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MILLIONS OF JINGOISTS!

A. Noid. | 13.09.2005 16:56 | DSEi 2005 | London

Jingoism is more important than killing people for profit.

While millions of jingoists were feting 11 ball game players in Central London, a small group of demonstrators protested against the outrageously massive Arms Fair at the Excel Centre in Docklands, virtually unnoticed. An ironic touch on TV was illegal warmaker Tony Bliar smilingly shaking hands with the cricketers in Downing Street.

On my way home I noted the massive police encampment on the south side of Connaught Bridge. They must outnumber DSEi demonstrators several times over. This is how the State controls and dupes the People.

A. Noid.

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I agree

13.09.2005 18:53

I arrived at excel centre today at 3pm. There were EIGHT protesters and 50 police. Down the road were a samba band surrounded by copscum. WTF! I thought it was pathectic 2 years ago when only a few hundred turned up. People care more about a bunch of twats playing cricket than the future of this planet. I despair. Come on people-get down there tomorrow!

protester


Team Sports

13.09.2005 18:55

Come on, surely you KNOW the history of organised team sports. Once we were surfs, training in combat several times a week, so that if the Lord of our land required, or was required by his King, we would become instant soldiers to fight the battles of our Lord, or his King.

This method basically broke apart with the increasing growth of an urban population. Besides, modern organised armies could recruit and train their own forces, and having the normal population well trained in combat became a scary idea for those in charge (REMEMBER- today Tony Blair will send you to prison for having a realistic looking WATER PISTOL).

Anyhoo, if combat skills were NOT required of the population, MINDLESS JINGOISM most certainly was. Bit of a problem, though, when modern times meant that the actual enemy could not be predictated in advance. No point training your people from birth to HATE the French and LOVE the Dutch, if come the time of war, the French are our allies, and the Dutch are our enemies.

Luckily, the people themselves helped invent the solution- TEAM SPORTS. Team sports template a generic jingoism. People of low intellect (ie most of the male population) work themselves into a blind hysteria over events that actually metaphor the most idiotic and unreasonable aspects of warfare. They are, of course, simply being kept in a state of readiness for the real thing.

It should come as NO SURPRISE that the biggest story about Afghanistan in the States was not about the hundreds of thousands butchered by Blair and Bush, but about the fate of ONE American Football Player who joined up after 911 to murder Muslims (his stated goal). Amusingly, this sick moron was blown away by his own people (a fact that emerged after the world press told an endless series of lies about the guys heroic end fighting bravely to exterminate dark-skinned humans).

twilight


Boring

14.09.2005 08:16

What's wrong with supporting your national team?

Knobs

C Man


Scarey chemtrails over trafalgar square

14.09.2005 11:49

Honest.. didn't you see them?

Para Noah


THICK FUCKER SPEAKS

15.09.2005 13:29

People of low intellect (ie most of the male population)

Un like your self your eminence,could you please tell how i and the millions of thick fucks can reach the pinnacle of your towering interllect.I demed to know how you can pertain to be so great.

MR LUSTBATHER


This is why you people will never succeed

25.09.2005 17:49

You really dont understand, the lyrics of John Lennon's "Imagine" are just that, words. Not a viable political programme. -S

Sciamach


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