!" - but what of governments that arbitrarily convert our rightful freedoms to futile felonies? Boo! Hiss!

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Note to any relative of some dead druggy: consider that the 'victim' was not so much a victim of the fatal dose, but of his/her personality, i.e. genetics and up-bringing (nature, nurture) - plus the society in which we live, a society dominated by filthy rip-offs, hypocrisy and murdering criminals. Any relative of a dead druggy could consider that it was largely the lousy government policy that resulted in the regrettable death (see Adams' quote); policy coming from the same lousy governments (US, UK, Aus + Israel) that set out to mass-murder for spoil. In short: they don't care who they kill, just as long as the filthy fat-cat so-called élites, already rich beyond avarice, can get ever richer.

The utter, horrendous scale of the hypocrisy! On the one hand, these governments set out to make life miserable for a mere handful of otherwise harmless drug-escapists, causing concomitant collateral dead (that filthy word again: collateral), and on the other (thanks, but "No, thanks! " - to B, B & H) they set out to criminally mass-murder for oil in Iraq; 100s of 1000s if not 1mio+ dead, pink-mist slaughtered by the 'world´s best,' most dishonourable militaries.

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There is no doubt in my mind that pernicious, Draconian drug laws create far more problems than they ever purport to prevent; just how clever is that?