Just a Photo of the last Citizens' Weapons Inpection At Devonport Dockyard On 5th April 2003 - but there was only fifty of us then so make it more next time on the 24th May.

Yes I mean it

Plymouth Labour Leader, Tudor Evans, was returned back as leader of
Plymouth City Council in the May 1st elections. Evans - a political
whore who will do anything to catch a vote - campaigned with T&GWU
leader Alan Swales on behalf of DML to secure the Trident contract
back in 1993 (they called it 'the people's bomb'). Council tax
payers money and union funds (supposed to have been for
diversification away from militarism in the Dockyard) were used for
battle buses to whip up hysteria to get the Trident contract rather
than Rosyth. So don't go believing our task here in Plymouth may be
easier now because people think the 'good guys' are in control
again - probably more difficult if anything.

Evans the Benign was a member of CND and Plymouth United Peace
Action (PUPA) back in the 1980's because it was trendy although he
was always a 'multilateralist' to 'win ground' as the 'expert'
professional argument went back then. Of course, wise-cracking Evans
is full of hot air and always has been. He hates me for keep pointing
out all the things that amounted to nothing including all the jobs
and prosperity we would have in Plymouth as a result of Trident and
other 'partnerships'. Even many of the DML workers, who cracked open
bottles of champers just after the contract was secured, were made
redundant only a year afterwards. Now Evans is back with his hot air
again claiming he discovered £5 million hiding away for schools
although nobody is convinced least of all the schools themselves.

Banning The Bomb, Outsiders And The Tortoise & The Hare.

I presume that most people are familiar with the fable of the
Tortoise & The Hare and of the proverb arising from it of: `more
haste less speed'. Also of the reggae song, which states `one step
forward, two steps backwards – down in de Babylon'. The author of
the Tortoise & The Hare, the classical Greek Zeno of Citium who was
both the first physicist and the first anarchist, seemed to know
precisely what it meant both in terms of physics as well as socio-
politically because he was holistic. Zeno only became a Greek
because he had been shipwrecked and therefore saw himself, as an
outsider whom he believed was freer than depending on the Athenian
polis. And this was what he based Zeno's Republic on as a critique
of Plato's Republic - of representation and professional altruism -
in favour of federal participation.

I came to agree with this philosophical position (and with anarchism)
since, although I was born in Plymouth, I have always felt like an
outsider here but also feel that this gives me more political
cohesion. Also my introduction to the political world, forty years
ago now, was with the issue of banning the bomb or nuclear
disarmament. Therefore, I have witnessed the analogy of the Tortoise
& The Hare more with this campaign than with anything else – although
I do see evidence of it everywhere all of the time and in
everything. As far as I am concerned I wish to ban the bomb and I
believe that if everybody involved agreed with this consistently then
it would be gone by now. Always people tell me that I am naive and
wish to rush things which I think is pretty ironic given the whole
picture. Also I am told that I do not see the whole picture and am
a `single issue person'. For a start, I can't have my finger in
every pie as it's impossible and those politicians who try to do so
are biting off more than they can chew.

How can anyone run the town, run the city, run the country and run
the world? It's nonsense and always has been nonsense. Those who
feel compelled to control and manipulate others can generate fear and
insecurity with adoring flunkies to groom their precarious egos but
they cannot organise a piss up in a brewery at the end of the day
which is why they are politicians. As for altruism –well it simply
does not exist and the sooner people come to terms with this then the
more altruism there will be in society. Then even society will begin
to exist also instead of it being a reflection of the state, which
really is a metaphysical construct that will, I believe, use these
weapons of mass destruction wholesale eventually. The Ultimate
Paradox from Xena Evil May

This was once a proud monument of classical Greek civilisation but now corrupted like anything else. What do we learn today from these historical mistakes?